Guildford International Music Festival 2007
Special events
Sound Installations
A Visit to Milk Wood by Anthony Bonello
Red Biddy Gallery, Kings Road, Shalford
Saturday 3 March - Saturday 31 March
Closed Mondays
Tuesday - Saturday 10am – 6pm
Sunday 12noon – 6pm
This installation is inspired by the play Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. Almost all the multitude of characters have some kind of aural attribute. Even the environment itself is full of sounds. Other sources of sounds and rhythms can be found in the words themselves that Dylan uses.
The whole day cycle represented in the play is paralleled in the installation by the length of the loop. When the loop starts again it will get out of sync, thus new situations will be created. This reflects the fact that each day will have a lot in common with other days, with exceptions that will make it unique.
The colourful pictures of the characters by Tony Todd are another source of inspiration. Their influence is not on the factuality of the sounds but rather on their timbres and contrasts. Sound metamorphosis is an essential ingredient within this work as one character interacts with another to build up the events keeping the community of Llareggub going.
The installation coincides with the exhibition Under Milk Wood Revisited,
featuring paintings by Tony Todd and specially commissioned work from gallery artists celebrating the ‘Wales' of Dylan Thomas.
Red Biddy Gallery
01483 303346
Sixty Days of Goodbye Poems of Ophelia
Lewis Elton Gallery, University of Surrey
Tuesday 6 March – Friday 23 March
10am – 5pm weekdays/ 2pm – 5pm weekends
WellcomeTrust
A fine artist, a musician, and a sound designer collaborate with a microbiologist, to explore the unseen world of bacteria and the part emotional experience has to play in the interpretation of scientific info rmation. They will work together to create an animated painting out of the palette of natural colours that bacteria provide.
The work will reference the famous Pre-Raphaelite painting Ophelia by Millais, confronting the idea of death, decay and beauty. The growth and interaction of bacteria will generate the image, and also portray the body's decomposition. The soundscape will be derived from the genome sequences of the bacteria as they colonise the body over a sixty day period.
This project has already created a unique collaboration involving a bacteriologist, Dr Simon Park, a recognised animator and multimedia artist, Joanna Woodward, an international composer, Dr Stephen Goss, and sound designer Milton Mermikides. The exchange of info rmation and ideas between these individuals had led to the concept of an artwork designed by humans, but performed and facilitated unwittingly by bacteria. The resulting work can be viewed in a sixty-minute single screen and sound installation. 
Solutio
Multispeaker sound installation
Monday 19 March – Friday 23 March
Guildford Cathedral
11am – 12noon and 3pm – 4pm
This installation explores the symbolism of the sevenfold system of antiquity and alchemical cosmology. Seven speakers located within the Cathedral represent each of the visible heavenly bodies (‘planets') that determined the geocentric model. Measurements of ‘planetary' motion and the properties of each associated metal combine to determine the installation's sounds and their rhythms. Leaving a subtle trace in the Cathedral acoustic the installation invites contemplation and thought on the mysteries of planetary order.
Devised by Dr Matthew Sansom
Exhibition and Festival Artist
Music and More II by Artist in Residence Roger Dellar PS RI
Roger Dellar returns to the Music Festival as artist in residence. An exhibition of his work from the 2005 Festival will be on view in the foyer of the Performing Arts Technology Studio (PATS). Roger will be working in situ at numerous events throughout the 2007 Festival. Visitors will be able to witness his lively spontaneous approach as he captures the atmosphere and drama of performance, a genre he has made his own. The recipient of numerous professional awards, Roger Dellar's reputation as a fine artist continues to grow both nationally and internationally.