Updates, latest news and information about Silent Cacophony 2013 event across London
8th January 2015: A Silent Cacophony in Paris - Window at Platform-7 Waste.Agency intervention following the shooting in Paris at Charlie Hebdo offices [Click to view image of window]
27th June 2014: Candela Delgado’s review of Silent Cacophony published in Harts & Minds Silence & Sound edition 2014 [click to read]
18th June 2014: Read Professor Andy Pratt and his team at City University (formally King's) excellent Arts Humanities Research Council funded (via Creativeworks London) report on Silent Cacophony here
15th June 2014: Latest news will have a host posts upcoming with a number of new blog post reflecting on this series of performances.
24th November 2013: Silent Cacophony website passes 10,000 pageviews, a first for one of Platform-7's abstract art events, and over 5,500 pageviews on the Londonist map
24th November 2013: Bagpiper Duncan Menzies on Bow Roundabout with poem by Anna Orhanen [click]
23rd November 2013: Poet Alain English discusses the terror of reading poetry randomly in Weavers Fields in Tower Hamlets [click]
23rd November 2013: Word Raid 5 of 6; several interruptions take place in the latest installment of this clever intervention by David Lee Morgan, Jonathan Lockwood, Andy Rowe and Tom Westbrook [click]
22nd November 2013: Poetry and live music in the Hague forest, the launch sites of V-rockets on Britain during WWII [click]
22nd November 2013: Nik Storey describes his surreal experience and the reaction of the passing public in Dalston C.L.R James Library [click]
22nd November 2013: 4 of 6 installments of Word Raid – Answer the Call [click]
21st November 2013: An incredible amount of blog posts and feedback of the impact of Silent Cacophony
19th November 2013: Jude Cowen Montague’s poignant evocation of Alf Morris’ account of the Bethnal Green tube disaster captured by Paul Wady [click]
19th November 2013: Silence of Knitting in Liverpool sees Liz Hide reflecting on people she has never met [click]
18th November 2013: 1 of 6 videos, the stunning Word Raid, a original collaboration dissecting poetry
15th November 2013: How a simple misunderstanding brought about by expectation can create potential conflict ''No Cursor on a Manual Typewriter', Nancy Esposito and Liam Donovan [click]
5th November 2013: Brilliant film uploaded by Sharon Hall Shipp of 'silence of knitting' that took place in Ticehurst, East Sussex on Monday 11th November [click]
2th November 2013: Creator on Silent Cacophony:
Yesterday Silent Cacophony demonstrated, for me anyway, how art has the influence to fundamentally change individuals and imbue a sense of empowerment and affect people’s lives and the environment surrounding them. The aftershow gathering was electric, even for all those who were not artists, shared stories of individual artist’s meeting for the first time recounting the same responses; audience and passerbys who engaged reacting deeply in very similar fashion. Many 100s observed and participated with incredible texts of joy beginning to appear early despite the grey, chilly drizzle that fell most of the day. There was a huge amount of emotion going on throughout the events, and I found myself choked up at one point during my little ‘thank you’ last night. There are too many to mention, and too many impacted to say any name without missing off someone, so please take this an individual thank you to everyone who took part, helped, spread the word and generally made the event the experience it was. Loads of images, comments, blog post are coming in already, which will all be posted up over coming week, but I thought I would start with this brilliant brilliant short film away from bustling London. Filmed in East Sussex it really captures the idea of Silent Cacophony and its abstract nature in making people think about the world constructed around them. The wet road from the rain exaggerating the sound of the vehicles is fantastic. Thank You - John Mc x
8th November 2013: Events at a glance page in now available for viewing, download pdf ot print [click]
8th November 2013: Londonist map reaches 2,000 views since launch this afternoon [click]8th November 2013: Westminster City Council have pulled out the stops to allow Daniel Jack McClennan film to be projected onto Tate Britain and big up to Chelsea Collage of Arts for allowing us to use their building as a base for the projector FROM 4.30pm [click]
8th November 2013: Artist Dawn Cole's amazing 'Silence of Knitting' has now expanded to Liverpool, Newark in Nottinghamshire, Ticehurst in East Sussex and Sydney, Australia as well as Margate, Kent, [read more here]
8th November 2013: lovely article on the Londonist http://londonist.com/2013/11/silent-cacophony-london-wide-art-commemorates-remembrance-day.php
7th November 2013: Very innovative intervention in Bloomsbury by artist Rhiannon Armstrong and SHM-Productions. Footsteps on the pavement in Bedford Row mirror a journey taken by a silent Zeppelin airship and its crew on the night of 8th September 1915, when over 40 bombs were dropped on the Bloomsbury area, killing 26 people. It is on a scale of 1:125 and reoriented by 90 degrees. Each footstep corresponds to one of the bombs dropped, and the location it was dropped in [click to read more].
