https://benmcdonnell.co.uk Ben McDonnell Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:29:44 +0000 https://benmcdonnell.co.uk en https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Home Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:51:39 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Home https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Etudes-2026 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:29:44 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Etudes-2026 Études (2026)&nbsp;<img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fe52b437e06c33e9944950930271765d5cac2dd18abb8806942d4a2111ec6e9/IMG_5524.jpg" data-mid="243626852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7fe52b437e06c33e9944950930271765d5cac2dd18abb8806942d4a2111ec6e9/IMG_5524.jpg" /> A book of scores that propose breath, touch, texture and listening as structures for working together. The scores don’t require any formal training to perform and have been the basis for performances and recordings with students, collegues and friends at Norwich University of the Arts, Goldsmiths UoL and my studio.&nbsp; <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4e182a673ca1f72a1c02f06c2f699ec67f75fbefa242fae0027ac6a27f25c65/IMG_5525.jpg" data-mid="243626853" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4e182a673ca1f72a1c02f06c2f699ec67f75fbefa242fae0027ac6a27f25c65/IMG_5525.jpg" /> The cover is screenprinted at Norwich University of the Arts, the binding bands are sewn and the scores are hand printed with their title.&nbsp; <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87dda385573a748bf6633404b6c1cada08c8a59907acdd5c722c751e6313cf52/IMG_5527.jpg" data-mid="243626855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87dda385573a748bf6633404b6c1cada08c8a59907acdd5c722c751e6313cf52/IMG_5527.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de661353e4b4c226bc9245dae7736404a71882c4583b8eba22aa514d065a8ada/IMG_5526.jpg" data-mid="243626854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de661353e4b4c226bc9245dae7736404a71882c4583b8eba22aa514d065a8ada/IMG_5526.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c5d9c05d95ac06d52db2a5033a5772e2e4e4c54b56c96d050dc5c99ba3a178f/IMG_5529.jpg" data-mid="243626857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c5d9c05d95ac06d52db2a5033a5772e2e4e4c54b56c96d050dc5c99ba3a178f/IMG_5529.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/310eabc5d1432ec83614e9d6ba068e5f500e0d978fae7d490f4fe9210c47b20c/IMG_5530.jpg" data-mid="243626858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/310eabc5d1432ec83614e9d6ba068e5f500e0d978fae7d490f4fe9210c47b20c/IMG_5530.jpg" /> Thanks to all at Norwich University of the Arts for help workshopping, performing and printing.&nbsp; https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Coming-Apart-and-Falling-Together-2025 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:11:04 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Coming-Apart-and-Falling-Together-2025 Coming Apart and Falling Together Apsara Studio 14-16th August 2025 <img width="4908" height="6871" width_o="4908" height_o="6871" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a8ae17320355960a02279faa570423d65d72b7dd180b8d9df9f044f8a452e06/5x7-DSC_3969-copy.jpg" data-mid="243626606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a8ae17320355960a02279faa570423d65d72b7dd180b8d9df9f044f8a452e06/5x7-DSC_3969-copy.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="4912" height="6877" width_o="4912" height_o="6877" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07d16b75066da050dcba38cd8e27f817687f1d251f25715409e24f5e4fcc08f9/DSC_4162-copy.jpg" data-mid="243626662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07d16b75066da050dcba38cd8e27f817687f1d251f25715409e24f5e4fcc08f9/DSC_4162-copy.jpg" /> Install Images BM2025 [Laser cut speaker panels 100cm x 80cm] The title for the exhibition emerged as I was trying to describe the simultaneous nature of both needing support and structure as well as the desire to be open and adaptive in my practices of teaching and making art. In both processes, either composing music or teaching students, I try to provide structures that give enough context and clarity to engender an ‘event’. The event is an unexpected outcome, a collaborative, co- constructed way of learning and making as critical, albeit short-lived, bubbles of resistance that transgresses scores, lesson plans and other architectures that we might work within. <img width="5559" height="3971" width_o="5559" height_o="3971" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1f09a10038a2e5ae0c2a732a9070f7e6883979da678846ff6fe5ca36431251e/alignedlayers_0004_Layer-0.jpg" data-mid="243626667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1f09a10038a2e5ae0c2a732a9070f7e6883979da678846ff6fe5ca36431251e/alignedlayers_0004_Layer-0.jpg" /> Install Image BM2025 [Touch Twice Graphic Score 50cm x 40cm] The main work in the exhibition is a series of