Collaborations with John Drever
Lawrence Upton
Updated May 2012
Speculative Scores (4 channel); 18 minutes approx; live and prerecorded voice + graphic score and projection Lawrence Upton; studio recording, prerecorded sound treatment and composition John Drever; live spatialisation John Drever; as part of Speculative Scores concert of Upton's sound works at Goldsmith, University of London, on Friday 4 May 2012.
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See you (18 minutes approx) as part of Speculative Scores concert of Upton's sound works at Goldsmith, University of London, on Friday 4 May 2012. Visual score as film (this version edited by Lawerence Upton): Wilton Azevedo from Choreographed Utterance by Lawrence Upton from hand-writing in the notebooks of Alaric Sumner. Studio recording: Lawrence Upton (voice), Benedict Taylor (viola). Prepared sound-recording from the studio recording John Levack Drever. Live utterance Lawrence Upton. Live viola Benedict Taylor. Live treatment and spatialisation John Drever.
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See you (25 minutes approx) as part of Light Writing Festival, Sheffield on Thursday 8 December 2011 -- venue details awaited. Visual score as film: Wilton Azevedo from Choreographed Utterance by Lawrence Upton from hand-writing in the notebooks of Alaric Sumner. Studio recording: Lawrence Upton (voice), Benedict Taylor (viola). Prepared sound-recording from the studio recording John Levack Drever. Live utterance Lawrence Upton. Live treatment and spatialisation John Drever.
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See you (15 minutes approx) public workshop version at Carnivale, 2 White Church Lane, London E1 7 QR on Thursday 10 November 2011. Visual score as film: Wilton Azevedo from Choreographed Utterance by Lawrence Upton from hand-writing in the notebooks of Alaric Sumner. Studio recording: Lawrence Upton (voice), Benedict Taylor (viola). Prepared sound-recording from the studio recording John Levack Drever. Live utterance Lawrence Upton. Live treatment John Drever.
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Speculative Scores (4 channel); 18 minutes approx; live and prerecorded voice + graphic score and projection Lawrence Upton; studio recording, prerecorded sound treatment and composition John Drever; live spatialisation John Drever; premiered at e-poetry 2011 in Black Box Theatre, SUNY Buffalo on 21 May 2011
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Study
19; (8 channel); 12
minutes; live and prerecorded voice + graphic score and projection Lawrence
Upton; studio recording, samples and prerecorded sound treatment and
composition John Drever; live spatialisation John Drever; The Shunt
Lounge; evening of 11th June
2010
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Hypothetical; (8 channel); 15 minutes approx; text,
live voice and projections Lawrence Upton; live shakuhachi Mike McInerney;
studio treatment of and composition with recorded voice and recorded
shakuhachi, and live treatment of voice and sound John Drever; presented at Goldsmiths 14 November 2009 as part of Lawrence
Upton at 60
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NAMELY for Peter Manson (Quicktime movie); 21
minutes 30 seconds; Goldsmiths EMS; Friday 5th March 2010. Presented Writers Forum
Workshop Saturday 13th
March 2010. Presented "continuous play" at post_moot convocation
2010, Oxford, Ohio from
Thursday, April 22 2010 until Sunday, April 25 2010. Published in the magazine Emerging
Language Practices 1 in
2010. Shown in Notation and Interpretation at ICA. 16th to 20th
February 2011.
NAMELY for Peter Manson (4 channel); 21 minutes approx; text, pre-recorded
voice, projections and live voice Lawrence Upton; studio treatment of and
composition with recorded voice, and live treatment of voice and sound and
spatialisation John Drever; presented at BEYOND SIGNAL #8 PO-E-TRY FESTAL,
Nantes, France on Friday 26th February 2010.
NAMELY for Peter Manson (8 channel); new studio version; 21 minutes approx;
text, voice and projections Lawrence Upton; studio and live treatment of and
composition with recorded voice John Drever; without live intervention by
Upton, presented at Goldsmiths 14 November 2009 as part of Lawrence Upton at
60
NAMELY for Peter Manson (stereo); studio version; 21 minutes approx; text,
voice and projections Lawrence Upton; studio treatment of and composition with
recorded voice John Drever; without live intervention by Upton or Drever,
presented at ICA London 17 August 2009; and again at Laban 5th November 2009
NAMELY for Peter Manson (stereo); 21 minutes approx; text, pre-recorded voice,
projections and live voice Lawrence Upton; studio treatment of and composition
with recorded voice, and live treatment of voice and sound John Drever;
presented at The London Horse Hospital on 23rd May 2009. Commissioned
by Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College, London
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That the tongue is a whip (8-channel version); 10 minutes approx.; text,
pre-recorded voice, projections and live voice Lawrence Upton; studio treatment
of and composition with recorded voice, additional sound sampling, and live
treatment of voice and sound John Drever; presented at Great Hall,
Goldsmiths - Sound Practice Research Concert on 21st November 2008
That the tongue is a whip (revised stereo version); 10 minutes approx.;
text, pre-recorded voice, projections and live voice Lawrence Upton; studio
treatment of and composition with recorded voice, additional sound sampling,
and live treatment of voice and sound John Drever; presented at Laban on 6th November
2008
That the tongue is a whip (transitional stereo version); 10 minutes
approx.; text, pre-recorded voice and projections Lawrence Upton; studio
treatment of and composition with recorded voice, additional sound sampling
John Drever; presented as aural illustration to a solo talk on the
collaboration series given by Upton to The Thursday Club on 9th October 2008
NAMING for Ricki Redhead [That the tongue is a whip] (first stereo
version); 10 minutes approx.; text, pre-recorded voice, projections and live
voice Lawrence Upton; treatment of recorded voice, additional sound sampling
John Drever; The Shunt Lounge, London Bridge; 5th June 2008.
