The lecture series Context welcomes musician and recording director Howie B and sound and visual artist Hiraki Sawa on Friday, October 16 In conjunction with their show, 3 Sticks, in Gamla Bíó.
In the lecture Invert The Pyramid they look at how sound, image and technology intertwine in 3 Sticks They rely on conversation, live demonstrations and visuals from previous performances, and present some of the software and tools used in the creation of the work Students get practical insights into their collaborations, from early ideas and attempts at live performance.
The event is open to everyone.
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The lecture series Context welcomes musician and producer Howie B and sound and visual artist Hiraki Sawa on Friday, October 16th. In connection with their performance 3 Sticks at Gamla Bíó, they will explore the creative process behind the work.
In the lecture Invert the Pyramid, they explore how sound, image and technology have come together in the development of 3 Sticks. Through conversation, live demonstrations, footage from previous performances, and a look at some of the software and tools used to create the work, they offer insight into their collaborative process and how ideas develop through experimentation and into live performance.
The event is open to all.
Howie B
Howie B is a Scottish musician, producer, composer and DJ whose work has helped shape the sound of contemporary electronic, club and experimental music. Emerging from Glasgow and London's underground scenes,
Howie B built his craft in studios before becoming a trusted collaborator for some of the most influential artists of the last four decades. His credits include work with Björk, U2, Tricky, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soul II Soul, Robbie Robertson, Sly and Robbie, Casino Royale and many more. He co-produced U2’s Pop, distributed to Björk's Post and Homogenic, and produced the hit Mission: Impossible Theme remix by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. Alongside major studio work, Howie B has released a substantial body of music under his own name, including albums such as Music for Babies, Turn the Dark Off, Snatch, Folk and Down with the Dawn. As a DJ, he has broken his instinctive, genre-fluid approach to clubs, festivals and landmark mixes including FabricLive.05.
His work spans records, film, television, advertising and live performance, always driven by deep listening, sonic curiosity and a rare ability to connect underground culture with global resources.
Hiraki Sawa
Hiraki Sawa is a Japanese artist based between London and Kanazawa. Working across moving image, installation, drawing and sculpture, he creates poetic environments that subtly shape perceptions of space and time. His work moves between personal and collective memory, finding quiet university in fleet images, imagined landscapes and everyday experience. Marked by fragility, wonder and nostalgia, Sawa's practice explorations how remembrance shifts, dissolves and returns.
In 3 Sticks, his moving images enter into a fluid dialogue with Howie B's live music, creating an immersive audiovisual world that reflects on the self as something simultaneously intimate, infinite and continuously in motion.