rehearsals/performances recorded at Norwich University of The Arts. In this work, musicians encounter a series of graphic scores (also in the exhibition) that use breath and touch as a basis for making the work. The scores give an indication as to what might happen, but they leave space for the unintended and unexpected. Symbols from the scores have been laser cut into the panel speakers, revealing the structure of the board. These speakers physically surround participants in the exhibition so that the sound which is experienced will differ depending on your position in the exhibition space. <img width="5559" height="3971" width_o="5559" height_o="3971" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/064137dbae8886d31268efcee2533cbd4b62474ac02736ac718cc935b83e04a8/alignedlayers_0001_Layer-3.jpg" data-mid="243626668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/064137dbae8886d31268efcee2533cbd4b62474ac02736ac718cc935b83e04a8/alignedlayers_0001_Layer-3.jpg" />Install Image BM2025 [One Note for Four Breaths Graphic Score 50cm x 40cm]&nbsp; The scores themselves use materials that are easily changed and adapted. They are collages that suggest textures, layering, movement and direction for those performing them. In addition, there are two large scale images, Resonant Bodies, that depict Helmholtz Resonators, instruments that were used to hear the resonant frequencies in spaces before computer measurement. <img width="4481" height="6273" width_o="4481" height_o="6273" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e8b807be0911610aecd3c053bfb849b21eca3ccab4f6a25d9e18cb12150cd25/DSC_4078-copy.jpg" data-mid="243626669" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e8b807be0911610aecd3c053bfb849b21eca3ccab4f6a25d9e18cb12150cd25/DSC_4078-copy.jpg" />Install Image BM2025 [Resonators] The exhibition forwards listening as a critical act of being with people, space and things. It presents collective learning that focuses on breath, rhythm and timbre as a shared experience. Rather than relying on individual technical facility or virtuosity, the work offers a space that draws on our differing embodied experience of collectively working in a space, allowing for the transformational event of learning together. <img width="6218" height="4442" width_o="6218" height_o="4442" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7da670dc475e6fb5106d8e62fda531200618d99d5c3051679330e610b94a5ef8/DSC_4009-copy.jpg" data-mid="243626665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7da670dc475e6fb5106d8e62fda531200618d99d5c3051679330e610b94a5ef8/DSC_4009-copy.jpg" />Install Image BM2025 [Touch Twice 3D Animation 7” Monitor]<img width="6877" height="4912" width_o="6877" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4086b3eb38c0e60baaa8e2c8c6771a8101289d843174871ea3ad75d6800d3b54/DSC_4086-copy.jpg" data-mid="243626663" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4086b3eb38c0e60baaa8e2c8c6771a8101289d843174871ea3ad75d6800d3b54/DSC_4086-copy.jpg" />Install Image BM2025 [Touch Twice Graphic Score 50cm x 40cm &amp; Resanator Print 100cmx 80cm] Acknowledgements The work in this exhibition was made with the support of all at Apsara Studio, as well as the care of artists whom I admire greatly, and I am thankful for their kindness and generosity – it has been amazing learning with you all. Musicians Dr Phil Archer Emma Denby Chris Kemsley Ilona Krawczyk Dave Pullin Sound and Film&nbsp;Denisa Ilie Harry Smith Laser Cutting Ed Compton 3D Erdem ErginNemo Nonnenmacher Support/Advice/Snacks Thom Bridge, Jenn Ellis, Molly Pardoe, Joshua Phillips, Ying Tan and all the technicians and staff at Norwich University of the Arts https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/BREATH-Passengers-Residency-2021 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:07:29 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/BREATH-Passengers-Residency-2021 BREATH A Series of works based on architecture, image, collectivity and breathing. Developed on residency at Passen-gers in March 2021 Residency #3 from Passengers on Vimeo. Passengers is a site-specific exhibition series that explores the historical, social and material contexts of sites and architecture. For its inaugural series artists presented work sequentially to explore the real and imaginative associations of the Brunswick Centre – a Modernist, mixed residential and commercial development in Bloomsbury, London. I made a series of images that blend analogue and digital imaging techniques to re-present the architecture of The Brunswick Centre as unfixed and responding to the needs of those that occupy it. During the residency I worked with analogue cyanotype process (used for architectural blueprinting) and contemporary 3d imaging techniques to prodice a body of work that repositioned the architecture as a moving, breathing constellation of parts. The work manifest as a magazine with text by composer Bushra El-Turk, a film made with artist Nemo Nonnenmacher and a digital sculpture that was exhibited at AORA space. In addition I collaborated with students from the Meng course at the Bartlett School of Architecture to make a series of structures for the camera.