[UNIT] World Premiere

[UNIT]  World Premiere

Friday 2 and Saturday 3 September. 2pm, 7pm and 9pm each day.

Shoe Factory Social Club, St. Mary’s Works, St. Mary’s Plain, Norwich NR3 3AF

Experimental 360 degree live music and video performances within 7 giant video screens and octophonic sound system that seeks to redefine traditional notions of performance and the relationships between space, performer and audience. Created and performed by Bill Vine, Anthony Bailey and Dan Tombs.

All tickets £5 from Norwich Arts Centre, www.norwichartscentre.co.uk  01603 660352

A new concept in the presentation of live music debuts at Norwich’s new Shoe Factory Social Club at St Mary’s Works, Oak Street on September 2nd and 3rd.

[UNIT], the title of both the show and the name of the artists collective who have created it will be staged within a custom built 360 degree ‘surround stage’ of seven video screens and octophonic sound system housing both audience and performers. In this immersive multi-sensory environment the audience is presented with a heightened bodily experience. Walking around within the space can affect both the sound and the visuals, becoming an integral part of the compositional process and the performance.

Norwich audiences can be the first in the country to witness this unique event on 2nd and 3rd September with separate shows each day at 2pm, 7pm and 9pm.

[UNIT] is a collaboration between composer, sonic artist and electronic instrument builder Bill Vine, composer and musician Anthony Bailey and video artist Dan Tombs. Anthony has played with many professional orchestras, including the London Mozart Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the English Chamber Orchestra. Dan is a much in demand artist who also currently collaborates with Jon Hopkins, Gold Panda, East India Youth and The Charlatans.

Vine and Bailey create music that is experimental yet accessible on a variety of wind and electronic instruments. This combines elements of classical composition with improvisation and spontaneous interaction with the audience. The resultant sounds are transformed into moving images by Tombs, distorted, glitched and maligned to become the constantly evolving projections that surround the players and audience.

Bill Vine said ‘By blending unusual traditional instruments such as alto and contrabass clarinets with cutting edge electronic technology and Dan’s visual manipulations we aim to create a performance environment that is genuinely exciting. We hope to give audiences an experience like they’ve never had before, by putting them right in the heart of it, breaking down the barriers that usually exist between composer, performer and audience. By moving around they effectively become part of the performance, more engaged and actively involved than in a traditional front facing gig environment’.

Each performance will be recorded binaurally to give a 3D sound effect and a download link will be offered FREE OF CHARGE to audience members.

Following the debut performances in Norwich and others in Colchester in January 2017, [UNIT] will tour nationally.

[UNIT] are are associate artists of Norwich Arts Centre. It is supported by Arts Council England, Norwich Arts Centre, Escalator Music, Electronic Sound Magazine, Watershed Studio, The Space and The Shoe Factory Social Club. www.unitunit.org