The raw text of NAMING for Ricki Redhead has been web-published by Poetics
Canada 8. This collaborative performance piece was later renamed "That the
tongue is a whip."
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Verbal Iteration 3; 19 minutes 30 seconds; 4 channels; text Lawrence
Upton; live voice Lawrence Upton; live sound treatment and spatialisation John
Drever; projections by Lawrence Upton; The Hub, Plymouth as part of Sonic
Arts Network Expo 2007 June 2007. This piece is a reworking of Verbal
Iteration 2
[The texts used in this performance work were taken from the set of
sixty texts published as Verbals by Lawrence Upton; Writers
Forum; July 2007; ISBN 978 1 84254 107 4]
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NAMING for Adrian Clarke # 2; text Lawrence Upton; live
voice Lawrence Upton; pre-recorded sound samples + live sound treatment and
spatialisation John Drever; 4 channel; 20 mins approx; Wednesday 13th June 2007
at Shunt Lounge, Joiner Street, London Bridge, London SE1
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NAMING for Adrian Clarke # 1; text Lawrence Upton; live
voice Lawrence Upton; pre-recorded sound samples + live sound treatment and
spatialisation John Drever; 4 channel; 20 mins approx; Wednesday 13th June 2007
at Shunt Lounge, Joiner Street, London Bridge, London SE1
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Verbal Iteration 2; 20 minutes; 4 channels; text Lawrence Upton; live
voice Lawrence Upton; live sound treatment and spatialisation John Drever;
projections by Lawrence Upton; Le Divan du Monde, Paris, as part of e-poetry
2007
May 2007
[The texts used in this performance work were taken from the set of sixty
texts published as Verbals by Lawrence Upton; Writers Forum; July 2007; ISBN
978 1 84254 107 4]
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Verbal Iteration 1; 30 minutes; 8 channels; text Lawrence Upton; live
voice Lawrence Upton; additional sound elements John Drever; live sound treatment
and spatialisation John Drever; Live Garden Initiative - Artist Review
Series: Immersivity, Art, Architecture, Sound and Ecology on 20th January
2007 at Goldsmiths College, London
[The texts used in this performance work were taken from the set of sixty
texts published as Verbals by Lawrence Upton; Writers Forum; July 2007; ISBN
978 1 84254 107 4]
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Notts he and free; 14 minutes; 2 channels; text Lawrence Upton; live
voice Lawrence Upton; additional sound elements John Drever; live sound
treatment John Drever; Interlace concert 1st April 2006; recording
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Cobbing's "Kurrirrurriri" - A version; 20 mins approx; 2
channels; text Bob Cobbing, versioned Lawrence Upton; live voice Lawrence
Upton; additional sound elements John Drever; live sound treatment John Drever;
Fluxus Symphony Orchaestra Performance, Goldsmiths College, 17 March 2006
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Close to the Literal; 20 mins.15 secs; 8 channels + graphic
projections; text and images Lawrence Upton; sound recording, live treatment
and spatial design John Drever; pre-recorded and live voice Lawrence Upton;
October 2005, e-poetry 2005 London; performed again Goldsmiths College
Notation Conference November 2005; performed again June 2006 Sonic Arts
Network Expo, Manchester; performed again without live voice FILE Sao Paulo, Brazil in August
2006; projections screen exhibited, FILE, Sao Paulo, Brazil in August
2006; versioned as a 2-channel studio piece (April 2006) - presented SUNY
Buffalo Sep 06;2-channel version extracts broadcast on Resonance FM 4 pm until 4.30 pm
4th May 2007 as part of an interview of Upton by William English; 2-channel
version presented in its entirety, with projections University of Bedford at Luton 9th May
2007 as part of a Writing Seminar led by Upton; full 8-channel version
presented live and in its entirety at Goldsmiths 14 November 2009 as part of Lawrence
Upton at 60; 8-channel version but without graphical element and without live
intervention presented at James Taylor Gallery London, on rotation with works
by other artists 12-6pm, 4th-7th Nov 2010
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crowded; 20 minutes approx; 8 channels + graphic projections;
text and images Lawrence Upton; spatial design and real-time sound treatment
John Drever; live voice Lawrence Upton; January 2005; Camden Peoples Theatre
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error studies and Portraits; 45 minutes approx; 8 channels
+ video; text Alaric Sumner; prerecorded and live voice Lawrence Upton; live
sound treatment / design John Drever; dance (on video) Zoe Wilton; video
direction / production Rory McDermott - September 2004, First Alaric Sumner
Festival [A reworking of a 1995 piece by Sumner]
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Text out of image (Sandra Blow); 1 hr 15 mins approx; 8
channels; text Alaric Sumner; sound treatment / design John Drever;
pre-recorded voice Alaric Sumner; live voice Lawrence Upton - September 2004, First
Alaric Sumner Festival [A reworking of a 1997 piece by Sumner and Drever]
The text underlying this performance has been published as Text out of
Image (Sandra Blow) by Alaric Sumner; A4 portrait; cover image by Sandra
Blow; edited by Lawrence Upton; 28 pages; Writers Forum, 2004