https://rosedagul.com Rose Dagul Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:33:34 +0000 https://rosedagul.com en https://rosedagul.com/Homepage Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:58:44 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Homepage <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1ef16c9e5893029f45c42e5a1bbdd97548dd52bc93c7d154034f0302910b267/DSCF7306.jpg" data-mid="193607671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1ef16c9e5893029f45c42e5a1bbdd97548dd52bc93c7d154034f0302910b267/DSCF7306.jpg" />At Practise, cur. Jude Browning, David Dale Gallery &amp; Studios. Aug.2023.&nbsp;Photo by Erik Osberg.&nbsp; <img width="3024" height="3780" width_o="3024" height_o="3780" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b43764c6cfd04b52549ec603123ff15fa7f60176a6b89f8fe5615a80175214d2/BD14B53D-627D-4193-AD3A-1F3A2FAB2ACD.JPG" data-mid="155707214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b43764c6cfd04b52549ec603123ff15fa7f60176a6b89f8fe5615a80175214d2/BD14B53D-627D-4193-AD3A-1F3A2FAB2ACD.JPG" />Alien Wind jumper, 2022 https://rosedagul.com/Alien-Wind-5 Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:29:36 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Alien-Wind-5 Alien Wind (2015 and ongoing) An ongoing collaboration with Penny Klein. Our work began as a single improvisation between violin and cello and now spans composition, drawing, performance and video. 2015 - Alien Wind: Echoes 2016 - Alien Wind: Some Will Be Good, Some Will Be Bad 2017 - Residency at The Manorbier Reading Room 2018 - Performance lectures at&nbsp;The Falmouth Illustration Forum and Lighthouse, Brighton 2021 - Awarded the Jerwood 1:1 Fund 2022 - Alien Wind: Worm <img width="3024" height="3780" width_o="3024" height_o="3780" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b43764c6cfd04b52549ec603123ff15fa7f60176a6b89f8fe5615a80175214d2/BD14B53D-627D-4193-AD3A-1F3A2FAB2ACD.JPG" data-mid="156067792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b43764c6cfd04b52549ec603123ff15fa7f60176a6b89f8fe5615a80175214d2/BD14B53D-627D-4193-AD3A-1F3A2FAB2ACD.JPG" /> Alien Wind: Worm, 2022, hand-knitted jumper<img width="874" height="1240" width_o="874" height_o="1240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38dfa5a5a979990b834d78a282e008a8e75770c18bb42414817ca14ec84c0347/echo-3-booklet-4.jpg" data-mid="156067625" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/874/i/38dfa5a5a979990b834d78a282e008a8e75770c18bb42414817ca14ec84c0347/echo-3-booklet-4.jpg" />Alien Wind: Echo 3 (excerpt), 2015 Alien Wind: Echo 7 (excerpt), Live at Art Licks, 2015 <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84269478d51e2a596a991cda6953d571465a98cdb39c0cd329c36cd0942b226b/The-Surround-25.jpg" data-mid="156079089" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84269478d51e2a596a991cda6953d571465a98cdb39c0cd329c36cd0942b226b/The-Surround-25.jpg" /> Alien Wind performance lecture, 2018 Alien Wind: Echo 1, 2015‘In a mountain region where day in and day out one hears the wind relentlessly play the same invariable theme … [o]ne perhaps does not reflect that there was a time when the wind, which for many years has had its dwelling among these mountains, came as a stranger to this area, plunged wildly, absurdly through the canyons, down into the mountain caves, produced now a shriek almost startling to itself, then a hollow roar from which it itself fled, then a moan, the source of which it itself did not know, … until, having learned to know its instrument, it worked all of this into the melody it renders unaltered day after day. (Kierkegaard 1843c, p. 155)Initial Plan (2015)Echo 1: Violin &amp; Cello improvisationEcho 2: Linear drawing to map the improvisationEcho 3: Graphic score interpretation of drawingEcho 4: Violin &amp; Cello performance of the graphic scoreEcho 5: Vocal reenactment of the Violin &amp; Cello performanceEcho 6: Dance interpretation of the Vocal reenactment to be continued indefinitely… Alien Wind: Some Will Be Good, Some Will Be Bad, 2016 Alien Wind &amp; Mike Rotch - Ambient DJ Set (Excerpt), 2018 https://rosedagul.com/Joy-Workshops Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:37:18 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Joy-Workshops Joy Workshops&nbsp;Workshop, Recording, Performance (2019 and ongoing) Benji Jeffrey and Penny Klein are frequent collaborators of mine who have a mutual interest in centring joy, enthusiasm and friendship within an art practice. We view our shared work as a test bed for expressing our ideas in a way we describe as 'quick and dirty'. Nothing we do is ever really 'finished'. It is a proposal for ways of engaging with creativity, particularly as a partnership, sometimes practically, sometimes utopian.