&nbsp; Breath [zine] (2021) Riso print, recycled paper. Text by Bushra El-Turk. <img width="720" height="412" width_o="720" height_o="412" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f1ebda057f63d7c3a205e4cbb80cdc546b9a5316ed268b86fddeebbb4236b25/regift.gif" data-mid="121487264" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/720/i/4f1ebda057f63d7c3a205e4cbb80cdc546b9a5316ed268b86fddeebbb4236b25/regift.gif" /> Breath [video] (2021) Made in collaboration with Nemo Nonnenmacher. full duration 6minutes. Breath Fly-Through 1m from Benjamin McDonnell on Vimeo.As installed at Passengers, The Brunswick Centre, London 2021 <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7ade1bb8a31c9f0a21670395813fe9980daf8e3087c0dabfc2c72e48caa7e47/23_The-Unfolding-Terrace_Ben-McDonnell--Breath--2021--Passengers.png" data-mid="121487688" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7ade1bb8a31c9f0a21670395813fe9980daf8e3087c0dabfc2c72e48caa7e47/23_The-Unfolding-Terrace_Ben-McDonnell--Breath--2021--Passengers.png" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; Performing Structure For the Camera Workshop with Meng students from Bartlett School of Architecture. Provided with basic materialsa nd a point and shoot film camera, students were asked to usethe Brunswick Centre as a context, a supporting structure, think about the camera as a device that slows or freezes time, creating work that can only exist within the frame of the image. <img width="1181" height="1476" width_o="1181" height_o="1476" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a409dcab7627a44ae9a0201529dddde4871e7c01dbc1f201ded11543db0f0901/w3.jpg" data-mid="139414640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a409dcab7627a44ae9a0201529dddde4871e7c01dbc1f201ded11543db0f0901/w3.jpg" /> <img width="945" height="1181" width_o="945" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cac0336fe7794105bf8fe659e5052756457b274aa03b70b7c1bf5378e20e3b4/w2.jpg" data-mid="139414644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/945/i/7cac0336fe7794105bf8fe659e5052756457b274aa03b70b7c1bf5378e20e3b4/w2.jpg" /> <img width="945" height="1181" width_o="945" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fc0c946e27516fbed346e7e8ad789ae8589bfde544a4ee294dc001561731e7b/w1.jpg" data-mid="139414639" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/945/i/6fc0c946e27516fbed346e7e8ad789ae8589bfde544a4ee294dc001561731e7b/w1.jpg" /> Images made in workshops installed during exhibition <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e721ab213a9d81de1b35d5b2c07c3e1d01140d37e2f7486b9865000a69b2926/28_The-Unfolding-Terrace_Ben-McDonnell--Studio-1.5--2021--Passengers.png" data-mid="139414886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e721ab213a9d81de1b35d5b2c07c3e1d01140d37e2f7486b9865000a69b2926/28_The-Unfolding-Terrace_Ben-McDonnell--Studio-1.5--2021--Passengers.png" /> Breath [Sculpture] (2021) As installed in Aora Space.&nbsp; A LiDAR scan of the expanding and contracting ligament of the Brunswick Centre was used to build a virtual sculpture. The work is comprised of over 10,000 individual points, constuant parts in the work that coagulate to make the form exhibited. The work can only exist in virtual space and as such I was pleased to be offered to exhibit as part of Aora IV.&nbsp; <img width="7680" height="4320" width_o="7680" height_o="4320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e967ce0f1f7a8fd90fdacf7597e31d22bd1dc00fa81bda2330e32ef524e96bab/AoraShow4_Stills_Ben003_0013.png" data-mid="121488096" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e967ce0f1f7a8fd90fdacf7597e31d22bd1dc00fa81bda2330e32ef524e96bab/AoraShow4_Stills_Ben003_0013.png" /> Gallery_show4_FlyThrough_ben from Benjamin McDonnell on Vimeo. https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Iterations-Inversions-2019 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:09:06 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Iterations-Inversions-2019 Iterations/Inversions (2019) Work that his compactable and responsive to its environment. <img width="1890" height="2362" width_o="1890" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf5ef55191fe9a236251f1ad6e4966e7ac64295730a66b34fa6ad37969bb3392/4sm.jpg" data-mid="62067711" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf5ef55191fe9a236251f1ad6e4966e7ac64295730a66b34fa6ad37969bb3392/4sm.jpg" /> This installation, &nbsp;Inversion (2019, dimensions variable) is derived from The Sound We Inhabit, work made on residency at Chisenhale Studios in 2019. It has been shown as part of the Bankley Open (Selected by Mariana Tsionski [CFCCA] and Zoe Watson [Holden Gallery]) and shipped and remade for the Sound of Space conference at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, London. <img width="1890" height="2362" width_o="1890" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/287da0ab6253fd3c85dc74e4d969c9a4dd46f66dc1c5de41934a9c8052e37e75/1sm.jpg" data-mid="62067847" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/287da0ab6253fd3c85dc74e4d969c9a4dd46f66dc1c5de41934a9c8052e37e75/1sm.jpg" /> <img width="2761" height="3451" width_o="2761" height_o="3451" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0ecfc87a2a2b89d031c64c998312a93d31036a598d485fcb7a67e7a5395ba41/IMG_7697.jpg" data-mid="62067860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0ecfc87a2a2b89d031c64c998312a93d31036a598d485fcb7a67e7a5395ba41/IMG_7697.