Birdsong: Symphony For Absent Wildlife (edit)

Tenebre

Composed and performed for Lucy and Jorge Orta's "Symphony for Absent Wildlife" at La Nuit Blanche, Calgary, September 2014

Birdsong: Symphony for Absent Wildlife

Clarity

She Wakes In Her Sleep

Gareth Mitchell is a singer, guitarist, composer and sound designer who has worked in a number of different environments and released work for the labels Eye Contact, Revolution Harmony, ERS/Staalplaat, Setola Di Maiale, Absurd and Kranky.

After contributing to space-rock outfit Amp's first two albums and writing Record Collector's single of the week "Beyond" for them, he produced several highly acclaimed solo albums of experimental electronica. He has played live at New York’s Knitting Factory, festivals around Europe, such as EARational in the Netherlands and the Online Flash Film Festival in Barcelona, as well as in ensembles featuring long-standing free-jazz improvisers Thomas Kumlehn and Stefano Giust that have performed around Germany and Italy,

He has devised and created music and sound for several installations and dance collaborations. These include: 
“Orphan Realms” (with Tara D’Arquian, The Place, London 2017),  “Tenebrae” (with Hubert Essakow, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, 2016) “SELphOBiA" (with Paola Napolitano, Emerge Festival, London) “Terra” (with Hubert Essakow, Print Room, London, 2016) “Symphony for Absent Wildlife” (UAL Showroom 2015)  “1898: Contemporary Dance Festival” (with Hubert Essakow, Print Room, London) "Speculative Realism in Relation to Geometry” (Angus Hughes Gallery, London)  “Symphony for Absent Wildlife” (with Lucy Orta, La Nut Blanche, Calgary, 2015) 
He has also directed a play about motor neurone disease (Dr. Ricki Patani, Nathalie Czarnecki, “Thought to Flesh”, 2016).

Previously, he contributed to the sound design of projects for the National Theatre and West London's devising workshop, The Playground, and worked as producer, sound engineer and editor for the radio station Resonance FM. In 2006 he worked together with poet sean burn on the Arts Council commission,”speaksong" for the Lit Up festival in Kendal. In 2009-2010 he was commissioned by Watermans Art Centre to produce two pieces of work about the forthcoming London Olympic games, one a series of sound pieces made in conjunction with students at a local secondary school and the other a solo, multi-speaker installation. 

Formerly a Music Technology lecturer at West London College, specialising in Music Technology in Performance and Acoustics, Gareth now lectures on Sound Art at London College of Communication, University of Arts London. He is currently collaborating with Hamburg-based musical Tom Fleischhauer in a duo called GATO.

www.garethmitchell.info

Gareth Mitchell

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