&nbsp; We have developed educational workshops from this way of working and have, to date, worked with students at Goldsmiths University, Royal College of Art, Chelsea College of Art and the University of the Underground, as well as running a workshop at&nbsp; Supernormal Festival. This first video is a visual manifesto for our way of working. 1 | We are friends and we want to enjoy our friendship 2 | We want to dance, sing, draw, play and fiddle 3 | We want to share our enjoyment 4 | We want to talk face to face 5 | We will trust each other’s vision 6 | We will be patient 7 | We will coax each other out of fear and anxiety 8 | We will be bold in the confusion we feel 9 | It will come from the heart These next videos are works initially made for ourselves which have became part of our pedagogical practices. The idea is simple; one person creates a video which they pass to the next. The second person adds a layer before sending to a third who does the same and completes the video. I have employed this technique with students as a proposal for a DIY approach to making, and I would recommend you try it with a couple of pals.Isolation videos (2020) The final example of our practice is similar to the last, but rather than adding on top, each person responds to the previous video with something to be added at the end.&nbsp; This can be done with as many people as you like, but in this example it's just the three of us. Within this chain you only ever see the last video, not the one that came before that. We completed the version below as a prelude to a workshop on Joy, Enthusiasm and Friendship at Supernormal festival which included a performance of Pauline Oliveros' Tuning Meditation, an exquisite corpse drawing circle and a group choreography session. <img width="451" height="300" width_o="451" height_o="300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b4fb2a6d49cf8c8ec54129a5c7215662608ee7656008d577260aab4a17e9ce0/Joy-1.jpg" data-mid="156076666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/451/i/6b4fb2a6d49cf8c8ec54129a5c7215662608ee7656008d577260aab4a17e9ce0/Joy-1.jpg" /><img width="451" height="300" width_o="451" height_o="300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c0dfed2950e770db5c21f0021a1c08e7d81d690f169a6cbba52a622bf288143/Joy-2.jpg" data-mid="156076667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/451/i/1c0dfed2950e770db5c21f0021a1c08e7d81d690f169a6cbba52a622bf288143/Joy-2.jpg" /> Documentation from Workshop, Supernormal Festival, Oxfordshire, Saturday 3rd August, 2019(Photos: Eleni Parousi) Joy! Enthusiasm! Friendship, 2019 Benji, Rose and Penny met through the South London Art School scene and began collaborating in 2009 as a band called Wap Wap Wow, later Rhosyn. Our collective practice is based on a foundation of friendship. The comfort, support, enthusiasm and joy we share is what makes us want to create together. Using joy as a tool for disarming and tackling the troubles we have between ‘being’ and ‘appearing’ in the world. Why does it feel like a novelty to make work with your friends? Would we make time for this otherwise? Why is there not time? What will we make if we get the time? How valued is real friendship in the arts? We realise that friendship is often fetishised within the context of art making and its movements, in the margins of art history, yet, in all its messy glory, not often the main topic. We will be initiating a new collective work with joy prioritised over productivity. Doing more than thinking. Playing as a way to overcome anxiety. A chance to locate, explore and relish in our own personal appetites for enjoyment and discuss the barriers we have to finding that euphoric glee. Will it be possible? That blissful feeling can be hard to articulate but we're going to try. We will start out with a tuning meditation as a way to find each other and