PAUL BRADLEY :

Paul Bradley is a musician from the UK who creates tapestries of textural drones to redescribe the sonic landscape. Sounds are abstracted from life, reinterpreted and given a new context and along with instruments, most notably guitar, are disembodied and twisted into new soundworlds, transformed into rich, drifting, sonorous music. These “sensual strung-out vibrations” effectively marry digital with analogue and phonography with instrumental disciplines creating an organic abstraction of sound.

Artist statement: “What at first can appear to be minimalist environments, are in fact quite active and are often complex textural fields. Added to this the themes that run through much of my work have rarely been made explicit as I hope to achieve something almost familiar yet un-nameable about the music, the essence of which would only be destroyed by over explanation and conceptualization. I strive for something more emotional, celestial or un-temporal, something that if reduced to the common denominator of language, would be lost.”

Releases have been issued on a number of labels, most notably ICR, Alluvial Recordings, Shining Day, Small Voices and also on his own label Twenty Hertz. Collaborations have also been plentiful working with contemporaries such as Colin Potter, Darren Tate, Maile Colbert and Andrew Liles and also as a recent member of Monos.

Paul has performed both solo and in collaboration a number of times in the UK, Spain and Portugal and his work has been shown in the USA. He was also one of the organisers of the Intergration events along with Colin Potter that included performers such as Keith Rowe, Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Coleclough and Scribble Seven aka Nurse With Wound. Paul also runs the Twenty Hertz and edition sonoro labels issuing recordings from the likes of Monos, Ubeboet, Keith Berry, Irr. App. (ext.) and Jgrzinich.

REVIEW QUOTES:

“ (Liquid Sunset)… is an absolutely beautiful piece. Let there be no mistake about it.”
Vital Weekly - Frans de Waard

“As if watching a highway glowing in the burning sun, the flickering heat radiated by these tracks turns into a sensation of its own, morphing and losing its form…” - Tobias Fischer

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:

Sirens - Twenty Hertz (UK) 2008
Moraines II (w/ Cría Cuervos) –Small Voices (IT) 2007
Somatic – con-v (ES) 2007
Memorias Extranjeras – Alluvial Recording (USA) 2006
Live (w/ Colin Potter) – Twenty Hertz (UK) 2005

MAILE COLBERT:

Maile Colbert is an American filmmaker, video, and sound artist currently living and working in Lisboa, Portugal.

She holds a BFA in The Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, and a MFA in Integrated Media/Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts.

She has had multiple screenings, exhibits, and shows including The New York Film Festival, LACE Gallery, MOMA New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles, The Portland International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival and has performed and screened widely in Japan, Europe, Mexico, and the States.

Recently she was a visiting lecturer teaching Sound Design at UCSD; designed sound and composed for Rebecca Baron’s film How Little We Know of Our Neighbors, winner of the Black Maria Film Festival Best Film, designed sound for Adele Horne’s feature documentary The Tailenders, broadcast on PBS POV and winner of a 2007 Independent Spirit Award, Allan Sekula’s epic The Lottery of the Sea, and designed sound for Betti-Sue Hertz’s multi-media multi channel installation at the Centro Cultural Tijuana for the 2005 inSite Festival. She has had the pleasure and opportunity to work with such artists as Carole Kim, Andrea Parkins, Kraig Grady, Jeff Cain, Mark Dresser, Steve Roden, Paul Bradley, Matthew Marble, Kadet Kuhne, Anne LeBaron, Hypo, Can’t... and numerous wonderful others.

She is currently working on a new experimental opera on millennialism and apocalyptic thought and theory with Rui Costa, opera singer Gabriela Crowe, singer Jessica Constable, and using the poetry of Ian Colbert; and is mid-production on a feature documentary on Autism called The Plane Flies High Because I am Not Afraid. She returned in 2007 from attending the Binaural residency program in Nodar, Portugal and in 2008 become an active member of the organisation.

REVIEW QUOTES:

“…bunkered in breathy, teeming harmonics that hover above these clusters of incandescent notes, which time and again culminate in a bending skyward wail.”
– earlabs

“Colbert offers a delicate array of structural loops and backwards lullabies.” – Jim Haynes

”… filled with moments to be repeatedly savoured and definitely remembered… the composer is extremely clever in her choice of not fossilizing herself on a specific setting, possessing an uncanny ability in elaborating the right alternance of evocative ambiences and juxtaposed pictures” – Massimo Ricci