Referencing the mysterious alien intelligence encountered in 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the film, a Monolith transmits messages throughout deep space, communicating to different elements of itself. When astronaut Dave Bowman encounters the Monolith, his final transmission before entering the stargate is, “My God, it’s full of stars.” Bowman is eventually transformed by the intelligence into a timeless existence and born again as the ‘star child’. He later becomes a messenger between the Monolith and the human race.
 A mixture of virtual classical instruments, Mellotron, field recordings, virtual choirs, transmission signals and signal tones.



The Stars In Us All (Short Version)

sound work emerging out of a text which itself needs not to be revealed.

Sound work emerging out of the slogan "death to the Fascist Insect that preys on the lives of the people"

Death To The Fascist Insect

The title of this piece is taken from Albert Tennyson's The Kraken.This sonnet subsequently inspired John Wyndam's novel The Kraken Wakes. Usimg above and underwater recordings the piece attempts to explore these worlds of the unknown underneath. The mysterious depths of the oceans remain largely unseen and unknown. The beast is suggested through exploration and intrigue until it finally reveals itself.

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Far Beneath in the Abysmal Sea

Night Out- Pub

This is a sound project, created at Sheffield Hallam University. The content of the piece is about an ordinary day of an ordinary girl who works at her local pub.

"Have You Been Served?"

We Are Delicate... this is the original on the spot recording of this song.
Captured live in one take on a Zoom H6 recorder in our old rehearsal room on Sidney Street over two years ago! Roger and Andrew had just joined the band and our new line up was formed! This song came from nowhere like a beast from the swamp and we don't think we've ever quite played it the same again! Hence, why this raw, unedited, original version is going up here! Enjoy!

We Are Delicate - original version

End of Ends is a text/sound installation by Steve Dutton and Neil Webb that plays with an understanding of the ‘ending’. It is a potentially vast list of ‘endings’ and an ever-expanding sound loop.

www.endofends.co.uk

Biography
In 1880 Nietzsche wrote ‘God is dead’. In 1882 the Church of St. John the Divine opened in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. 500 people attended every Sunday. Contradictions between intellectual positions and real human behaviour may be fertile territory for artists.

END OF ENDS is the third of three Arts Council funded residency projects at x-church.

Frank Kent made site specific paintings, Charles Monkhouse experimented with Brocken Spectres and now Dutton and Webb are working in sound and text with an apparently endless list of ends.

x-church is a vast empty space holding at one and the same time a sense of something ended and a sense of something beginning. For this project Steve Dutton and Neil Webb have created a text/sound installation which plays on our understanding of beginnings and endings by developing a potentially infinite list of ‘endings’ along with an ever expanding sound loop. Visitors to x-church and to www.endofends.co.uk will have the opportunity to contribute their own endings to this ever-growing project.

Logically the longer the list becomes, and the more the sound expands, the more they should become exhausted, but in reality many people report that the experience of adding to the list pushes their thoughts further towards a sense of beginnings. Ironically, although the invitation is to submit and to consider endings, by doing so, the work and perhaps associated thoughts of possibilities continue to take place.

Steve Dutton and Neil Webb often work within other collaborations but this is the first time they have worked together on one project incorporating sound and text.

Visit www.endofends.co.uk to find the list online.
Visit x-church in May to find the list screened on a continuous basis and enveloped by the accompanying sound.

With thanks to STS Touring Productions Ltd, Kate Buckley, and TJS Web Services.

This project is supported by ACE, The University of Lincoln and Sheffield Hallam University.

End Of Ends

The Writing on the Wall

Neil is an artist and lecturer working in Sheffield, UK.

End Of Ends

Neil Webb

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