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Alvin Lucier’s The Duke of York at POLYply 6
Friday, December 17th, 2010
Will (laptop) and Steve Willey (voice, text) perform Alvin Lucier’s early 1970s score The Duke of York at POLYply 6, a cross-media event dedicated to the score. Also performing that evening are Manfred Werder, Brigid McLeer, Libby Worth & Julie Brixey-Williams, and Elizabeth Guthrie. Thursday 13 January, The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1Z 9NG.
Manfred Werder realised by Will Montgomery
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Just out on Cathnor is Will Montgomery’s realisation of Manfred Werder’s score 2009 (5), which a single sentence by the French poet Francis Ponge. The mini-CDR features two recordings of the M25 motorway.
Pitch
Monday, September 27th, 2010
Pitch, a collaboration between Will Montgomery and the poet Carol Watts, will feature at a sound art exhibition in the worksetting gallery in Huddersfield from 1 December unti late January 2011. The piece is a response to the work of Italian composer Luigi Nono.
Soon come
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Two releases are being finished off at the moment. Before long a realisation of Manfred Werder’s text score 2009(5) will be out as a mini-CD as part of Cathnor’s Vignettes series. And Will’s Heygate estate composition will appear on Winds Measure as one half of a vinyl album, with a piece by Robert Curgenven on the other side.
Wire Salon – 2 September 2010
Friday, August 20th, 2010
Will is part of a panel at the Wire‘s regular salon series, along with LCC’s Salomé Voegelin and SoundFjord’s Helen Frosi:
THE WIRE SALON: WE HEAR A NEW WORLD: MICROPHONY, TECHNOLOGY & THE RISE OF SOUND ART
Elephant in Kings X
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
On Wednesday 7 July Will presents his Heygate piece as part of the new POLYply reading series at the Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9NG.
7pm start, free entry.
Interview on Tokafi.com
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Tobias Fischer’s interview with Will is on Tokafi.com
Will Montgomery and Owen Hatherley at the Ether Festival, 21 April
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Will presents a 20-minute audiovisual piece on south London’s Heygate Estate. This is a project Will has been working on for some years. The sounds used in the piece were all gathered in the area. Most have been heavily processed before being assembled in a composition. (See the online piece here for raw field recordings.) The work reappraises the last-gasp modernism of the estate, finished in 1974, when the tide had already turned against this style of local-authority architecture. The estate will soon be demolished. Owen Hatherley reads from his book Militant Modernism. There will then be a q&a and discussion.
Viaducts on Nanomajority.com
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Will’s audio piece Viaducts is now an online exhibit at nanomajority.com, accompanied by photos taken by Brian Marley (with whom Will worked on his Legend release on Entr’acte). The work uses filtered but otherwise unprocessed sounds collected in and around the Victorian viaducts just outside Waterloo station.