find our feet on the ground. As a group of friends we must trust each other and let each other play. An opening exercise in attentiveness and letting go. Then we will draw an exquisite corpse in which everyone’s idiosyncrasies will come through but ultimately the end result will be bigger than the individual. A time to contemplate and discuss our relationships to joy. Then let’s take this drawing, this still and quiet exercise, and turn it into a choreographed dance. Let's get bodily! We will become a group of friends and discuss our experiences of joy personally and collectively. There's no right. There's no wrong. There's just us. https://rosedagul.com/Solo-Performance Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:29:39 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Solo-Performance Some Solo Performances&nbsp; <img width="5277" height="3518" width_o="5277" height_o="3518" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c141a003b7fdd01195277887b3a24b52c8c62b18fdcca6ad9721abfabead835/DSCF7318.jpg" data-mid="193607397" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c141a003b7fdd01195277887b3a24b52c8c62b18fdcca6ad9721abfabead835/DSCF7318.jpg" /> <img width="3025" height="2017" width_o="3025" height_o="2017" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e8f3f52d51162035cd0144fc6c75feb7e6b2dcd3026ee64d4e3375a707db3f3/DSCF7317.jpg" data-mid="193607395" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e8f3f52d51162035cd0144fc6c75feb7e6b2dcd3026ee64d4e3375a707db3f3/DSCF7317.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1006d779027158f573a7fccdc34eb6983ddcca9dc957612e4b7dd348961a2aa9/DSCF7301.jpg" data-mid="193607389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1006d779027158f573a7fccdc34eb6983ddcca9dc957612e4b7dd348961a2aa9/DSCF7301.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1ef16c9e5893029f45c42e5a1bbdd97548dd52bc93c7d154034f0302910b267/DSCF7306.jpg" data-mid="193607391" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1ef16c9e5893029f45c42e5a1bbdd97548dd52bc93c7d154034f0302910b267/DSCF7306.jpg" /> <img width="5131" height="3421" width_o="5131" height_o="3421" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d774c07f21929c1372869e94302c3f440325017358d383cff5487dfa28670de/DSCF7327.jpg" data-mid="193607399" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d774c07f21929c1372869e94302c3f440325017358d383cff5487dfa28670de/DSCF7327.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83a784b2689b42385c5fc5edac69f1a06f261de1f53d8c986ebd706e1fa78a51/DSCF7313.jpg" data-mid="193607393" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83a784b2689b42385c5fc5edac69f1a06f261de1f53d8c986ebd706e1fa78a51/DSCF7313.jpg" /> <img width="5126" height="3417" width_o="5126" height_o="3417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f921f73c45f892e1d7305d308c3d4ecb39bd23697e44b9247c23abc9c886117c/DSCF7336.jpg" data-mid="193607401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f921f73c45f892e1d7305d308c3d4ecb39bd23697e44b9247c23abc9c886117c/DSCF7336.jpg" /> At Practice Solo performance, cello, voice, pedals (August 2023) Curated by Jude Browning, David Dale Gallery &amp; Studios. Photos by Erik Osberg. <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7845dc2af687e59702f8bce890c82e22424314797381d9a66b9758802e3b553/173E20ED-CC06-4439-AC4E-9CF496AF01A0.JPG" data-mid="155854949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7845dc2af687e59702f8bce890c82e22424314797381d9a66b9758802e3b553/173E20ED-CC06-4439-AC4E-9CF496AF01A0.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c5b208bf273110f505aaccc10ce01585d813270599eae2f51299e9f85fb3aba/IMG_7995.JPG" data-mid="155854374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c5b208bf273110f505aaccc10ce01585d813270599eae2f51299e9f85fb3aba/IMG_7995.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d94a22d86f3078f15afb37f578db45836b2805fc034213bd790e2a3ca30ee292/IMG_8020.JPG" data-mid="155854428" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d94a22d86f3078f15afb37f578db45836b2805fc034213bd790e2a3ca30ee292/IMG_8020.