left London

Gigs, Simon Says

I played a last official/inoficcial gig at ‚eXperimental electronics‘ in the Castle in London. I was not on the Setlist and blagged my way in. I had only one instrument, my trusty ZOOOM SOS. Lara gave me 10 minutes, I made good use of them, even if I started playing during the cigarette break to a pretty empty room.

Tim Drage filmed it which I am very grateful for.

Playing at Power Lunches on Sunday

Gigs, Simon Says

SUNDAY 8th of DECEMBER

6 o’clock

POWER LUNCHES

446 Kingsland Road

LONDON

E8 4AE

DER WARST –yeeahhh … Circuit bending / audio / visual madness … LIVELIVE …
http://www.der-warst.de/seiten/musik.html

the mighty mighty mighty mighty mighty Deux Boules Vanille (fr) are touring and we couldn’t let em slip past London without stopping them and forcing them to play some of their fine music …. 2 piece, drums and triggers and synths, etc and whatevs – come and explore these with us!!
http://www.2boulesvanille.com/

ctcvn – us, making loud obnoxious noise with electrical apparatus, 2 drums (1 elec/1 beast) vocals of joy and splendour, we wanna play, so we will …
https://www.facebook.com/ctcvn?fref=ts

The Dust Museum Of Joy – 2 piece, epic hypnotic drone masters … known about them for quite some time, but only managed to catch them at noise=noise a couple of months back!! … yes yess and of course yeessir.
http://www.robface.com/tdmoj.html

maybe another act, maybe not … all money goes to the noise makers, aside from us, cos you know, that would be naughty … £3 entry // decent underground, bunker-ish type settings, piss over saturday and wreak it out on sunday with ussss!! …

9th: Gleetch London at Moustache Bar

Gigs, Simon Says

Waaah, I’m soo looking forward to having a gig after so much silence.

9th of August

Moustache Bar

58 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XB

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Night shift revisited

Simon Says

It’s been close to a year now since I had the Night Shift show at Simon Oldfield Gallery. Yesterday, I was surprised in a very very nice way by Rebecca Helen Page, who has filmed bits of the performance I’ve done there and uploaded them to Vimeo.

It was quite a noisy performance with very weird sound and I had very short hair at that time.

The desk I had my instruments on was absolutely gorgeous. It felt like my own private TARDIS.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/29164394?portrait=0&color=ff0307

Thanks a lot Rebecca.

Seven Sisters

Gigs, Simon Says

Oh, the randomness. The whole thing was disorganised as fuck!
Of course, there was no projector, the Kaoss pad’s power adapter broke, I forgot the extra special cable for the Zoom 505 at home. The PA sucked big time and I was playing last, ending around 5:30. I was loud and obnoxious
All in all, It was a pretty fun night.

of this event I cannot foresee the end

Simon Says

Exciting times!

There’s a show coming up that I’m gonna be in.

Here’s the official blurb:

Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery presents Of this Event, I cannot foresee the end. – video art / video performance / installation

Private view: Thursday 1st March 6-9pm
Exhibition runs 2nd-30th March 2012, Thu-Fri 5-9pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm

Stour Road, Hackney Wick, E3 2NT London, United Kingdom

The featured artists appropriate approaches from scientists in order to gain insights, accumulate data or choose their observational vantage point. By defining a framework wherein a staged experiment or action can take place, the artists test the boundaries of our earthly existence, everyday life, patterns of social behaviour and virtual reality. A distanced camera perspective witnesses and frames the performance – events with unknown outcome – wherein chance and failure play part. The video works go beyond documentation demanding independence from the prior event and share the element of suspense, surprise and humour.

Artists:
Memo Akten ● Sophie Clements ● Callum Cooper ● George Eksts ● Kris Emmerson ● Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski ● Santiago Ortega ● Clifford Sage ● David Sherry ● James Stringer ● Anais Tondeur ● Helen Turner ● Pablo Wendel ● der Warst (Simon Schäfer)

Audio-visual performances at the opening night:
der Warst (Simon Schäfer)
Brood Ma (Quantum Natives)
DJ Tesco (Quantum Natives).

Curated by Carmen Billows

The exhibition also marks the second anniversary of Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery. All welcome.

Nightshift

Simon Says

Night Shift

Katy Kirbach & Simon Schäfer

Private View
7 September 2011, 18.30 — 20.30
 

Exhibition continues to
28 September 2011

Night Shift explores the relationship between painting, sculpture and performance with new work by Simon Schäfer and Katy Kirbach.  

The exhibition examines the tension between the handmade and ready-made; multiplicity and uniqueness; live event and still object; the diurnal and nocturnal.  Night Shift is visually and aurally layered with texture, sound, digital feeds, colour and analogue electronics. 

9 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON WC2E 8PW
RSVP ART@SIMONOLDFIELD.COM +44 (0)20 7395 3701

WWW.SIMONOLDFIELD.COM

Knowhow

Simon Says

Opening reception

Saturday 2nd July 2011 6.00 – 9.00pm

Exhibition runs:

3rd July – 24th July 2011 12.00 noon – 6.00pm

or by appointment

Closing event:

Saturday 23rd July 7.00 – 11.00pm

Artists music event, artists TBC

KNOWHOW – Curated by Ben Newton

To acquire knowhow is to gain the practical skills or intelligence necessary to get something specific done. This is tacit knowledge in the sense that it can be withheld and kept confidential. It may also be difficult to transfer without practical instruction and the required cognitive faculty in the beholder. In the artist this skill has traditionally revealed itself as craft.

Since the dawn of the Readymade, craft in Art has continually been brought into question, and as a result any preconception of a definitive Artistic Knowhow has been blurred or expanded to involve a myriad of scenarios or conditions.

Knowhow aims not necessarily to pin down a definition of the word but to ask the artists to delve into their own practice or maybe push themselves beyond their normal bounds of proficiency. This might manifest itself in a cathartic exploration of an unknown craft, an engagement with a ‚knowing‘ failure or even through the use of prosthetic labour which utilises the employment of non-artistic intervention.

KNOWHOW is a curatorial project by Ben Newton in collaboration with Campbell Works

Campbell Works

27 Belfast Road

London N16 6UN

0044(0)20 8806 0817

info@campbellworks.org

http://www.campbellworks.org