adam.asnan@gmail.com
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Adam's work promotes the aesthetic potential of fixed (recorded), amplified sound, and the instabilities of a format; the auditory 'image' subject to the whims of its artifice. His compositions, live performances and audio-visual collaborations have been presented and staged across Europe and has recordings published by Entr'acte and Senufo Editions.
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EDUCATION
- MA Electroacoustic composition, City University, London.
- BA Sound Arts and Design, London College of communication, University of Arts London.
- AVCE Art & Design, West Hertfordshire college, West Herts.
ACTIVITY (2008-present)
--2012--
Presto!?, Milan; Solo sound performance to coincide with Michael Vorfeld's Light Bulb Music, alongside Renato Rinaldi, May 2012
Blurred Edges festival, Hamburg; Solo sound performance and group improvisations alongside other guests Leonel Kaplan, Jonas Kocher, Suono Mobile Global and local musicians Gregory Büttner, Birgit Ulher, Michael Maierhof, Heiner Metzger, May 2012.
Cafe OTO, London; Solo sound performance to coincide with the launch of Helena Gough's Knot Invariants CD on Entr'acte, alongside Lionel Marchetti, Jerome Noetinger, Yoko Higashi, Scott Foust and Frans De Waard, April 2012.
Limehouse Town Hall; Group sound performance with Vasco Alves and Louie Rice, presented in association with Entr'acte, February 2012.
EXHIBIT IV, online exhibition hosted by TRACT; An audio-visual collaborative work with James Holcombe, entitled To Mr. R.R.G. Mann June 1962, January 2012.
--2011--
Milton Keynes Gallery; Group sound performance with Vasco Alves and Louie Rice to coincide with Anna Barriball's first major survey exhibition, presented in association with Entr'acte, November 2011.
Grand Union, Birmingham; Group sound performance with Vasco Alves and Louie Rice for 'Echoes (disambiguation)', and 'Open File' publication launch, November 2011.
Cafe OTO, London; live improvisation with touring Polish musicians Tom Choloniewski and DJ Lenar, October 2011.
Folkstone Fringe festival; Sound recordings made on location (Lowestoft) for Between Two Lights, a moving image work commissioned by the Folkstone Fringe festival and produced by Lucy Crouch and Katherine Payne, July 2011.
Milton Keynes Gallery; Sound performance to coincide with Gerard Byrne's major exhibition 'Case Study: Loch Ness (Some possibilities and problems), 2001-2011' presented in association with Entr'acte, March 2011
--2010--
Public Surface, Stockholm; Inclusion of a written account of a sound installation for a group show 'Exhibition in a Package' initiated by Sara Ludvigsson, Dec 2010-Jan 2011.
Soundfjord Gallery, London; 'Soundfjord Auricular' production and composition of the first of Soundjord Gallery's podcast series, Nov 2010.
WARD magazine (online); printed discussion concerning the ideas behind Body Dysfunctional (audio-visual collaboration with Thomas Lock), with myself, Thomas Lock and Gemma Sharpe, Nov 2010.
James Taylor Gallery, London; 'Study for 8.1 (+4)' a 12 channel performance for eight high resolution loudspeakers and four cassette players presented as part of the Call & Response programme of sound arts for JTP10, 2010
Resonance FM, London; Guest speaker for 'Une Bruit, Un Melodie' presented by Anne Duffau and Patrick Furness, Oct 2010.
The Drop, London; Live performance with ARAR (Louie Rice and Vasco Alves), for 'Entr'acte Presents..', 2010.
Cafe OTO, London; Live performance with ARAR (Louie Rice and Vasco Alves), Galvanised! festival 2010.
SoundFjord, London/Gothenberg; 'Four compositions for material captured in Stockholm' featured as part of a group installation/exhibition 'Alternating Current' a sonic arts programme curated by Soundfjord for the Dragonfly Festival 2010.
Whitstable Biennale 2010; 'The voyage of Nonsuch' directed by Karen Mirza and Ruth Beale. Sound recording, editing and post-production credit (audio-visual collaboration)
Somerset House, London; Sound and Music commission to coincide with Bill Fontana's 'River Soundings', premiere performance of 'Four Thames Walks' (audio-visual collaboration with James Holcombe)
City University concert series 2010, London, multi-channel sound diffusion of acousmatic piece 'Grumbles, Lapses'.
City University concert series 2010, multi-channel sound diffusion of 'Body Dysfunctional'
(audio-visual collaboration with Thomas Lock)
--2009--
Artangel, London, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler's 'Museum of Non Participation', Sound recording and editing of programmed discussions, including production of 'Images unfilmed' an acousmatic piece using source recordings from Karachi.
no.w.here, London, Light Reading series 9: James Holcombe & Adam Asnan, Performance of 'Ley Farm' and 'Hanger Lane Heracleum mantegazzianum' (audio-visual collaboration with James Holcombe)
Cafe OTO, London, performance of 'Hanger Lane Heracleum mantegazzianum'
(audio-visual collaboration with James Holcombe)
Zoo Art fair 2009/Form Content gallery, London, 'Body Dysfunctional' installed as part of the exhibition 'The Filmic Conventions'(audio-visual collaboration with Thomas Lock)
Form Content Gallery, London, 'Body Dysfunctional' installed as part of the exhibition 'The Filmic Conventions' (audio-visual collaboration with Thomas Lock)
Serpentine Gallery, London, free cinema school/Edgware Road project, acousmatic piece 'Soer' (collaboration with no.w.here)
City University concert series 2009, London, multi-channel sound diffusion of acousmatic piece 'Pentaptych'.
--2008--
ICA 'Experiment' podcast series, 'The Art of Listening' parts 1 and 2, guest speaker.
Louise T Blouin Foundation, London, performance of 'Conglomeration for Instant Concrète' for four CD players and saxophonist.
Schirman & De Beaucé gallery, Paris, performance of acousmatic piece 'Seven Settings for Acousmatic Listening'.
Schirman & De Beaucé gallery, Paris, multi channel sound design for Thomas Lock's 16mm film 'Moments and Incidents'(audio-visual collaboration with Thomas Lock).
RELEASES
--2012--
'Fancies / Forbearance' CD, published by Entr'acte / Senufo Editions
VA AA LR (with Vasco Alves and Louie Rice) '-1' 3" CDr, published by Foredoom
--2011--
'Ley Farm' (with James Holcombe) C12 cassette, published by Entr'acte
'Heptaptych' single sided c20 cassette, 20 copies published by Entr'acte for the MK Gallery.
--2010--
'Fancies: six item of unsettled material' c20 Cassette, Published by Entr'acte
'Grumbles, Lapses' on E84, CD compilation, Published by Entr'acte
WORKSHOPS
Central School of Speech and Drama, London; Introduction to listening and recording, with extra emphasis upon the creative possibilities of the loudspeaker, October 2011.
no.w.here, London, 'Sound recording for artists', single day workshop for film makers on the basics of sound capture and composition, with an introduction to the theory of the 'sound object', September 2009.
