Sat, 25 Nov
|The Sill Landscape Discovery Centre
Kit Haigh - Concrète Mixeur
A unique hands-on interactive console, styled to resemble something from the 1960s era BBC Radiophonic Workshop show as part of the Trailblazer Exhibition
Time & Location
25 Nov 2023, 10:00 – 16:00
The Sill Landscape Discovery Centre , Once Brewed, Hexham NE47 7AN, UK
About the Event
Kit Haigh - Concrète Mixeur
A unique hands-on interactive console, styled to resemble something from the 1960s era BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Play with the vintage knobs and buttons to create your own mix of loops, swoops and samples inspired by Delia Derbyshire’s Musique Concrète sound archive at The John Rylands Institute, Manchester. Concrète Mixeur has been commisssioned by Green Croft Arts for the Trailblazer Exhibition.
Kit Haigh is a multi skilled artist with numerous award winning credits, working across music, photography, sound design and installation. His varied musical career has included major label releases with The Flaming Mussolinis, representing the UK in the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, composing for stage and screen including EMMY winning C4 documentary ‘The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off', long-term collaboration with Kathryn Tickell and performances with Maddy Prior, June Tabor and Dame Evelyn Glennie. Always hands-on with technology, he has award winning production credits and has toured internationally as a live sound engineer, built his own guitar rigs, photographic sets and furniture, and creates interactive installations with music & visual content that responds to movement.