We are delighted to welcome to the team our new Supersonic Assistant Rosie Tunley. A recent graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Welcome to the team, Rosie!
Come and join our team!
Come and join the Capsule Team, we are recruiting for a new Capsule Assistant…
Role: Capsule Assistant (Freelance Position)
Deadline for application: 5pm, Friday 1 March
Interview date: Monday 11 March
Start date: Tuesday 2 April
Fee: up to £5610 / 66 days @ £85 per day
Duration: April – August 2019 (with possible extension)
Hours: 3 days per week
Frequency of days per month: April (12), May (12), June (12), July (16), August (8), plus 6 x flexible extra days used as and when in agreement with the Executive Producer. It is essential that the successful candidate is available to work Supersonic Festival weekend 19-21 July, including days either side of this.
The role: The Capsule Assistant role is designed to support the organisation, working across Supersonic Festival and our live events programme.
For Supersonic Festival you will support marketing and assist with festival logistics. During the weekend itself this role will lead the festival’s ‘Market Place’ with market traders, a small stage and workshop areas supported by a team of volunteers and any offsite projects. This role will also be responsible for capturing live audience feedback and contributing to the various social media platforms.
You will work on all aspects of the year-round, live programme – supporting the promotion, research, marketing, venue and artist liaison.
This role is based at the Capsule office at the Custard Factory in Birmingham and not suitable for remote working.
We are a small but ambitious organisation. This role would be ideal for an emerging / early-career, freelance arts professional, keen to harness their knowledge and enthusiasm and develop their skills in both the promotion and production of live events within a highly creative and dynamic organisation.
Essential experience & skills overview (more in-depth information about this role can be found in the person specification):
- Knowledge and interest in experimental music / arts, digital and live events.
- Worked within the arts, music, cultural or heritage sectors.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
- Good organisational skills, able to prioritise and problem solve.
- General IT skills.
- A good knowledge of Photoshop.
- A good knowledge and experience of using social media platforms.
- Be resourceful, level headed and be able to work well under pressure.
Personal Profile:
We are looking to appoint a warm and welcoming team player who likes working with people in an engaging way, who is assertive when dealing with challenging situations and is flexible, pragmatic and resourceful in coordinating and delivering projects. She/he needs to be able to hit the ground running, be self-motivated and prepared to work flexibly and sometimes unsociable hours during project delivery. We are looking for someone with a positive and confident attitude who is passionate about creating art events that reach out to a range of audiences.
Application pack:
Job role
Person Specification
Equal Opportunities Form
Application process:
To apply for this opportunity please email your equal opportunities form, CV, a letter of application outlining how you feel you would fulfil this role to (maximum of 2 sides of A4) to [email protected] with ‘Capsule Assistant’ In the title
The deadline for applications is 5pm Friday 1 March, interviews will be taking place on Monday 11 March and we will notify candidates that we wish to interview by 5pm Wednesday 6 March. If you haven’t heard from us by then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Due to the high volume of applications we cannot provide feedback on unsuccessful applications.
Job Opportunity – Home of Metal Project Co-ordinator
Never Say Die exhibition – Los Angeles 2018
Home of Metal – Project Coordinator (Freelance Role)
90 days between February – October 2019 based on 2-3 days per week with possible extension
Fee: £110 per day
Employer: Capsule
Location of post: Custard Factory Birmingham
Closing date: 5pm Friday 25 January 2019
Interview date: Friday 1 February 2019
Role:
Capsule are looking for a highly organised, motivated, freelance coordinator to deliver our highly ambitious Home of Metal programme of work in Birmingham during 2019. Essential experience will include arts and cultural events, heritage, marketing and project management, audience development and community engagement.
The successful candidate must be able to multitask, coordinate and manage a variety of projects throughout the programme. They should have strong knowledge and experience of administrative systems, delivering complex programmes and an excellent working knowledge of online marketing tools and digital media in order to cover the breadth of activity which will include the co-ordinating of recruitment and training of volunteers alongside delivering new contemporary art commissions with major institutions.
Background and context:
“Heavy Metal was born in the West Midlands and has developed a global following matched only by hip-hop. It’s time to stop sneering and celebrate this proud cultural heritage.” New Statesman
Home of Metal is a Capsule project and a celebration of the music that was born in Birmingham. Music that turned up the volume, down-tuned the guitars, and introduced a whole new meaning to the word ‘heavy’. Home of Metal’s exhibitions and events join the dots between music, social history, visual art and fan cultures to produce a new perspective on Heavy Metal; one that is celebratory, eschews notions of high/low art and joins audiences and performers together.