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/257f0fc8504e454a5188314f05489e061a2465e6984dfc6db9356a3f11cc3ddd/IMG_8016.JPG" data-mid="155854461" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/257f0fc8504e454a5188314f05489e061a2465e6984dfc6db9356a3f11cc3ddd/IMG_8016.JPG" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7b915d4a54441cc822c460866b5f3debf581c80c1228bd38c41b04d7e393945/11DFED80-B7EB-4551-B4F9-2EDE0429A6E6.JPG" data-mid="155855001" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7b915d4a54441cc822c460866b5f3debf581c80c1228bd38c41b04d7e393945/11DFED80-B7EB-4551-B4F9-2EDE0429A6E6.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67c8c205fa64de4094f44b243207e972f500883b359e2b64944bd08e1f86f247/IMG_7999.JPG" data-mid="155854537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67c8c205fa64de4094f44b243207e972f500883b359e2b64944bd08e1f86f247/IMG_7999.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5de91bcfd6582b5f2f97f5f44a32b6887f9bae1712b83a9306bf39a356973ca5/IMG_8021.JPG" data-mid="155854429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5de91bcfd6582b5f2f97f5f44a32b6887f9bae1712b83a9306bf39a356973ca5/IMG_8021.JPG" /> Never Knowingly Understood Solo performance, cello, voice, mobile phone and loop pedal (2019) Commissioned by Charlie Godet Thomas. A response to DIM LIT, Assembly Point, Peckham, Thursday 18th April, 2019 Collaging bits of unfinished songs… I haven’t made an album yet. Some sung, some a capella, some recorded. Maybe some cello? What’s the worst that can happen? I’m nervous! I’ve never performed in a gallery before. This must respond to Charlie’s work somehow… would singing the titles be too obvious? I must make something new. I can’t just perform my songs, can I? This isn’t a gig. Rose Dagul Performing at Assembly Point, London from Charlie Godet Thomas on Vimeo. Live Improvisations&nbsp; Fischinger Would Imagine Far Away Type ThingsSolo performance, cello, voice, laptop, midi controller, projection (2015) Rose Dagul - Fischinger Would Imagine Far Away Type Things, 2015 (excerpt) An improvised performance using cello, voice and live coding using MaxMSP.&nbsp;Chorus Solo performance, cello, voice and pedals (2015) Rose Dagul - Chorus, 2015 (excerpts) https://rosedagul.com/The-Surround-1 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:32:07 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/The-Surround-1 The Surround Artist-run initiative / DIY space (2015 and ongoing) Collaboration with Penny Klein <img width="1365" height="2048" width_o="1365" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a55a936cbc6713b50cd7a082ed65936220aaf95e50752dd459b3934836f1cf6b/14902780_1266811070047857_4021180064755352050_o.jpg" data-mid="156472558" border="0" 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It is a space that nurtures and encourages musicians and artists to showcase new work; a flexible, morphing platform for our own compositions and that of others. As musicians and performers we wanted a place where we could test out new pieces and experiment freely. We noticed the breadth of work being made around us and wanted to create an opportunity to meet regularly and share these ongoing experiments with others. We began curating DIY events, called Surroundings, in and around Peckham, London, inviting those working within the parameters of music and performance to show their work. We encourage those in particular who are unsure of where to take their experiments and strive to create a welcoming environment for those who want to share unfinished, uncertain ideas. We have hosted twenty-one events to date in different locations. We have been able to gain access to unusual spaces thanks to the support of friends within the wide circle that has formed. For instance, Safehouses 1 and 2 are two gutted terraced houses in Peckham. Various walls have been knocked through, a mezzanine level has formed because of a half-removed ceiling, the building is full of nooks and crannies, and creates a sprawling, intimate space for performances to be scattered around. On a bigger scale the abandoned Averard Hotel in Lancaster Gate, now under development, was full of grand, vacant rooms, mottled mirrors and spiral staircases. Performers were stationed in all corners of the building, and the audience was guided from room to room to watch the entertainment unfold. The space is as important as the performers. It dictates the tone of the evening, the acoustics, the limits on the technology we use and we are determined to keep using these unoccupied, usually inaccessible, interesting spaces to host our events. We think it is important that spaces like this remain seen and inhabited when possible, and that the events remain surprising while we explore these hidden enclaves within London.