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Tashkeel

http://www.tashkeel.org
Established in January 2008, Tashkeel is an independent resource for artists and designers living and working in the UAE. Tashkeel is committed to facilitating art and design practice, cross-cultural dialogue and creative exchange. Placing the artist at the core, Tashkeel supports the UAE’s creative community through studio facilities, artists’ residencies, international fellowships, a programme of exhibitions and events, as well as recreational workshops.
Chris Weaver and Fari Bradley

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CHRIS WEAVER is a sound artist and audio hardware hacker, whose live performances and works range from Glastonbury to The Wellcome Trust. A founder member of the electro-acoustic ensemble Oscillatorial Binnage. he has performed with musicians as diverse as Knut Aufermann, Luke Fowler, Lepke B and John Paul Jones. He worked as Production Manager on the UK's first independent art-music radio station Resonance104.4FM as well being the musical director of the station's Radio Orchestra for ten years. He lectures at the London College of Communication on the Sound Art BA course and has held numerous workshops internationally on arts-radio, hacking and electronics. Recent broadcasts include the 5-hour live radio artwork Suspension of Belief a piece involving rock climbers, musicians and narrative text, and the piece Overhead (both in collaboration with Ed Baxter) commissioned by Arika for the ‘Kill Your Timid Notion’ Festival 2010. Weaver was named 'Sonic Artist of the Year' by the British Academy of Songwriters in 2013 and his work was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 for the awards.
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FARI BRADLEY is an Iranian-born broadcaster and sound artist with a musical background, based in London. She is an active member of the UK's independent art-music radio station Resonance104.4 FM, where she promotes art and culture from the Middle East and North Africa through her radio show, Six Pillars to Persia. For ten years Bradley researched experimental and fringe dance music genres for her radio show Free Lab Radio on Resonance104.4FM. She has DJ’d live in venues as varied as museums (National Portrait Gallery, ICA London), galleries, squat parties and established music festivals and art fairs such as Glastonbury, Exit Festival in Serbia and the Art Dubai closing party (2013 and '14). As a composer and improvisational performer, commissions include pieces for London's Architecture Week, Victoria and Albert Museum and South London Gallery. Other commissions include works for the Barbican, live pieces for the Venice Biennale in 2012 and 2013, British Council, Frieze Projects, London and Gasworks, London. Bradley was previously selected as an Embedded Artist by Sound and Music, the leading body for sound art and composition in the UK, through which she was awarded a year's residency at no.w.here, an artist run cine-film project space in London.
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The New Media Residency is an 11-month residency programme established by Tashkeel, a contemporary art organisation based in Dubai committed to facilitating art and design practice, creative experimentation and cross-cultural dialogue. Running from Summer 2014 to April 2015 as part of Tashkeel’s Guest Artist Programme, the initiative is aimed at providing artists with time to develop their practice in an environment that encourages the exchange of ideas through practice and experimentation. Drawing on the expertise of prominent curators, critics and practitioners in contemporary art who are familiar with the region, the advisory committee selected sound artists Chris Weaver and Fari Bradley in the first quarter of 2014. During their residency, the artists are integrated into the education and professional development programmes at Tashkeel as well as being supported on their own projects. From August the artists started programming with the ‘feral’ choir training and in September they are curating a series of talks and screenings on sound art at Tashkeel. In November 2014, the artists will take part in the 20th International Symposium for Electronic Art (ISEA2014), both with an installation and presenting a paper on Audible Phenomena in the Everyday (Bradley). In January 2015 they will present a solo exhibition at Tashkeel, with their residency culminating in April with a publication and further projects planned during the UAE’s art season in March.
Workshops
Build Your Own Cracklebox
Workshop Instructor: Chris Weaver and Fari Bradley
Description: The Cracklebox is a unique battery-powered electronic instrument invented in the late 1960s by Michel Waisvisz of STEIM (the STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Holland). The instrument has no keys or dials – it is instead played by touch alone, with the performer becoming part of the circuit. Artists Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver present a Cracklebox building workshop, participants will learn how to create personalised DIY versions of the original STEIM Cracklebox, exploring the effects of circuit modifications, different touch contact combinations, and interfacing with computers via audio software.
No previous electronics experience is required.More information about the original Cracklebox can be found here: http://www.crackle.org/CrackleBox.htm
Details: TBA
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Variations For Rooms and a Tone
Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver
Variations for Rooms and a Tone is an ongoing work that oscillates between performance and installation. The work explores the relationship between architecture and sound, using only the natural and resonant frequencies of a space.
Every built environment has a unique sonic identity defined by its architecture, building materials, furnishings, temperature, humidity, physical presences and many other variables. The sonic identity is made up of the site’s pre-existing tones which are enclosed within the structure or building and then activated by the artists. This results in a sonic ‘self-portrait’ of the space built up from the sum of these variables, which can change at any particular point in time. Each room plays its own sounds back to itself, looping continuously and seamlessly – this feedback explores the innate musical possibilities of the interiors by drawing them out in a slow, delicate manner and in a series of long, even and uninterrupted tones. As the resonant properties of a building are never identical, each installation is unique and highly site specific. Similarly, each live and performative aspect of the work is particular to the venue and location.
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