Collaborators
Cassetteboy
Tom has also collaborated with Cassetteboy on the place prize 2006 piece, “Whose Futures”.
Cassetteboy is the stage name of Steve Warlin and Michael Bollen (an author and librarian from Brighton). It was only upon the confirmation of their third album’s release date in 2008 that they came forward and made their identities known. Their initial appearance was on the Di and Dodi Do Die 7" Record released on the record label Barry's Bootlegs which is somehow related to the electronic music label Spymania. As well as producing two albums of their own, they have appeared on an album with DJ Rubbish entitled Inside A Whale's Cock Vol 1, which includes humorous cover versions of songs by Alanis Morissette and Jennifer Lopez (a skiffle cover of “Jenny from the block”), along with a parodical take on a song by The Streets.
Their musical approach can be traced from the origins of sampling, musique concrète and the modern approach sometimes called plunderphonics. Most pieces are painstakingly constructed from thousands of audio snippets taken from TV, radio, film and popular music; The Parker Tapes was constructed using the laborious, primitive process of manually splicing segments of audio together via a two-deck tape system, or “ghettoblaster”; later albums are constructed digitally using sound editing software.
The context of their work is often political, but always maintains a humorous aspect.
Jow_FishY – Composer
Jo is a London based composer/producer and Bass player. He studied Double Bass and Electronic music at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama. His credits include work with Brian Eno, Joanna MacGregor and the BBC symphony orchestra, collaborations with Wampa, Royce Rolls and Reprazents Onallee.
He has performed at many of Europes leading concert halls including The Albert Hall, Viennas' Konzerthause and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. He regularly performs across the UK with Live Drum and Bass Band Sion, Samson and A Flexible Harmonica.
Jo is part of production team Hooligan, working on remixes for various artists/labels and creating music for TV and Film.
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Ben Pacey – Lighting Designer
Ben’s recent lighting design for dance includes Handmade/Manmade for Wired Aerial Theatre (Royal Opera House and tours), Quick! - the winner of the Place Prize 2006 - for Nina Rajarani, Forest for Maxine Doyle and Felix Barrett (Place Prize semi-finalist, 2006), and Noor for Anurekha Ghosh (international tour, 2007).
His recent lighting design for theatre includes It Is Like It Ought To Be – A Pastoral for Uninvited Guests (national tour 2006), Frozen at Theatre by the Lake (2006), national tours of Shiver and Bella and the Beautiful Knight for Silver Tongue Theatre (2005-7), and This Lime Tree Bower for The Young Vic (Theatre 503, 2005).
Recent devising work includes I Am Waiting For The Opportunity To Save Someone's Life (Mailbox, 2006) the lighting design for which is featured in the Collaborators: UK Design for Performance exhibition at the V&A.
Ben has also recently collaborated with artist Lali Chetwynd, on her performance events The Fall of Man – A Puppet Extravaganza (Tate Britain, 2006) and Delirious (Serpentine Pavilion, 2006).
For more details, and photographs, of his previous work, please visit www.benpacey.co.uk
Susannah Henry – Set Designer
Susannah trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Recent design work includes; Double Negative, a devised performance by ChoppedLogic (Oval House), costume design for The Christ of Coldharbour Lane (Soho Theatre), Inherit the Wind (Guildhall), Mary Kelly’s Bed, The Crowning of the Year and You Make Me Happy When Skies Are Grey for the Watermill, C-90 by Daniel Kitson, (Riverside Studios, London and the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh and currently on International tour including Sydney Opera House), Shiver for Silver Tongue Theatre Company (Pleasance, Edinburgh) and Sweet Yam Kisses for Kushite Theatre (Lyric Hammersmith, London).
Susannah lectures in Stage Design on the MA Scenography for Dance programme at Laban, and is Associate Design tutor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London.