&nbsp; Each event has attracted a variable audience of between 50 and 200 people. The events are always eclectic - we have been careful to not align ourselves with any specific genre or movement, as we believe that it is the collision of different musical backgrounds that creates some of the most unexpected and exciting sparks, and we always curate each night with this in mind. It is important to us that a classical composer may be on the same bill as a noise artist, or someone working primarily with film, or a poet, or a pop act. Collaborations have emerged, work has had the space to develop, and an ecosystem of ideas and influences has grown. The Surround is a part of our practice. We do not see these events as something that runs separately from our own work as artists. The process of curating and hosting the events informs the work we make and the collaborations that we have personally formed, directly out of providing this platform, have enriched and advanced our own practice and the community involved. The Surround’s ethos is: there is no stage (the artists can perform where they like), it’s regular (the platform provides a deadline/opportunity to show work), it’s nomadic (we have no ‘home’, different space is important and the artists can respond as they feel), it’s non-genre specific (we have had techno sets, followed by pop, followed by poetry, followed by classical, and more). In addition to the events we have, to date, produced four recorded compilations for limited edition cassette tape and online streaming, where we invite everyone who has been involved in our events to contribute an audio recording between 30 seconds and 6 minutes in length, In December 2018 we were the featured artist of Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone Xmas Special on BBC 6 Music. 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/850/i/8f58b9ac43f3fd7e6938d2ccc0b937b0c6350d71b4e871a8df866363ccf3bc00/1.jpg" /> <img width="1457" height="2048" width_o="1457" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aac553e8d64d0f4c1b2c49b45c5c7453697ff8924d2756dec7bb940f29a56537/2.jpg" data-mid="156082095" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aac553e8d64d0f4c1b2c49b45c5c7453697ff8924d2756dec7bb940f29a56537/2.jpg" /> The Surround posters (select), all by Penny Klein Events and releases to date: Surrounding 1 // 17.12.15 – Safehouse 1, Peckham Surrounding 2 // 21.1.16 – The Nines, Peckham Surrounding 3 // 4.3.16 – Safehouse 1, Peckham Surrounding 4 // 21.4.16 – Asylum, Peckham Surrounding 5 // 25.5.16 – Averard Hotel, Lancaster Gate Surrounding 6 // 17.7.16 – Safehouse 2, Peckham Surrounding 7 // 31.8.16 – Asylum, Peckham The Surround X SeenThrough// 29.10.16 – Averard Hotel, Lancaster Gate The Surround Christmas Album // Released: 16.12.16 Surrounding 8 // 19.12.16 – Safehouse 1, Peckham The Surround presents: Haddow // 6.1.17 – Silver Road, Lewisham Surrounding 9 // 9.3.17 – SET, Bermondsey Surrounding 10 // 6.4.17 – Capstan House, Poplar The Surround presents: The Sonologists // 12.5.17 – The Greenwich Pensioner, Poplar The Surround Summer Solstice Album // Released: 21.6.17 Surrounding 11 // 22.6.17 – Capstan House, Poplar Surrounding 12 // 15.9.17 – Bunker Club, Deptford The Surround X F.L.C. // 30.11.17 – DIY Space for London, Bermondsey The Surround Christmas Album 2 // Released: 25.12.18 Surrounding 13 // 26.2.18 – SET, Dalston Surrounding 14 // 3.5.18 – The Ivy House, Nunhead The Surround X The Re-Imagined // 11.5.18 – Lighthouse, Brighton Surrounding 15 // 12.8.18 – a tree, Greenwich Park Surrounding 16 // 29.9.18 – 504, Brixton Surrounding 17 // 20.12.18 – SET, Dalston The Surround Christmas Album 3 // Released: 20.12.18 The Surround New Year Album // Released: 13.02.20Link: The Surround Bandcamp The Surround New Year Album by The Surround https://rosedagul.com/Tuesday-Plays Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:58:43 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Tuesday-Plays The Tuesday Plays Remote performance &amp;&nbsp; video on Instagram (2020)&nbsp; Collaboration with Benji Jeffrey and the writers The Tuesday Plays were a project created in collaboration with Benji Jeffrey during lockdown, 2020. We wanted to connect creatively in a time when we were all so far apart, so we put a call out for plays to be written with a quick turnaround which we then performed weekly, as you may have guessed, on Tuesdays. These plays, performed over Zoom, were then shared on Instagram.We'd quite like to do more of these in the future so if you fancy sending us a play to perform please do contact me!