Home of Metal will deliver a programme of activity during summer 2019 including a major exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and exhibitions at The New Art Gallery Walsall, MAC, Centrala and Eastside Projects. Home of Metal is supported by Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Birmingham City University and a range of project partners and supporters.
For further information about the role please download Home of Metal Co-ordinator Job Description + Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form
For more information about the project see www.homeofmetal.com
Application:
If you are interested in applying for this opportunity please email your cv, a letter of application outlining your interest and how you feel you would fulfil this role (no more than 2 sides of A4) + the Equal opportunities form to [email protected]
Closing date: 5pm Friday 25 January 2019
Interview date: Friday 1 February 2019
Supersonic Festival 5 star reviews
Dennis Mcnett procession – photo by Snack Rock and Pop Photography
Supersonic Festival 2018 took place on the 22-24 June across Digbeth, Birmingham. With rave reviews in both the press and from audiences alike.
The Arts Desk – 5 star review- https://www.theartsdesk.com/node/81602/view
“Supersonic Festival 2018 – Birmingham waves the flag for New Weird Britain Another vintage year for Digbeth’s annual showcase of the sonically strange…as audience members from around the UK, America, Japan and other far-flung parts of the globe got together to celebrate the weird and the wonderful.”
The Guardian – 4 star review- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/25/supersonic-festival-review-birmingham-shirley-collins
“Supersonic is a festival of cross-genre pollination, but also one that questions what genre is.”
The Skinny Magazine – 5 star review- http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/live-music/reviews/supersonic-2018-the-review
“Supersonic, you knocked it out the park once again. It’s so important to have this annual citybreak of adventurous sounds from yesterday and tomorrow. And we already can’t wait to return in 2019.’
Clash Magazine- https://www.clashmusic.com/live/live-report-supersonic-festival-2018
“there’s an undeniable sense that Supersonic is incomparable to any other UK music festival.”
“Supersonic are not so much who I’m writing this piece for as a reason I’m writing it. That is to say: the festival’s approach to choosing lineups is a prototype of how I prefer to envisage music’s underground. A space of interactivity rather than cramped, glowering sects, where sufficient imagination can cook up a conceptual link between any two given acts. In 2018, music fans are way less rigid in their tastes than they used to be. The reasons for this are complex, although not so complex that I can’t say ‘mainly because of the internet’, but on a micro level, many identifiable entities have helped to get listeners to swerve across multiple lanes. Supersonic is, I feel, one of them.”
Flush The Fashion- http://www.flushthefashion.com/music/supersonic-festival-22-24-june-2018-birmingham/
“Since its inaugural event in 2003, Supersonic has grown to be one of Europe’s standout alternative festivals. Centred around The Custard Factory and the industrial warehouses of Digbeth in Birmingham, Supersonic has constantly evolved to fulfil its mission statement of providing experimental music for curious audiences….That’s why there is no festival like Supersonic and that’s why it has built a loyal following over the last 15 years – long may it continue.”
Fighting Boredom- http://www.fighting-boredom.co.uk/live-review/supersonic-festival-2018-friday-live-review/
“Fighting Boredom’s favourite festival is here again. Set in the Custard Factory in Birmingham, Supersonic festival is where we come to hear old favourites, discover new inspiration and immerse ourselves in the best place ‘for curious audiences’.”
Pop Matters- https://www.popmatters.com/supersonic-festival-2018-2586958730.html
“In 2018, Supersonic returned with an impressive line-up, one of the strongest in its history. From extravagant producer Yves Tumor, score master Mark Korven, instrument aficionados Mario Batkovic and Andrea Belfi, to legendary folk singer Shirley Collins, psychedelic gurus Dwarfs of East Agouza, punk legends the Ex, and black metal masters Wolves in the Throne Room, Supersonic extended its grasp.”
Echoes and Dust- https://www.echoesanddust.com/2018/07/supersonic-festival/
“Supersonic is an absolute champion among festivals, a unique and precious thing, a banquet for the musically curious.”
What’s on Brum- 5 star review – https://whatson.guide/2018/06/28/supersonic-festival-review/
“Supersonic promotes the most challenging and experimental music. Whether it’s brutalising electronica, hard EDM, noise, doom psyche or bombastic black metal, it’s here. If there’s anything more extreme, no doubt it would eventually end up at Supersonic. This is a festival not afraid to take chances.”
