鈥淧layback Room鈥 considers studio music as a distinctive art form and its recorded version as the pinnacle of many musicians鈥 production. This series of intimate listening seminars invites a range of artists to share and discuss their own selection of music and recordings that have been an important source of inspiration to their work 补苍诲听lives.
Led by music and culture critic Laura Snapes, this event includes an out-of-hours opportunity to explore the Wolfgang Tillmans听别虫丑颈产颈迟颈辞苍.
Following 30 minutes of selected music our artists lead an hour-long conversation, all taking place within this major exhibition showcasing Wolfgang Tillmans鈥 expanded聽practice.
Wolfgang Tillmans鈥 Playback Room is a space conceived by the artist specifically for listening to recorded music. While museums are dedicated to the contemplation of works of visual art and concert halls allow us to experience live music, no comparable venues exist where visitors can listen to music in its optimum sound聽quality.听
Programme
Monday 20 February 鈥撀爓ith Throwing聽Shade
Monday 27 February 鈥撀爓ith Magz聽Hall
Monday 6 March 鈥 with Anna聽Meredith
Monday 13 March 鈥 with Adam聽Buxton
Monday 20 March 鈥 with Jeremy聽Deller
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Throwing Shade, aka Nabihah Iqbal, is a musician with an MPhil from Cambridge specialising in African history, works in human rights law (predominately in South Africa), a Black Belt in Karate and a rising producer and NTS Radio host whose latest House of Silk EP was released via Ninja Tune in 2016. Having debuted on Kassem Mosse鈥檚 Ominira imprint and followed suit with releases for No Pain In Pop (Patten, Grimes, Forest Swords) and Happy Skull, she continues her patchwork of peripheral pop.听In November 2014, Throwing Shade was commissioned by Tate to compose a piece of music for the Turner Prize. She is currently working on a film soundtrack for a Belgian director, due out later this year.听As well as working on her own productions, Throwing Shade also presents a bi-weekly show on NTS Radio, where she shares weird and wonderful music from around the world, with the aim of playing listeners tunes they won鈥檛 have heard聽before.听
Magz Hall聽is a sound and radio artist and senior lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University UK. Magz heads the artist led group Radio Arts curating works for exhibition, broadcast, workshops and events. Works such as聽Tree Radio, Spiritual Radio, Dream Vessels, Dream Space, Babble Station, Radio Recall, Numbers, Radio Mind, Sound Train聽explore speculative futures of FM reflecting on a 100 years of international radio art practice, which cuts across sound art, radiophonics, music and installation. A founding producer of London鈥檚 Art station Resonance FM, her work has been exhibited at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, British Museum, Tate Britain, the Sainsbury Centre, Whitechapel Gallery, V&A, Jerwood Visual Arts, MACBA Barcelona as well as in Denmark, Italy, Germany, Norway, Morocco, Canada, the USA and broadcast internationally.听聽
Anna Meredith is a composer and producer and after building an established career in the classical world and two critically acclaimed EPs, released her much-anticipated debut album, Varmints on Moshi Moshi Records in March 2016. The critical response was overwhelming with 4 and 5 star reviews across the board from the likes of The Wire, Sunday Times, Loud & Quiet, Uncut, Q Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, DIY and the coveted Best New Music [8.4] on Pitchfork. Loud & Quiet also named it their Album of the Year for 2016.
Aside from sharing bills with聽Anna Calvi, James Blake聽补苍诲听These New Puritans, Meredith鈥檚 dizzying CV includes being Composer in Residence for the聽BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a piece written for MRI scanner, soundtracking聽PRADA鈥檚 Spring/Summer 2015聽campaign, symphonies created for nursery children, music for park benches in Hong Kong and sleep-pods in Singapore. Recent performances at the BBC Proms have included collaborations with聽Laura Marling聽补苍诲听The Stranglers for the first 6 Music Prom, a performance of her body-percussion piece Connect It from the BBC聽Ten Pieces聽project and her Last Night of the Proms composition Froms was simultaneously performed by five symphony orchestras across the UK, was broadcast to an audience of 40 million people. Peformed by the National Youth Orchestra, her piece听贬补苍诲蝉贵谤别别, devised around the explosive clatter and thwack of body percussion received rave reviews from it鈥檚 performances at Southbank Centre, Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre, Utah Youth Symphony and even the M6聽services.
Adam Buxton is a comedian, actor, writer and presenter. Together with comedy partner Joe Cornish he created and hosted the pioneering cult Channel 4 series The Adam & Joe Show. The pair also presented their own show on BBC 6Music and Adam hosted and co-created BUG, a live tour through the strange, innovative and exciting world of music videos and short films on the internet which was also broadcast on聽Sky.听
Adam has appeared in a wealth of TV comedy including The IT Crowd, Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Doctor Who, and The Last Chancers - as well as Adam & Joe Go Tokyo and Adam & Joe鈥檚 American Animation Adventure.听On film, Adam appeared alongside alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in their cop comedy Hot Fuzz, Stardust, and in the acclaimed British indie film Son of Rambow.听Adam made his theatrical debut in I, Pavel - which chronicled the most passionate, most intense and least talented European avante-garde artist of the last 50 years. 聽Adam鈥檚 short film creations have gathered their own following on YouTube and featured in his Sky show BUG.听
Jeremy Deller聽lives and works in London. He studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He works with a variety of media, including video, sculpture, and graphic art, which has emphasized collaborative projects, re-enactments, and public art, through which he has reflected on popular culture in post-industrial England. His most important projects include聽Acid Brass聽1997, Folk Archive聽1999, in collaboration with Alan Kane, The Battle of Orgreave聽2001 and Sacrilege听(a scale model inflatable Stonehenge) 2012. Exhibitions include English Magic for the British Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013, the retrospective Joy in People, Hayward Gallery, 2012 and Iggy Pop Life Class,聽Brooklyn Museum, 2016 . He has also developed curatorial projects, including All That Is Solid Melts Into Air聽2013 and Love is Enough : William Morris and Andy Warhol.
Laura Snapes聽is an award-winning cultural critic and former NME features editor. She currently contributes to The Guardian, The Observer, The Financial Times, Pitchfork, Uncut, NPR, MTV, Fader, Buzzfeed and more. She originally hails from聽Cornwall.