&nbsp; 1.T.R.Deeks - Lettice &amp; Lindsey 2.Alex Culshaw - Lettice &amp; Lindsay Pt.2 3.Penny Klein - Lou &amp; Leslie 4. Sophie Nibbs - Lettuce &amp; Lindsey Pt.3 5. Rob Bidder - Lee &amp; Leanne 6. Sarah Hatcher - Lou &amp; Leslie Pt.2 7. Chloe Bonfield - Lilo &amp; Lolo 8. Amy Lay-Pettifer - Lena &amp; Lol 9. Justine Melford-Colegate - Lena &amp; Lujo 10. Ralph Pritchard - Legarde &amp; Lime 11. Benji Jeffrey - L'aura &amp; Laura https://rosedagul.com/Untitled-for-cello-mangle-youtube-and-voice Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:14:15 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Untitled-for-cello-mangle-youtube-and-voice Untitled for cello, mangle, youtube and voice Score, Recording, Installation, Performance (2017 and ongoing) Collaboration with Lisa Busby. Iteration 2: Installation and performance, Gallery 46, Whitechapel, in group show Liminality (Temporal Impressions), 4-30th July 2019 Iteration 1: Recorded realisation broadcast on Radiophrenia, CCA Glasgow, 7 November 2017 This, as yet untitled, work exists as a series of movable parts; material and immaterial elements, not all of which need to surface in any given iteration. These include - scored elements both notated and instructional, performance objects and materials, songs by other artists, youtube videos, conversations between collaborators. Developed from a shared interest in making process activities visible; and intangible connections, hidden layers, and emergent materials of the compositional process. The first iteration, commissioned by RadioPhrenia presented a series of six semi-improvised studies for cello, amplified mangle, and voice, in linear sequence with processed youtube audio ARCHIVE_ 10 Years Ago Today Britney Shaves Heads And Gets Tattooed! by X17Online Video [For all the latest Celebrity Gossip, Entertainment News and the best Paparazzi Photos and Video]. Pitch material for cello generated by application of various filtering exercises to Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Hallelujah, and Britney Spears Toxic. Objects in performance of mangle include chalk, sugar, USB drives, tampons. Other performance instructions, for both instruments, derived from Fleetway Foldaway Wringer instructions for use. Conversations during the making process reflected on intangible experiences of everyday anxiety, fear and despair, and by contrast the ways we have to represent or articulate them; Britney’s instagram account; ASMR, slime and hydraulic press videos on youtube; does Lisa’s dad have any tools that we can crush things with; Rihanna ’Diamonds’; an interview with Robert Wyatt that Rose heard (Late Junction?); listening to Anne Griffiths Codiaeum Variegatum; recent/various reading on vulnerability, sadness, sickness and hysteria in relation to empowerment and resistance. For Gallery 46 Iteration 1 was installed as an object and sound installation, and a second iteration was created. The artists utilised the space as an open studio 23-25 July 2019, and built on the original materials to create a set of original songs for live performance on the culminating evening of the residency. Reading during the making process included Sappho, Giacometti, Angela Carter, and Kiš The Encyclopaedia of the Dead; and conversations circled around the shared and the private. These songs were then recorded in October 2019 collaboration with Sean Woodlock at the Goldsmiths Music Studio - release date forthcoming. Radiophrenia · Lisa Busby &amp; Rose Dagul - Untitled for cello, mangle, youtube &amp; voice <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59581a4f31cedb270df58266e5759684fc1a22f0f6d6fb3cf4f1f5dba18d2b3f/Still-2.jpeg" data-mid="155851871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59581a4f31cedb270df58266e5759684fc1a22f0f6d6fb3cf4f1f5dba18d2b3f/Still-2.jpeg" /><img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38913d63fc769101c88d4ca7e7c8c8030246fa1b71612561301db80529fc02ae/Still-3.jpeg" data-mid="155851884" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38913d63fc769101c88d4ca7e7c8c8030246fa1b71612561301db80529fc02ae/Still-3.jpeg" /> Live Performance (excerpt) at Gallery 46, 2019 https://rosedagul.com/Peckham-Chamber-Orchestra-1 Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:41:02 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Peckham-Chamber-Orchestra-1 Peckham Chamber Orchestra PCO is a small not-for-profit orchestra with a revolving roster of between 25 and 35 players including strings and woodwind who play music from a variety of different classical eras but also new compositions created by members and friends with a more contemporary twist. The orchestra was founded in 2013 by Hannah Catherine Jones and is now run collectively by members of the orchestra. The ethos of the orchestra is to be rooted in Peckham and its local community and be inclusive and sociableA member from the beginning, playing the cello, I began composing for the orchestra in 2014. Here is some of the work we did together.Link: Peckham Chamber Orchestra website After Meditation (2016)I was commissioned by Peckham Chamber Orchestra to compose a piece that would emerge from a performance of Tuning Meditation by Pauline Oliveros. it was premiered at Peckham Chamber Orchestra's concert #10 on 13/12/16, and performed again at Surrounding 8 on 19/12/16.(NB: The video is from the performance at The Surround, beginning with Oliveros’ Tuning Meditation, turning into my piece at around 11 minutes. Frustratingly it cuts out halfway through, misses a chunk out, then continues in the second video) <img width="1448" height="2048" width_o="1448" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e4e5d9817cc746d7984aa90dfd684c3f1cc0fed6caef37dfb84df7e0cd7ee13/15235823_383993718599652_4255939672167454229_o.jpg" data-mid="156386392" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e4e5d9817cc746d7984aa90dfd684c3f1cc0fed6caef37dfb84df7e0cd7ee13/15235823_383993718599652_4255939672167454229_o.jpg" /> I screamed “Girl Power” (2017) A Spice Girls medley! The arrangement is available on request. <img width="588" height="830" width_o="588" height_o="830" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19f26de2c435aebdaf95662e38e319ed99a562e5a96faf86ca2cffe0efa8a54c/a2fbff_ffc1b160cca549158234857507fa6026_mv2.jpg" data-mid="156386450" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/588/i/19f26de2c435aebdaf95662e38e319ed99a562e5a96faf86ca2cffe0efa8a54c/a2fbff_ffc1b160cca549158234857507fa6026_mv2.jpg" /> Ode to the Old Kent Hell Raisers (2014) Ode to the Old Kent Hellraisers (2014)Part 1: The Surround Part 2: The All Around Perhaps you know the legend already or perhaps you don’t. I’m sure a friend can fill you in, but allow me to&nbsp;summarize anyway: One day, in late 2011, a VHS copy of “Hellraiser” appeared atop a bus stop on&nbsp;theOld&nbsp;Kent Road. Despite speculation, its origin remains a mystery. If you were&nbsp;to&nbsp;pass that same bus stop today, you would not only see one, lonely, single VHS, but in fact seven copies of “Hellraiser”, alongside three copies of “Toy Story” and a copy of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Robin William’s classic “Jack”. I must confess that I haven’t been past it in a while though, and considering&nbsp;the&nbsp;recent press this, now famed (google search it), London bus stop has been getting, who knows what you’ll see on top of it today. I love this urban legend. It epitomizes&nbsp;the&nbsp;curiosity and conversation that your own accidental and seemingly insignificant acts can spark in other people. “Ode to the Old Kent Hellraisers” is in two parts: “The&nbsp;Surround”, a new arrangement of an&nbsp;old&nbsp;song; and its response: “The&nbsp;All Around”. Both were written during&nbsp;the&nbsp;same month, in&nbsp;the&nbsp;same room, in&nbsp;the&nbsp;same house in Rhoscolyn, Anglesey, but 4 years apart. I wrote&nbsp;the&nbsp;Surround when I was 22, amid a typical existential crisis for that age (we’ve all been there) and although this bore no significance at&nbsp;the&nbsp;time, it certainly does now.