sorry we've been quiet for a while all busy on other projects and work

but kickstaring the 'lux redux with with some stripped down nuggets from the rehearsal vaults: 'Voice in the Wilderness' and 'Evacuation' with more to come...

Today is your last chance to catch Michael Curran's film 'Look What They Done To My Song' at the Arnolfini in Bristol. The Guardian newspaper described it as a 'tour de force' and 'a surprisingly eerie experience'.

Featuring a number of musical performances played out against an improvised theatrical backdrop, the work investigates how music and songs become a means of defining our experiences as we use them to relax or inform our moods and emotions. During the editing process the recorded footage of the performances has been manipulated, creating a series of new rhythms, counterpoints and silences, which explore the construction of songs and narrativity and provide an atmosphere almost like that of a séance.

Within the film three songs are recorded and performed, each from a different genre. The work takes its name from a 60s folksong by Melanie Safka, 'Look What They Done To My Song' - a song that could suggest the unravelling of a singer and song.

For the film, Michael Curran formed a band specifically to cover The Creation's 'How Does It Feel To Feel'.

The band were:
Singer - Poppy Coyote of Viralux (myspace.com/viralux)
Guitar - Ben Tarrant Brown of Kalev (myspace.com/kalevband)
Bass - Matt Halliday (myspace.com/skinnyfucker)
Guitar & Backing Vocals - Pascal Gamboni of Temple Thief (myspace.com/templethief)
Drums - Joas Pires of Selfish Cunt (myspace.com/ixnewyork)

Engineered & Mixed by Gordon Dawson (Viralux) & Derek O'Sullivan

Core Arts presents
NOT YOUR AVERAGE TYPE
Exhibition / book launch
Friday 14th December – Friday 21st December 2007
1 St Barnabas Terrace, Homerton, London E9 6DJ


Positioned uniquely, perhaps appropriately, between the public library and the psychiatric wing of Homerton hospital, within earshot of Hackney's Chats Palace, sits Core Arts. With its philosophy adopted from the old art school model, Core offers a creative alternative for users of the mental health services.
For over ten years now writers and poets have gathered here weekly. Along with artists and musicians, they have ranted, written, whispered and wept. Within the setting afforded by post war church hall elegance they have rehearsed their words and honed their art.
Coming here originally perhaps in search of a voice or to find confederacy with like minds a kind of alchemy has occurred, where disparate, sometimes desperate, elements have fused and produced an extraordinary body of written work. Scratched raps, mischievous lyrics and eccentric scribbles, notes and anecdotes, absurd word plays and puns, video diaries and photographic records, haunting stories from hospital corridors, all form what is Not Your Average Type.
Here a new poetry emerges; one that doesn't rhyme or scan happily; a poetry of groans. A poetry broken down, a poetry that laughs aloud hysterically in its next breath. Here you will find the incomplete works, the uncollected essays, the missing words.
Not Your Average Type is part anthology, part on going project (another nine titles are in the pipe line). The Exhibition is a book blown up, exploded over the walls of their Hackney home are cartoons, musings and clues. The opening and closing nights, soirees of spoken word, and sound performance. There and inbetween you will find what is Not Your Average Type.
Jan Noble
Editor
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Not Your Average Type

A mixed-media exhibition staged at CORE ARTS themed around TEXT and LANGUAGE involving work from all departments at CORE (poetry, painting, sculpture, music/audio, photography, horticulture etc)

featuring:
• Launch of related Poetry/Art book with accompanying CD
• Performance events on the opening and closing nights

Friday 14 – Friday 21 December
Core Arts, 1 St Barnabas Terrace, Homerton, London E9 6DJ
all events free

open Fri 14th 5-10pm / Sat 15th 12-5pm / Mon17th 12-5pm /
Tue 18th 12-5pm / Wed 19th 12-5pm / Thur 20th 12 -5pm / Fri 21st 12-10pm
closed Sun 16th


020 8533 3500
train: Homerton (Silverlink)
buses: 236 / 242 / 276 / 394 / W15