Michael @ Mengi

Michael Francis Duch performing Reconstruction V: Shadows of Machines, at Mengi, Reykjavik on 24 November.  Composition by Lene Grenager, video projection by Jeremy Welsh.

Lemur at Mengi, Reykjavik

Friday 24 November Norwegian contemporary ensemble are performing at Mengi in Reykjavik where the programme will include the film-music project Reconstruction V: Shadows of Machines, a collaboration between myself, composer Lene Grenager and bassist Michael Duch.  The work was premiered in January 2022 and has been performed several times in Norway. This will be the first international performance.

Michael Duch performing at Trondheim Cinematheque, June 2022.

The Impossibility Exhibition

A further episode in the ongoing collaboration with British author Paul A. Green.  His text The Impossibility Exhibition was originally written in 1989 and appeared in a video work entitled "Terminal Zones" that was made for an event at London Filmmakers' Co-op celebrating the work of J.G. Ballard. A re-recording of the text was made in 2016 an d re-edited in November 2023 to make this new video, in which Paul Green reads the entire text. The speaker is montaged into a slow-moving slideshow of monochrome images showing often indistinct details of architecture and urban landscapes.

A production of The Quantum Brothers and The Institute for Random Studies.

Autumn 2023 projects, Bergen.

Songs we Sing is an experimental music and multimedia project initiated by Alwynne Pritchard and Hans Knut Sveen. In September 2023 they invited a diverse group of artists and musicians to join them for an intensive workshop followed by a one day public event - an open rehearsal rather than a finished performance. Participants, in addition to the two project leaders, were Tijs Ham, Hild Borchgrevink, Thorolf Thuestad, Roar Sletteland and Jeremy Welsh. The live event featured video, electronic sound, spoken word, visual performance and music played on harmonium, electronic cello and violin. A spoken performance by Alwynne Pritchard was video recorded, remixed and combined with video shot earlier in the week.

 

Persistent Disequilibrium III took place at the end of September at the cultural centre WRAP in Bergen. Tijs Ham, Øyvind Brandtsegg, Trond Lossius and Jeremy Welsh held a four day workshop to further develop the work, then a public performance took place on Saturday 30th. September. A three hour improvised performance within an installation built up over four days extended some of the ideas developed in earlier iterations of the project, while exploring new possibilities. As previously, the installation included surround sound and multiple video projections. All of the imagery was generated during the workshop, and included pre-recorded loops and live projections using a digital microscope to record the movements of magnetically agitated iron particles and steel balls.