Performance

Vinyl Pizza DJ Party!! (Norwich Arts Centre)

A light-hearted performance combining messages on empty pizza boxes, attempting to DJ with hand-cranked pizza box turntables, wrecking yellow vinyl records with a cheese grater, hole-punching flexi discs for garnish and helium balloons…!

 

Bow/Rub/Pluck (Norwich Arts Centre)

Showcasing an amazing array of sounds that can be obtained from amplified coil springs in this sound-based semi-improvised performance work. A combination of friction mallets, violin bow and plucking the springs was employed.

 

Justified Procrastination (Shop Art! Live):

Playing the role of a bored office worker in this durational performance of doing nothing in particular. I drank a lot of coffee, read the thankfully now defunct News of The World and sprouted nonsense about office management strategies to visitors for several hours.

 

Microphone/Drill (Norwich Arts Centre):

As the title suggests, a large drill was employed to destroy a vocal microphone in this brief and destructive noise performance.

 

Long Winded In Five Parts (SPILL Festival National Platform & FIRSTS 09)

A live art performance in the guise of a classical concert, and an absurd exploration of sound, space and material. Three performers present a mixture of highly choreographed and improvised scenarios, led by a musical score which is designed to explore five aspects of the musical potential of modelling balloons. “A lighthearted triumph that had me giggling from subdued start to cathartic finish”.

Dot Howard, Holly Rumble performed Longwinded in Five Parts at the SPILL Festival National Platform (National Theatre Studios) 18th April 2009 and again for FIRSTS 09 at the Linbury Studio Theatre (Royal Opera House) London on the 20th & 21st November 2009.

The piece was developed as a result of an experiment during the Weekend of Art That’s Difficult to Describe in August 2008

 

Unnoticed Audio (Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery)

A durational sound-based site specific performance concentrating on amplifying and performing with often quiet and unnoticed sounds within the Café and Rotunda area of the Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery. Utilising a contact microphone attached to wither my hand or an object/surface. Within the allocated time my aim was to investigate and perform interesting sonic textures I encountered often to an unsuspecting member of the public.