&nbsp;The&nbsp;All Around, written just a few months ago, is an&nbsp;ode&nbsp;to&nbsp;The&nbsp;Surround in retrospective; just as&nbsp;the&nbsp;second, third, seventh “Hellraiser” tape was an&nbsp;ode&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;first. Themes battle it out&nbsp;to&nbsp;bethe&nbsp;most dominant, unison comes and goes, and a narrative is created. It’s life, my friends, and it’s beautiful. <img width="500" height="707" width_o="500" height_o="707" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c3b0fba348fef34b5186f241310d4b117866dbb6fed8d0ed39bdcede67ce524/tumblr_inline_ntbx0mQOFm1qh121f_500.jpeg" data-mid="156386449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/4c3b0fba348fef34b5186f241310d4b117866dbb6fed8d0ed39bdcede67ce524/tumblr_inline_ntbx0mQOFm1qh121f_500.jpeg" /> https://rosedagul.com/Part-of-the-Order-of-Things Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:33:34 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Part-of-the-Order-of-Things A Song for Wimbledon School of Art:&nbsp; Part of the Order of Things&nbsp; Songwriting commission (2021)Wimbledon Fine Art 2021 · Part Of The Order Of Things (A Song For Wimbledon) by Rose Dagul I was commissioned to write a song to mark the closing of Fine Art department at Wimbledon.Writing this song, as an alumnus of PTBM at Wimbledon myself, I was reminded of all the ways that it supported me, inspired me, and helped me find myself – all the intangible ways that I didn’t see at the time. I don’t think you realise how much a place has changed you until years after. It’s worth reinforcing the importance of spaces like Wimbledon. As one staff member said*, there’s “…an ethos of gentleness here, where people can feel confident to make a creative fool of themselves and build something genuine and original from that glorious mess”. The things that I remember most vividly from my time studying here are little moments, fragments: interactions with friends during lunch time, being in a studio surrounded by people making stuff, the outrageous (definitely not risked assessed!) things that people did. One example of many: watching someone in my class build a wrestling ring and then wrestle… a chair, whilst another student played the role of referee, and heavy metal music played out of a massive PA system. Wimbledon slowly, quietly, gave me permission to make what I wanted. And ultimately built my confidence to start making music (I entered here as a painter, and left a musician!) The refrain of the song comes directly from a story another alumnus* told me about the wood-work technician going above and beyond to restore his grandfather’s wooden plane. “It’s all part of the order of things” was what the technician said when they handed the plane back to the student. Quite a whimsical remark on the surface but, as the student said themselves, with a subtext that he didn’t get at the time… a slight bitterness perhaps? Now, as an educator, I have seen behind the curtain of HE in the UK – the student satisfaction surveys, budgets, all the seemingly necessary, quantifiable things that appear antithetical to creative practice. Yet, this hasn’t dimmed the knowledge of the magical, messy space that Wimbledon carved out, and the vital possibility within it. These things co-exist. I am sad that Fine Art at Wimbledon is ending, and I rejoice in the multiple ways it will continue. *This was Jennet Thomas *This was Richard Whitby https://rosedagul.com/Rhosyn-1 Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:58:42 +0000 Rose Dagul https://rosedagul.com/Rhosyn-1 Rhosyn Songwriting and performing (2009-2020) Rhosyn was my songwriting persona whilst based in London.&nbsp;Rhosyn, with The Florence Lawrence Chorus - Never Again, Live at SET Dalston, 2018 Elbow Of Capture, was my only official release, 4 March 2013.&nbsp; <img width="2268" height="2268" width_o="2268" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/11d7cbe533bd421935cc2356db25e70720d90a807bc6a7694be4179c69de9f63/Rhosyn-Elbow.jpg" data-mid="155829230" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/11d7cbe533bd421935cc2356db25e70720d90a807bc6a7694be4179c69de9f63/Rhosyn-Elbow.jpg" />An Elbow of Capture by Rhosyn Rhosyn - Never Again, 2018. Visuals by Benji Jeffrey Rhosyn - The All Around, Live at SET Dalston, 2018 Rhosyn - Volcano Live, 2013 Songs 2010-2017 by Rhosyn