Supersonic produced tour for Outlands
Supersonic Festival produced a UK tour for the Outlands consortium for new music. Bringing together three improvisational luminaries; multi-instrumentalist YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO, SAICOBAB), avant-garde percussionist Susie Ibarra, and artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens) to perform together as Yunohana Variations for the first time in the UK.
YoshimiO is a drummer and member of the revolutionary group Boredoms. She is the leader of the experimental band OOIOO, a member of Free Kitten with Kim Gordon (ex. Sonic Youth), and most recently the vocalist in SAICOBAB.
Susie Ibarra, is one of the most significant percussionists and composers of our time, known for her work as a performer within contemporary, avant-garde, jazz, classical, and world music, and performs in the band Dreamtime Ensemble. Ibarra studied with jazz luminaries Earl Buster Smith (of Sun Ra Arkestra), Vernel Fournier and Milford Graves, and Philippine Kulintang gong-chime music with Danongan Kalanduyan. She has performed with the likes of: John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Yo La Tengo, Ikue Mori and recent works include a sound installation for Ai Weiwei.
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is strongly rooted in exploration of moments and the hypnagogic state. Movement and gesture play key factors within this process, and in the performance realm are focused on by voice and modular synthesizer. A fixture of Chicago’s experimental community throughout the 90s and early 2000s, Robert has also performed under the name Lichens, is a member of the legendary band Om, and has an impressive portfolio of collaborations, which extends to the film world with his score for pseudo-documentary A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, directed by Ben Russell and Ben Rivers (which Robert also appears in).
Fri – Sun 22- 24 June Supersonic Festival Birmingham
Tues 26 June London, Oslo Hackney,
Wed 27 June Bexhill, De la Warr Pavilion
Thu 28 June Cambridge, Cambridge Junction
Fri 29 June Milton Keynes, MK Gallery
Sat 30 June Bristol, Arnolfini, promoted by Qu Junktions
Sun 1 July Manchester, Soup Kitchen, promoted by Fat Out
Mon 2 July Bradford, Fuse Art Space
Weds 4 July Plymouth, KARST
We are recruiting! Come join our team…
Capsule is looking to recruit two new roles to support the organisation and next year’s Supersonic Festival.
RECRUITING: GENERAL MANAGER (FREELANCE POSITION) MATERNITY COVER
Capsule is looking to recruit a part time, freelance General Manager to ensure the smooth running of the organisation including Capsule’s office, provide senior support to the staff team, ensure the company’s financial management and reporting and effective governance including the preparation of all papers for Capsule’s quarterly board meetings.
- Role: General Manager (Freelance Position)
- Deadline for application: 5pm, Monday 31 August 2020
- Interview date: Tuesday 15 September 2020
- Duration: Feb 2021 – August 2021 with possible extension / longer-term job share Sept 2021 – March 2022.
This contract includes 10 days (October 2020 – January 2021) for handover / planning. - Start date: Nov 2020 date to be negotiated
- Fee: £120 per day
This part time, freelance role is a 6-month position (with possible extension), designed to provide Maternity Leave cover for the partial responsibilities of Capsule’s current Executive Producer.
This role will ensure the smooth running of the organisation including Capsule’s office, provide senior support to the staff team, ensure the company’s financial management and reporting and effective governance including the preparation of all papers for Capsule’s quarterly board meetings. This is a new role and it is anticipated that the successful candidate will play a crucial part in shaping some aspects of this new role.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and are keen to attract people of different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We particularly encourage applications from BAME and LGBTQ+ candidates, people with a disability.
We are a small but ambitious organisation. This role would be ideal for an experienced freelance art professional.
Application process
To apply for this opportunity please email a completed equal opportunities form, CV, and a letter of application outlining how you feel you would fulfil this role to (maximum of 2 sides of A4) to [email protected] with ‘General Manager’ in the subject line.
We will notify candidates that we wish to interview by 5pm Tuesday 8 September. If you have not heard from us by then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Due to the high volume of applications we cannot provide feedback on unsuccessful applications.
RECRUITING: FESTIVAL MANAGER (FREELANCE POSITION) MATERNITY COVER
Capsule is looking to recruit a part time, freelance Festival Manager to ensure the smooth running of Supersonic Festival 2021
- Role: Festival Manager (Freelance Position)
- Deadline for application: 5pm, Monday 31 August 2020
- Interview date: Thursday 17 September 2020
- Duration: November 2020 – August 2021
- Start date: November 2020 to be negotiated
- Fee: £7,800 (£120pd / 65 days) + 5 ‘flexi’ days, to be used as / when required.
