Thanks to Cathy Soreny and Emma Vickers of Tinnitus Jukebox for sharing their video of Justice Yeldham aka Lucas Abela performing live at last year’s Supersonic Festival. They’re currently making a documentary about Lucas’ Vinyl Rally installation, one of the highlights of Supersonic 2012.

As Justice Yeldham, Abela creates an other-worldy sound by pressing his face and lips against glass whist employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries.

Justice Yeldham – live @ Supersonic 2012 – full performance from Tinnitus Jukebox on Vimeo.

Supersonic Festival returns 25-27 April 2014. In the meantime, there’s heaps going on at the Library of Birmingham Discovery season, including a Supersonic-esque line up at Bring to Light 25-27 October, featuring Dinos Chapman, Robedoor, Josephine Foster, Masaki Batoh, High Wolf and more

To mark the official public launch of Library of Birmingham, Capsule have invited Australian producers Super Critical Mass to present ‘Together We Breathe‘, a large-scale project comprising up to 150 brass players from the region, strategically positioned to play their instruments throughout the new library building.

We require a small team of enthusiastic volunteers to help us deliver this ambitious event.
Duties include:

– greeting brass players prior to the performance
– stewarding brass players to and from the performance space
– assisting Super Critical Mass in the positioning of players throughout the Library building
– engaging with audiences regarding the project during the performance
– setting up and clearing refreshments for brass players

Interested?

Volunteers will need to be over 18 years old and available at the following times:

Thursday 29 August, 10am – 12pm (volunteer briefing meeting)
Sunday 01 September, 10am – 3pm (rehearsal)
Tuesday 03 September, 9am – 2pm (performance)

Volunteers will be appointed subject to an advanced DBS check (formerly known as CRB check) which Capsule will arrange on behalf of applicants.
Please email [email protected] with ‘VOLUNTEER’ in the subject line for a registration form.

Deadline for applications: Friday 02 August 2013, 5pm

And if you play a brass instrument, there’s still time to get involved with this mass participatory performance. More details here

We have another opportunity for creatives to get involved with the Library of Birmingham’s Discovery Season. We are seeking artists to lead food-based activities, that will contribute to Harvesting Stories, a season of food-related activity to celebrate the culinary heritage of the city and showcase the new Library of Birmingham.

There will be three loosely themed ‘public picnics’ – Play, Film and Stories – and we are looking for artists to deliver public engagement projects on one of the following dates.

PLAY
Sunday 8 September, 12-4

FILM
Sunday 20 October, 12-4

STORIES
Saturday 14 December, 12-4

If you are interested please submit your idea, together with a budget (maximum £500) and your CV. We will not consider applicants who do not supply all of the necessary information.

Email your submission and queries to [email protected] by 1 August 2013.

The high speed dance phenomenon comes to Birmingham this October. As well as catching performances by the musicians and dancer, you can join a hyper accelerated dance workshop, complete with costumes!

“…there are rapid-fire, limb-rattling individual turns and hip-shaking group routines,

all set to face-meltingly fast electro rhythms…This is Shangaan electro” The Guardian. you can read an interview with the creator Nozinja here

There’ll be a Shangaan performance at Bring to Light, and on Saturday 26th October you can join a dance workshop at the Library of Birmingham, for all ages and abilities. Tickets for Bring to Light are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

During the four month Discovery season for the opening of the Library of Birmingham, The Pavilion will house a series of creative residencies, from Film Ficciones to Girls Who Draw, the Library of Lost Books, and many more.

The Pavilion will be animated with coloured signs, displaying words chosen the the Birmingham 2022 group. This group of 16-24 year olds are currently hard at work pulling together the brochure for the Discovery season with the help of designer Keith Dodds.

Images courtesy of http://supergrouplondon.co.uk

Image by Katja Ogrin

Thanks to Simon Gray for sharing this video he made of Nazoranai’s amazing performance on Tuesday 9th July at CBSO Centre. With Keiji Haino on vocals and guitar, Stephen O’Malley on bass and Oren Ambarchi on drums it was both heavy and complex.

After a hugely successful, artistically exciting and game changing 10 years, Capsule are using this milestone as an opportunity to re imagine Supersonic Festival. The festival will return in April 2014, in a new format, at an exciting new venue, with experimental new music and art remaining at its heart.

It’s been a wonderful decade of adventurous music, beginning in 2003 with a one-day event featuring Coil and LCD Soundsystem. Last year’s anniversary event encompassed a weekend of installations, workshops, talks, films, new commissions, and live performances with Kim Gordon, the Oxbow Orchestra, Penny Rimbaud and many more.

We’re enormously grateful for the loyal support of our audience, and we hope you will join us 25-27 April for Supersonic Festival’s next chapter.

Dinos Chapman

And while you wait, Capsule are producing ‘Bring to Light’, a weekend of performances 25-27 October as part of the Library of Birmingham opening season. This will see performances from visual artist turned sonic performer Dinos Chapman, South Africa’s Shangaan Electro, the ‘brain pulse music’ of Masaki Batoh, songstress Josephine Foster, Robedoor, and more. This event has very limited capacity and tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Line up:
Dinos Chapman / Shangaan Electro / Josephine Foster / Clipping / Deafheaven / Masaki Batoh / Robedoor / Zomes / High Wolf / Kogumaza / Richard Dawson / Sleaford Mods / Sarah Angliss / Delia Darlings / Laurence Hunt

Go to www.capsule.org.uk/project/bringtolight for more information.

What a show! Thanks to all who came to the CBSO Centre last night, it was a really magnificent event and your feedback has been brilliant.

Thanks to Katja Ogrin for these photos.

Nazoranai were huge, and Keiji Haino, Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O’Malley really pushed the guitar/bass/drums set up to new heights.It was one of only three UK shows for this tour and was entirely improvised.

Keiji Haino

Stephen O’Malley on bass

Oren Ambarchi on drums

Nicholas Bullen presented sounds from his new record ‘Componenent Fixations’. CBSO Centre is an acoustically magnificent space, and the clarity of sound was perfect for the drones, sinewaves and environmental sounds of the piece.