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae2f2ded6225ef1510cfe47e33b278d5bd32f49f4c527db0e2c42309d45f85b8/IMG_7612-2-copy.jpg" data-mid="62067882" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae2f2ded6225ef1510cfe47e33b278d5bd32f49f4c527db0e2c42309d45f85b8/IMG_7612-2-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2362" height="1890" width_o="2362" height_o="1890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7563ac2f34575c0a3be2eac58422740630de2000ecd22cd30b60c700d911bfe7/2sm.jpg" data-mid="62067886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7563ac2f34575c0a3be2eac58422740630de2000ecd22cd30b60c700d911bfe7/2sm.jpg" /> https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Exquisite-Corpse-ALR-2019 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:10:02 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Exquisite-Corpse-ALR-2019 Exquisite Corpse for Art Licks Radio (2019) Working with Dominic Till we took the Surrealist game, Exquisite Corpse, and curated a piece that is made up of different sounds from nine of artists, forming a public body that is interdependent, organic and realised through sound. &nbsp;A mix of readings, interviews, sonic art and music; each participant was free to interpret the brief and use sound in any way they wish. Ultimately, this formed a plural body of contingent constituent parts, which, to us at least, feels like a relevant method of co-creation in the age of individualism. Artists (in order of appearence) Dominic Till, Joel Bell,&nbsp;Holly Drewett ,&nbsp;Tamara and Yoshi Kametani,&nbsp;Emma-Kate Matthews,&nbsp;Joshua Leon,&nbsp;Monica Rivas Velasquez &amp; Ben McDonnell.&nbsp; <img width="828" height="1023" width_o="828" height_o="1023" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d77f0363554adafba0e76f376ed242b194e5834f91ba2bc321c5bd187bf409be/IMG_8590.jpg" data-mid="62006612" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/828/i/d77f0363554adafba0e76f376ed242b194e5834f91ba2bc321c5bd187bf409be/IMG_8590.jpg" /> https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Mesh-2020 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:29:54 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Mesh-2020 Mesh (2020) Installed as part of a site specific work at Manchester Central Library. The work depicts a photogrammetry scan of Corinthian column that is an architectural feature of the space the work is installed in. The work brings together the architecture of the library and evokes the scrolling of a phone screen, an anachronistic gesture combining two different structures that enable the dissemination of knowledge. <img width="576" height="720" width_o="576" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6dc9666ffa2cb20896f05a70c7037d03af606117e2f4cc2c409c0f8c271eb263/IMG_8589.GIF" data-mid="62003307" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/6dc9666ffa2cb20896f05a70c7037d03af606117e2f4cc2c409c0f8c271eb263/IMG_8589.GIF" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f080733cc35b24def7fb7c20ebddad73d2572914a638d7c630a09a665d672f1e/2.jpg" data-mid="61987258" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f080733cc35b24def7fb7c20ebddad73d2572914a638d7c630a09a665d672f1e/2.jpg" /> <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb4a6aab59d3459c326a343afef63f0c27c5bb73592d3039279c8bd0af374b1a/4.jpg" data-mid="61987259" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb4a6aab59d3459c326a343afef63f0c27c5bb73592d3039279c8bd0af374b1a/4.jpg" /> https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Modest-Proposals-2019 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:37:29 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/Modest-Proposals-2019 Modest Proposals <img width="6016" height="4016" width_o="6016" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2735addf78e4b7aa239ada21c0fe1ff1dbc1663bb2be61542d24e886e18b15b7/SCH_day_2-2-of-38.jpg" data-mid="61983642" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2735addf78e4b7aa239ada21c0fe1ff1dbc1663bb2be61542d24e886e18b15b7/SCH_day_2-2-of-38.jpg" /> An immersive piece of music for tone generators, drum kit, guitar and electric bass. Modest Proposals was commissioned for the JEMP festival (2019) and makes use of a blend of improvisation and written material making use of graphic scores to consider how musicians can work together within a fixed structure.