This part time, freelance role is designed to provide Maternity Leave cover for the partial responsibilities of Capsule’s current Executive Producer. This role will ensure the smooth running of Supersonic Festival 2021 and will involve close working with the General Manager, Festival Producer and Programme Assistant, as well as work with the wider festival team. You will also work to support aspects of the year-round, live programme. This is a new role and it is anticipated that the successful candidate will play a crucial part in defining and shaping the role.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and are keen to attract people of different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We particularly encourage applications from BAME and LGBTQ+ candidates, people with a disability.
We are a small but ambitious organisation. This role would be ideal for an experienced freelance art professional.
Application process
To apply for this opportunity please email a completed equal opportunities form, CV, and a letter of application outlining how you feel you would fulfil this role to (maximum of 2 sides of A4) to [email protected] with ‘Festival Manager’ in the subject line.
The deadline for applications is 5pm, Monday 31 August 2020. We will notify candidates that we wish to interview by 5pm Thursday 10 September. If you have not heard from us by then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Due to the high volume of applications we cannot provide feedback on unsuccessful applications.
OUTLANDS first tour announced – Matana Roberts & Kelly Jayne Jones
An exciting new live collaboration between internationally renowned US composer, Matana Roberts and British sound artist/improviser Kelly Jayne Jones. The first in a series of special commissions produced by OUTLANDS ; a new national experimental music touring network. Supersonic Festival will present the Birmingham performance on Friday 18 May at Centrala – tickets are available HERE
“Projects like these act as the first line of resistance against a potentially myopic, monoculture and should be supported.” Drowned in Sound
A very special series of sonic episodes bringing together US mixed-media composer/ saxophonist Matana Roberts & UK improviser and flautist Kelly Jayne Jones : two artists from disparate backgrounds, finding affinity in practices charged by fiercely personal philosophies on sound and its potential within a patchwork of genre, texture and meaning. Roberts and Jones will weave their own approaches into live collaborative works informed by deeply expressive playing, tactile electro-acoustic interplay and a broader shared politics of resistance/defiance.
Photo by Paula Court
Matana Roberts is an internationally renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including improvisation, dance, poetry, and theatre, and has released a diverse body of solo and ensemble work under her own name on Constellation Records and Central Control over the past decade.
Kelly Jayne Jones makes use of varying combinations of prepared recordings, text, rocks, found sounds and flute. Her work beckons a tussle with uncertainty, inviting exposure and vulnerability in performance, chasing experiences that open our chasms within, without restraint. Searching for humble principles of growth; physis; sound, connecting with others in the same space/moment, customary experimental play, with threads and beads of improvisation and interactivity. KJJ has had residencies at Arnolfini in Bristol UK and Kunstalle Bergen, Norway, and has produced commissioned works for Haris Epaminonda at dOCUMENTA13, Tate Modern, ICA London, Schirn Frankfurt, Point Centre Nicosia.
Come and join the Capsule team!
Come and join the Capsule Team, we are recruiting for a new post which has been made possible with funding from the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries Programme.
PLACEMENT DESCRIPTION: Audience Development Assistant
SALARY: 4 days per week, £17,095 pro rata
CONTRACT: 12 months Fixed Term Contract
This post is offered as part of the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries Programme, aimed specifically at recent graduates from low-income backgrounds looking to start a career in the arts.
IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS MUST:
- Have graduated from a degree (BA or equivalent) within the past two years (i.e. in 2015, 2016 or 2017. No minimum grade required
- Have received a full maintenance grant during the full period of their course and be able to verify it with the necessary paperwork
- Be a full-time UK resident.
Please ensure that you meet ALL these criteria before applying for this position.
PLACEMENT OUTLINE
Working as part of our core team the Audience Development Assistant will help to create a buzz and excitement around our key projects Supersonic Festival, Home of Metal and our year round programme. Ensuring Capsule has good visibility both virtually and also physically across the city and the UK. You will play a crucial part in engaging with and developing new audiences for our work.
APPLICATION PACK
● Placement Description
● Application Form
● Equal Opportunities Form
The deadline for applications is: 5PM FRIDAY 15 DEC 2017
Please send a covering letter describing why you are interested in the placement (no more than 1 side A4) + Application Form + Equal Opportunities Form to info[at]capsule.org.uk with ‘Audience Dev Assistant’ in the title