6th November 2013: Maria Alvarez Echenique sculpture ready to install into Dalston C.L.R. James Library [click]
6th November 2013; Poet Dr Rachel Lehrman launches a facebook page to consider mother's silence during conflict, war and remembrance [click]
6th November 2013: This was not a direct war tragedy but one caused by the fear war instils, the crush at Bethnal Green Tube [click]
5th November 2013: All confirmed for Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, MA Music Theatre intervention in Swiss Cottage library of John Cage’s 4’33” for choir [click]
25th October 2013: Poster and Flyers sent to printers, should begin appearing from 31st October 2013 [click] 25th October 2013: Tower Hamlets have agreed Duncan Menzies (Bagpiper at Bow Roundabout), Alain English (Poetry in Weavers Fields) and Jude Cowen Montague (Poetry, street outside Bethnal Green tube station) 25th October 2013: Artist Eleonora Oreggia will mark this awful infant school tragedy in Poplar, East London [click] 25th October 2013: City of London approve Parlour Collective intervention concluding at the Barbican 24th October 2013: Southeastern are not only allowing the use of Greenwich train station by Camille Desmarest and Garry Scott James dance performance for Silent Cacophony but plan to promote it as well - Sunday and Monday times various:http://www.silentcacophony.co.uk/#!GreenwichC-DesmarestGarry-James/zoom/c13du/image1eq1 23rd October 2013: Swiss Church in Covent Garden confirmed for the Sound Healing with Amanda Kent. A completely different FREE experience for Silent Cacophony www.amandajkent.co.uk 23rd October 2013:Dalston Library (Maria Alvarez Echenique/sculpture), Holborn Library (Terry Duffy/mini-Monuments) and Quakers Friends Garden, Euston (Lenka Horakova/sculpture) all confirmed today as locations for Silent Cacophony 22nd October 2013: New Silent Cacophony logo 22nd October 2013: confirmed details of over 30 events across London and beyond ... http://www.silentcacophony.co.uk/#!event-location-details/c13du 23rd October 2013: Swiss Cottage library confirmed for Royal Central School Speech and Drama, MA Music Theatre's version of John Cage's 4'33"
23rd October 2013: Dalston Library (Maria Alvarez Echenique/sculpture), Holborn Library (Terry Duffy/mini-Monuments) and Quakers Friends Garden, Euston (Lenka Horakova/sculpture) all confirmed today as locations for Silent Cacophony 22nd October 2013: Another fantastic poster created for Platform-7 by Daniel Crawford of Type & Numbers for Silent Cacophony
22nd October 2013: Tower Hamlets have been super efficient in ensuring all of the Silent Cacophony events happening the borough have correct permissions
20th October 2013: Woolworths New Cross Road, blog post [click] 18th October 2013: 'Silence of knitting' by artist Dawn Cole has started to go global literally. 16th October 2013: Camden libraries excited by Terry Duffy's "mini monuments" in Holborn and asked whether something could take place in Swiss Cottage library? So they will get the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama MA Music Theatre's "4.33" performance! 14th October 2013: Risk assessments and artist engagement contracts sent out
13 October 2013: Poet David Neita is looking perform live from Austin, Texas, USA
11th October 2013: St Bride Library confirmed as location for post event gathering
10th October 2013: Artist Dawn Cole Silent Knitting crossing channel to Calais
8th October 2013: Event from Den Haag, Holland, (The Hague) with Dutch poet Harry Zevenbergen
2nd October 2013: Parlour Collective become latest artists to join Silent Cacophony, creating an intervention across Clarkenwell [www.parlourcollective.co.uk]
2nd October 2013: Liam Donovan and Eleonora Oreggia, PhD candidates at Queen Mary, University of London confirm involement.
2nd October 2013: Launch of Blog on Silent Cacophony
2nd September 2013: Arts Council England award Platform-7 funding for Silent Cacophony
22nd August 2013: Holidays over work begins in earnest on Silent Cacophony
17th July 2013: Arts Council England application for Silent Cacophony finally submitted
16th July 2013: Really enthusiastic artist meeting at Made in Greenwich who are coordinating Greenwich aspect of Silent Cacophony http://www.madeingreenwich.co.uk/
15th July 2013: SHM-Productions becomes first commercial company to offer funding towards event
9th July 2013: More artists confirm involvement in Silent Cacophony
3rd July 2013: The Londonist.com become official media partner of ‘Silent Cacophony’
2nd July 2013: Queen Mary, University of London EECS offers financial contribution towards ‘Silent Cacophony’ [click]
1st July 2013: Example page of Silent Cacophony artist framing [click]
30th June 2013: All invitations for Silent Cacophony sent to Platform-7 network artists
28th June 2013: Silent Cacophony website fully operational
21st June 2013: Draft version of Silent Cacophony website published
20th June 2013: Central School of Speech & Drama confirm use of logo and event participation
19th June 2013: Website building begins
17th June 2013: Invitations to Platform-7 artists begins
7th June 2013: Queen Mary, University of London, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science confirms event partnership