&nbsp; Modest Proposals is named after both the Jonothan Swift novel and the text by curator Charles Esche. https://www.jempfestival.com/newpage193ae432 Performed with Emma-Kate Matthews (Electric Bass) and Jon Ormston (Drums) <img width="5020" height="4016" width_o="5020" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c82ae760a2c9be307a599c84af74863c462a10ec96572db3ec9d2f79c062c709/SCH_day_2-15-of-38-copy.jpg" data-mid="61983640" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c82ae760a2c9be307a599c84af74863c462a10ec96572db3ec9d2f79c062c709/SCH_day_2-15-of-38-copy.jpg" /> <img width="6016" height="4016" width_o="6016" height_o="4016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ccebcc20baa4b6b9e05214ac2bf15a3d7cd0b3f6e771a04727ab6e7b7b843fb/SCH_day_2-18-of-38.jpg" data-mid="61983641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ccebcc20baa4b6b9e05214ac2bf15a3d7cd0b3f6e771a04727ab6e7b7b843fb/SCH_day_2-18-of-38.jpg" /> https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/The-Sound-We-Inhabit-2019 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:02:23 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/The-Sound-We-Inhabit-2019 The Sound We Inhabit (2019) The Sound We Inhabit - EPK from Benjamin McDonnell on Vimeo. <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e059adbe91c9f08efd179c533b37a4773ed4bda099ff82071e0e27a8a9938f6f/DSC_4360.jpg" data-mid="61982061" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e059adbe91c9f08efd179c533b37a4773ed4bda099ff82071e0e27a8a9938f6f/DSC_4360.jpg" /> Developed at the Chisenhale Studio Residency in August 2019. The work comprises composition, performance, installation and graphic scores. 'The Sound We Inhabit' (2019) is based around the dissonance between my desire for quick, responsive and temporary architectures and the need for longer term stability and support. <img width="3930" height="4912" width_o="3930" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e02125698ebba823913c1c088f7e29cb6e380f1db37bd8635f48a5696546e98/DSC_4403.jpg" data-mid="61982405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e02125698ebba823913c1c088f7e29cb6e380f1db37bd8635f48a5696546e98/DSC_4403.jpg" /> <img width="4806" height="6729" width_o="4806" height_o="6729" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8813d8535a2447d4839b212496b0212d958912d48f1c1bfe6398667783199062/score-5.jpg" data-mid="61982425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8813d8535a2447d4839b212496b0212d958912d48f1c1bfe6398667783199062/score-5.jpg" /> The composition is organised in 5 movements. It was written for Korean Flute (otherwise know as Teagum), Violin, Electric Guitar and Bass Clarinet. The work is written using a graphic score, a non traditional pictorial form of notation to deliver the minimum structure that the musicians need in order to work together to create the piece. https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/1-September-2018 Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:06:22 +0000 Ben McDonnell https://benmcdonnell.co.uk/1-September-2018 #1 September (2018) <img width="1049" height="700" width_o="1049" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eab7216080e5705fb41aaa63dc8fc93c44f1655372bccdcfba52c733558f0e63/41_1_v3.jpg" data-mid="62006262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eab7216080e5705fb41aaa63dc8fc93c44f1655372bccdcfba52c733558f0e63/41_1_v3.jpg" /> Made in collaboration with Ying Tan, this curatorial project, #1 September, was the first in an ongoing series of art, discussion, music and text events based around artistic practice as a long-term, unresolved process with particular emphasis on unstable, in-flux and unfinished ideas with other artists/writers/curators/musicians. <img width="1049" height="700" width_o="1049" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c5f154189dd1c0eaba7e531e745d0b61e8d309ea4aa030d942a6ad3ac7eb376/41_11.jpg" data-mid="62006261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c5f154189dd1c0eaba7e531e745d0b61e8d309ea4aa030d942a6ad3ac7eb376/41_11.jpg" /> Artists Tom Lovelace and Ryan Moule will be used the space to create new work, artist and bookmaker Yoshi Kametani experimented with work in progress, composer and guitarist Joel Bell performed a new piece and writer En Liang Kong discussed recurring themes in his work. <img width="1049" height="700" width_o="1049" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e091e07f11eca511baf9971410c999d4573caee17f4e8e4ffcd2c96f1d85e153/41_22.jpg" data-mid="62006260" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e091e07f11eca511baf9971410c999d4573caee17f4e8e4ffcd2c96f1d85e153/41_22.jpg" /> <img width="933" height="700" width_o="933" height_o="700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/916d82f669f19fea6adcf31903044a087afddd9f006f6d0ff5d16410c166abe2/41_1event.jpg" data-mid="62006259" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/933/i/916d82f669f19fea6adcf31903044a087afddd9f006f6d0ff5d16410c166abe2/41_1event.jpg" />