Ascsoms

Dead Fingers Talk Live
18th July 18:00 – 21:00

Ascsoms and Solina Hi-Fi performed works inspired by the cut-up experiments of William S. Burroughs and the exhibition Dead Fingers Talk. Read More…

‘Dr W, the experimenter’ © The Burroughs Trust

Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs
28th May – 18th July 2010

Alma/Joe Ambrose, Steve Aylett, Alex Baker & Kit Poulson, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence English, The Human Separation, Riccardo Iacono, Anthony Joseph, Cathy Lane, Eduardo Navas, Negativland, o.blaat, Aki Onda, Jörg Piringer, Plastique Fantastique, Simon Reuben White, Giorgio Sadotti, Scanner, Terre Thaemlitz, Thomson & Craighead, Laureana Toledo and Ultra-red, with performances by Ascsoms and Solina Hi-Fi.

Dead Fingers Talk was an exhibition presenting two unreleased tape experiments by William Burroughs from the mid 1960s alongside responses by 23 artists, musicians, writers, composers and curators. Read More…

Installation view of ‘An Exploration of Perforated Space in Four Segments Words’ 2010

NaoKo TakaHashi – An Exploration of Perforated Space in Four Segments of Words
5th February – 4th April 2010

An Exploration of Perforated Space in Four Segments Words was a site-specific commission by artist NaoKo TakaHashi. Read More…

Noise Control Symposium
5th December 2009 15:00-18:00

Symposium in which speakers Anne Hilde Neset, Deputy Editor of The Wire, and the writer, composer, sound artist and broadcaster Robert Worby were invited to address issues of sonic practice raised by the exhibition Noise Control. Read More…

Installation view of ‘Earth Harmonics’ by Alex Paschali 2009

Noise Control
30th November – 6th December 2009

Performance Evening: Thursday 3 December 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Symposium: Saturday 5 December 3:00 – 6:00 pm

An exhibition of new works by eight sound artists, Noise Control addressed the manner in which we deal with the subtle balance between different concepts of noise and how it undergoes transformation in the arts. Read More…

From ‘Songbook’ by Wojciech Kosma 2009

Songbook Talk
19th September 2009 6:00 – 9:00 PM

To accompany the exhibition Songbook, IMT hosted an artists’ talk with Polish artist and composer Wojciech Kosma on Saturday 19 September from 18:00 – 21:00. Through the talk Roger Redgate, composer and Head of Compoosition at Goldsmiths College, and Mark Jackson, Project Co-ordinator at IMT, discussed with Kosma the motivations behind Songbook, and issues raised by the work in the exhibition. Read More…

Installation view of ‘Songbook’ 2009

Wojciech Kosma – Songbook
21st August – 18th October 2009

An exhibition of cutting edge musical compositions by Polish artist Wojciech Kosma, in which art, artist and audience intersect. In autumn 2009 IMT hosted an interactive exhibition of Kosma’s scores, directions for musical pieces and art works, the majority of which had never been published or performed before. Read More…

Maybe a Herm Talk
28th February 2009 6:00 – 9:00 PM

Talk with artist Alain Miller and Maria von Köhler on the exhibition Maybe a Herm, and the performance of a sonic interpretation of the exhibition by audio artist Ascsoms. Read More…

Wojciech Kosma – Headfuck and Other Contemporary Chamber Music
12th December 2008

An evening of innovative contemporary music performed by the Wrong Ensemble, an experimental music group established in 2008 by Polish visual artist and composer Wojciech Kosma. Read More…

Installation view of ‘Audio Forensics’ 2008

Audio Forensics Symposium
30th November 2008 3:00 – 6:00 PM

Symposium in which key note speakers David Toop, curator of Sonic Boom, the UK’s largest ever exhibition of sound art, and Steven Connor, professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, addressed issues of sonic practice raised by the Audio Forensics exhibition. Read More…