Francesco Di Fiore Visits Liverpool

Earlier this year (in May 2008) Neil visited Palermo, Sicily to take part in a cultural/musical exchange through taking part in a performance of HGW, a piece for improvising musicians developed by Francesco Di Fiore for the Palermo based FOLKAlab Collective, a group of musicians and artists performing music based on structured improvisation.

Thanks to Liverpool Hope's Cornerstone Festival the 'return leg' of this cultural exchange will take place with a performance of HGW at 7.30pm on Monday 24th November 2008 at the Cornerstone (1 Haigh Street, Liverpool L3 8QB). During this performance Francesco Di Fiore and members of the FOLKAlab Collective (Palermo, Sicily) will join The Neil Campbell Collective (Liverpool, UK). Created by Francesco Di Fiore for the Sicily based FOLKAlab Collective, H.G.W is a multimedia music project based on classic novels by science fiction author HG Wells. H.G.W combines composed structures and sequenced electronics with a strong focus on improvised instrumental performance -alongside these musical elements are visuals, recorded speech/sound and narration. The work is structured in a series of movements corresponding to Wells' novels - THE ISLAND (The Island of Dr. Moreau), INVISIBLE MAN (The Invisible Man), TIME TRAVELLER (The Time Machine) and THE WAR (The War of the Worlds).

As capacity in the Cornerstone Theatre is limited you are advised to purchase tickets in advance by calling the Box Office on 0151 291 3578. Tickets are £8 (£5 concessions)

Later in the week, on Wednesday 27th November, Mario Crispi (one of the visiting musicians) will deliver a lunchtime recital of his compositions for ethnic woodwind instruments (Rosa Flutes) at 1pm, again as part of the Cornerstone Festival - see details at the Festival website

Finally, at 8.30pm on Thursday 27th November Lost Voices at the View Two, Mathew Street, Liverpool will host a performance of Francesco's piece Visioni (a multimedia work with visuals by Valeria Di Matteo and music for live piano and electronics performed by Francesco) and, also on the same evening Neil Campbell and soprano Anne Taft will perform Neil's new piece 'Ghost Stories'. Entry will be £5.

We all hope that friends and music lovers will come along to experience these unique concerts. Check out Francesco's music at his myspace page and at his official website

Exquisites Actes III by Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Mark Pilkington, and Neil Campbell (14th-21st November 2008)

An audio/visual installation at the Red Wire Gallery, Victoria Street (opposite Millennium House), Liverpool. Opens: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 6:30pm- 9:00pm

Friday 14th November marks the Private View of a visual art exhibition in which Neil has been involved as a collaborator ....... the piece of work Exquisites Actes III (described below) is presented as part of an exhibition of around 6 different visual artists' work entitled Slowness (which The Times have placed 3rd in its top 5 exhibitions opening this week!) Slowness is an exhibition that presents six young international artists who work with video and live art. Often collaborating with musicians, writers and other non-art counterparts, the artists will converge on Red Wire Gallery, with the joint intention of subverting and reinterpreting our conventional perceptions of time based artworks.

Exquisites Actes III- Kai-Oi Jay Yung, Mark Pilkington, and Neil Campbell -

motivation to fragment art discourse and open meaning to as many participants as possible. Though both classically trained musician/composers, Neil explores algorithmic musical compositions whilst Mark is interested in challenging electroacoustic music. Together they will create an installation centred around a sequence of moving image and soundscapes resultant of a Fibonacci process based on chance and regulated procedure.

The artists draw upon engineering of sound and its construction to play component part to visual imagery towards an installation entailing visual and sound. A separate performance piece will bring the video process into a live dimension.

An immersive series of video and sonic compositions have been created as a result of collaborative activity between the three. Sprung from a structure based on a Fibonnaci based matrix, each carried out tasks to produce a moving image or sonic component (harmony/texture), with only length as the determining factor with theme and approach free from restraint.

Following this blindfolded method, with each artist working independently, the works have been brought together to create ten highly resolved visual/music pieces, with a total duration of just over an hour. The resulting video sonic landscapes span video surveillance, genetic engineering and Dim Sum cuisine.

By chance and collaborative instinct, together they have generated mesmerising sonic/visual landscapes that enable viewer to fabricate diverse personal, cross-narratives.

Information on the forthcoming exhibition Slowness can be viewed here - http://redwireredwire.com/page48.htm

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