An evening of extraordinary sonic experience in Sheffield's prestigious Millennium Gallery and Winter Garden to accompany a special late night opening of Code:Craft featuring performances by three leading artists who work with sound in radically divergent forms: the machine-like, natural and synthetic.

In the Winter Garden - Europe's largest glasshouse - Spanish artist Francisco López presents his "Mutated Forest" piece, a transposition of sonic materials recorded at forest locations all over the world, into a special multi-channel immersive performance-installation.

Also in the Winter Garden, Russell Haswell demonstrates a different approach to field recording with a surround sound performance of his critically acclaimed 'Wild Tracks' project (recently released on Editions Mego), taking the listener into the consuming sonic universe of the "Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer", "Helicopter Trip", "Electroswat" and more.

In the Long Gallery, Mark Fell's intense synthetic work places the listener within a 'multi-spatial' soundfield saturated by digitally generated waveforms and synchronized LED light.

Curated and produced by snd for Lovebytes 010.

Documentation on Flickr.

Schedule of events:

18:30 to 21:00 Code:Craft Exhibition Craft and Design Gallery The works in this exciting exhibition, specially curated by Lovebytes in collaboration with Museums Sheffield, show how artists are exploring and ex- ploiting computer coding to produce stunning visual art using the latest digital technologies.

18:30 to 20:30 Mark Fell Installation, Long Gallery 160 sine waves with hand drawn colour curves: An intense audio visual work placing the listener within a synthetic soundfield, saturated by digitally generated waveforms and synchronized LED light.

19:00 to 20:30 Francisco López Performance, Winter Garden Mutated Forest: A transposition of sonic materials recorded at forest locations all over the world, into a special multi-channel immersive performance installation. Please walk around and explore the space during this piece.

20:30 to 21:00 Mark Fell Performance, Long Gallery 8 rectangular waveforms with variable pulse width and pitch modulation, blue light

21:00 to 22:00 Russell Haswell Performance, Winter Garden Wild Tracks: takes the listener into the consuming sonic universe of the "Exceptionally Loud Propane Gas Cannon Bird Scarer", "Helicopter Trip", "Electroswat" and more.

22:00 Close

About the artists:

Russell Haswell is an Artist and Curator. Alongside solo performances and releases on the Mego, Warp, Tochnit-Aleph, Warner Classics labels and privately published, Russell has worked in various collaborations - including Haswell & Hecker, Satanstornade (with Masami Akita), with Toshiji Mikawa, & Gescom - and has taken part in residencies at a number of international art centres: IASPIS (Sweden), NIFCA (Finland), OCA (Norway) and the Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis in Paris. Russell has achieved both an Honorary Mention and an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica and also a prestigious NESTA Fellowship. Haswell recently Curated 'LISTEN' at Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert House, showcasing the work of Bernie Krause, Chris Watson, Russell Haswell, Tony Myatt in a full 360° 'high order' Ambisonic sound system.


Francisco López is internationally recognised as one of the main figures on the stage of sound art and experimental music. His experience in the field of sound creation and work with environmental recordings covers a period of more than 30 years, during which he has developed an impressive sound universe that is completely personal and iconoclastic and based on profound listening to the world. He has been performed and exhibited at many international museums, galleries and festivals, such as: PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), Museum of Modern Art (Paris), International Film Festival (Rotterdam), Festival des Arts (Brussels), Darwin Fringe (Darwin, Australia), Institute of Contemporary Art (London), Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, Center of Contemporary Art (Kita-Kyushu, Japan), etc.

Mark Fell works with computational technologies, sound, light and interaction. He has performed and exhibited extensively at major international festivals and institutions including: Sonar (Barcelona), Mutek (Montreal), Siggraph (Los Angeles), The Powerhouse (Sydney), The Barbican (London) and has composed music for the National Ballet of Madrid. In 2000 he was awarded an honorary mention at the prestigious ARS Electronica, and in 2004 was nominated for the Quartz award for research in digital music. He recently completed a major new commission for Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna (founded by Francesca von Habsburg) which premiered at youniverse, International Biennal of Contemporary Arts, Sevilla. Described as "One of digital music's leading innovators", his recent dvd was hailed as "a minor masterpiece", "a beautiful work - provocative in all its simplicity" and "a sample of serious borderline activity". Fell has developed a strong curatorial practice with festivals including Lovebytes (Sheffield) and Sightsonic (York), and internationally. As a result, his curatorial work has formed a significant contribution to the development of digitally biased sound works within Europe. His work is currently available on Line records (NYC), Raster Noton (Chemnitz) and Alku (Barcelona) and published through Touchmusic (London).

Last Updated 30 March 2010, 12:50pm by Lovebytes.