{"id":1130,"date":"2022-06-26T21:07:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T21:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2022-07-18T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:18:07","slug":"discarded-douglas-benford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/26\/discarded-douglas-benford\/","title":{"rendered":"Discarded : Douglas Benford [PAST]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Live Performance :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16th July 2022 Saturday 6-7pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a35 per ticket | 10 places only. Please email divfuse@gmail.com for ticketing and bank transfer details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Douglas Benford plays various idiosyncratic instruments, objects and toys accompanying a soundscape created from household debris, objects and including autotuned vocal snippets. Spacious audio collisions of the human and the found, and the discarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E67B78DD-38F2-4E2B-8F91-ADD0835A3D85.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1131\" width=\"255\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E67B78DD-38F2-4E2B-8F91-ADD0835A3D85.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/E67B78DD-38F2-4E2B-8F91-ADD0835A3D85-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Douglas Benford, composer and sound artist, has been involved in various audio genres and monikers since the late 1980s, performing at institutions in the UK (Bristol\u2019s Arnolfini, London\u2019s Science Museum, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow\u2019s CCA, The Vortex), festivals worldwide (Mutek, Synch, Transmediale) and has had installation work in numerous UK galleries (London, Swansea, Stroud and Essex). His pieces and performances have been aired on the radio internationally, and regularly on BBC Radio 3\u2019s Freeness programme and on Resonance FM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>After numerous electronica releases and activity in the 90s and 2000s, he now performs using acoustic sources (eg harmonium, toys, objects) with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Confront Recordings \/ Mark Wastell\u2019s The Seen collective, as well as being a regular contributor to the Lonely Impulse Collective. Often a performer at Hundred Years Gallery, Cafe Oto and Iklectik, his collaborators include Alan Wilkinson, Dominic Lash, Blanca Regina, poet Tamar Yoseloff, Angharad Davies, sculptor Rob Olins, Matt Atkins, Lina Lapelyte, Marjolaine Charbin, Sylvia Hallett, Steve Beresford, Hannah Marshall, Adam Bohman, Clive Bell, John Edwards, Jennifer Allum, Emily Shapiro and Sue Lynch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>http:\/\/dbenford.bandcamp.com\/music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo from Douglas Benford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Performance : 16th July 2022 Saturday 6-7pm \u00a35 per ticket | 10 places only. Please email divfuse@gmail.com for ticketing and bank transfer details. Douglas Benford plays various idiosyncratic instruments, objects and toys accompanying a soundscape created from household debris, objects and including autotuned vocal snippets. Spacious audio collisions of the human and the found,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/26\/discarded-douglas-benford\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Discarded : Douglas Benford [PAST]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-past-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divfuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}