UK Artists – SuperEverything*

Heritage Orchestra

Chris Allen — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:38:05 +0000

Heritage Orchestra is the orchestra that rocks out arenas, messes with other peoples music, and keeps orchestral tradition in the cellar. Since 2004 this renegade ensemble has written it’s own music, veered wildly between genres, and collaborated with a diverse and high profile array of artists like Dizzee Rascal, UNKLE, Scanner, Bryce & Aaron Dessner and Aphex Twin.

They always embrace sound, visual, and adaptive music technology in ways that make other orchestras recoil in fear, and still they don’t play any classical repertoire.

Link:
http://www.theheritageorchestra.com/

Tim Cowie

Chris Allen — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:27:15 +0000

Tim Cowie is an audio visual artist, specialising in documentary film making, motion graphics, electronic sound design and live multi-screen audio visual performance. He is a longterm collaborator at The Light Surgeons and was a full time artist in their east London studio up until December 2012, when he relocated to New York. During this time he worked on a wide range of projects from installations for national museums to award winning short films.

Over this period he has become a major collaborating artist on many of their live AV performances. He continues to work on Light Surgeon’s projects as well as develop his own music and audio visual art. Tim also releases electronic music under the name Audio Dependent and is part of the duo Infinite Particles.

Links:

http://www.lightsurgeons.com/tag/tim-cowie
https://soundcloud.com/audio-dependent
http://timcowie.com/
http://infiniteparticles.bandcamp.com

Christopher Thomas Allen

david — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:04:25 +0000

Christopher Thomas Allen is a pioneering media artist and filmmaker from London. He is the remaining founder and director of the multi-media group The Light Surgeons, a company he established after studying Media Design at Portsmouth University in 1994. His work crosses a diverse range of different media; from his back ground in graphic design and photography he has gone on to direct and produce many award winning short films and several major installation projects in national museums.

His work as a performing artist has grown from the many different experimental audio visual collaborations initiated through his company The Light Surgeons. These ground-breaking multimedia performances have toured to many festivals and have helped to define the practice of live cinema internationally.

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