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PORTALS FOR MORTALS
It was an eventful summer this year for Beat This, just one of the many projects we got involved in was the Portals For Mortals: Fanfares Project with Digital Artist Jamie Gledhill www.jamiegledhill.tv.
Jamie was one of five artists creating work for Park Tales; a family festival weekend of art,
sculpture, and storytelling which took place during August at Thorpe Meadows. Jamie creates interactive art that is public, participatory, and playful. His work uses both lo-fi and hi-tech technologies to explore the enhancement of human experience.
For Park Tales, Jamie staged a temporary take-over of ‘Untitled’ by Miles Davies, imagining each doorway of the sculpture as a portal. The result is a playful and celebratory interactive art work in which up to four people at a time are invited to simply walk through the sculpture.
Jamie enlisted the help of Beat This to record some of the fanfares for the weekend,
the recording sessions took place at Chime with Creative Practitioner, Lee Ashton.
Check out this short film BELOW about the project which includes
some of the sounds and fanfares recorded at Chime.
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For more on "Artists In Residence", METAL and other creative
across the city events please visit
www.idea1.org.uk | www.metalculture.com.
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CAREERS FESTIVAL 2016
In July we were invited by The Skills Service to take part in
the East Of England's largest skills and careers event for young people,
The Careers Festival which took part at the East Of England Showground on July 9th.
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We turned up with armed with a plethora of sonic magic-ness, including synthesizers, Launchpads, drum machines, guitars and a laptop studio to capture the sounds that the young people were creating during the day.
We met some fantastic people and had a lot of interest in ours and the Peterborough Regional College music stand across from us, believe me there was a lot of noise coming from our end of the arena! It was great fun!
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We had a great deal of interest from young people around what we do and about Community Music in general, we may have even signed up a few for FeedBack Jam sessions.
Hopefully we will be back there net year so keep your ears peeled folks.
If you would like to know more about what we do at Beat This or are perhaps interested in
furthering your education or career in music please give us a
tinkle on 01733 873014 or email info@beattthis.org
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IN THE STUDIO WITH THE LIGHTERS
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Recently our roving Volunteer Reporter, Ellie took the time out to visit the Lavalamp Lighters during rehearsal at Chime. The guys rehearse each and every Monday and are currently working on their debut album. Ellie wanted to find out more.....
... How long have you been together?
We've been a band for 3 years now Ellie.
... What's favourite song to play live?
I do like "Rock The Boat" a lot! But i wouldn't say thats my favourite, I think my favourite is "Change Your Life". We also like playing our new song, "Learn To Fly".
... Do you have a band you base your songs off?
I love Santana! I've seen them live and everything! The other 3 members told us they don't base themselves on anybody, Mostly we have our own sound!
... What gigs have you got coming up?
Well we just had a fantastic gig at the Angel in yarwell in July which was for charity. Our next gig will be on Saturday 24th September at the GreenBackyard for the International Picnic, we can't wait.
... What's your favourite flavour of ice cream?
Er.. Bubblegum probably!
Nope I would say... mint choc!
My favourite is chocolate!
I'm going to say mint choc also
mmmm roast beef, no, urm... strawberry cheesecake haha
... Have you got any new songs coming up that you plan on recording or playing?
We have 2 1/2... 'I want to live my life with rock and roll' and 'Can You Hear Our Star?" We have started to record our new songs with Benny at Chime and if we can raise enough money and maybe get some more funding, we can then record our 1st ever album. Last year we released our 1st EP called the Lavalamp Lighters, it was an amazing fantastic experience for all of us!
... Describe your sound for us!
"Passionate, and heartfelt",
"Loud, crazy and progressibve",
"Exciting, passionate, wonderful and enjoyable!"
The music brings us all together and brings the dream closer and closer.
... if you could jam with any musician in the world who would it be?
"Meatloaf or Chad croger",
"For me i would say either Elvis or Queen",
"For me its got to be Santana",
"For me it will be Meat Loaf"
Thanks so mu guys, we cannot wait to hear your new album, we'll all be watching this space.
Thanks Ellie, don't forget you can listen to, download & even buy our music online though our Bandcamp page - www.thelavalamplighters.bandcamp.com/releases
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We were also lucky enough to host a recording and production session with
local artist and poet, Keely Mills aka The Girl From Eye this summer.
We helped Keely to produce a watery soundscape about the Lido and people's experiences of going there.
"This sound scape is part of a poetry residency, called Words in the Water which I produced over the Summer season at Peterborough Lido, whereby I explored the themes of swimming, water and the people that have used or still use the Lido. Keely invited six reseidents of Peterborough and users of the Lido to each write a poem. "
We recorded the poems at Chime Creation Centre and put together an atmospheric soundscape which is now available to listen to online. It's a really good listen which for us brings up a feeling of pleasant nostalgia and warmth.
"I am rather proud of it and I think its just the beginning. A huge thanks to Benny Turner and Beat This for producing the soundscape. To all the poets who took part Ron Graves Ross Sutherland Charley Genever. To Richard Ferris Sue Bailey and Clare Marshall for performing beautifully and to Peterborough Presents for supporting me and Peterborough Lido for the inspiration."
Have a listen and let us know what you think....
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The latest tune to make it in the Beat This Music Charts is brand new slammer from Triston Dhillon, called "I'm Gonna Get You King Sombra", inspired by the My Little Pony Baddy Boss, King Sombra and the ongoing battle between good v evil. Created at Chime Creation Centre.
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The Community Courtyard Festival took place again on May 28th, organised by Circles Network. There was music, food, games, a community mural being painted, stalls and
even the horses turned up for a jolly!
We were there to support the day with some music, the doors of Chime were open and we had some live music from Thomas Dunleavy and Ellie Morris, plus the DJ's from Club 73 and Lavalamp
spun some tunes for the crowds too.
There were many reports from folk saying how good the atmosphere was and that the day was thoroughly enjoyable. Circles Network managed to raise a whopping £600 for charity, well done guys. |
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WE'RE BLOGGING THIS!
Yes we have a brand new BLOG on Tumblr folks. Its a place for all of our students and attendees of music workshops to access, upload their inspirations and creations and share
their story's with their family, friends and peers.
Hayden Taylor has been coming to Chime for 1-2-1 music sessions for nearly 3 years now. The blog is a portal for him to write about his motivations, upload his musical creations and tell his friends about his achievements. Hayden is on his 3rd album now! |
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You can follow Haydens blog here - www.tumblr.com/blog/haydentaylorbeatthis
You can download Hayden's debut album too from here - www.haydentaylor.bandcamp.com/releases
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