[RII-II] Simon Whetham – She floated away

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Second issue of the second season of “La Rivière” CD series, “She floated away” by Simon Whetham is a new work from, and inspired by the series of recordings made around the Taurion Valley .

Photographs by Yves Lapeyre

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Simon Whetham

Simon WhethamSimon Whetham has been capturing and composing with field recordings since taking part in a research trip to Iceland in 2005.
Since then he has been gaining a steadily increasing profile: exhibiting in Iceland; recording in the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil; performing at a large number of festivals and events, both nationally and internationally; having work accepted for release by labels Trente Oiseaux, 1000fussler, Mystery Sea, Entr’acte, Install, Lens and Gruenrekorder; commissioned by Creative Labs to build a surround sound installation to demonstrate their equipment and software; commissioned by painter Kathryn Thomas to compose a surround soundtrack to accompany her ‘Lightyears’ series of exhibitions; producing radio works for Resonance FM, Overlap.org and Kunst Radio Austria; and invited to participate in two residencies at the Art Container in Tallinn, Estonia, the second to compose new work, collaborate with other artists using sound and run deep listening, field recording and compostion workshops.
This residency has resulted in ‘Active Crossover’, a touring exhibition and exchange project which continues to tour through 2011 in four further exhibition spaces across the UK.

Further events and projects this year also include a performance at Experimental Intermedia in New York; a second collaborative performance with Hugo Olim at Observatori Festival in Valencia, Spain; and running field recording workshops in Bogota, Columbia.

Simon is based in Bristol, UK, where he has lived on and off for 14 years.

www.simonwhetham.co.uk