Park Nights

Multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell curates and performs an evening of sound with pioneering noise musician Yasunao.

Multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell curates and performs an evening of sound with pioneering noise musician Yasunao Tone. Responding to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 designed by Sou Fujimoto, the performance explores this structure through its resonances and reverberations.

Russell Haswell is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator from Coventry, England, who lives and works in Suffolk. Hailed internationally as one of the key figures exploring the extremes of electronic music/sound exploration, he has worked on an incredible array of projects, performances and collaborations. He has collaborated with, among others, Aphex Twin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Florian Hecker, Earth, Popol Vuh, Kjetil Manheim, Carsten Höller, Mika Vainio, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Masami Akita, Peter Rehberg, Zbigniew Karkowski, Gescom, Yasunao Tone and Whitehouse. In 2002 his debut compact disc Live Salvage 1997-2000 (Mego) received Prix Ars Electronica's Honorable Mention for Digital Music. As well as his sonic projects, Haswell has continued to work as a writer, visual artist and curator. His extensive curating credits include a series of major projects at P.S.1/MOMA, New York, two All Tomorrow's Parties club events in London, entitled 'Easy to Swallow' (2005-2006), and LISTEN at Aldeburgh Snape Maltings Concert House (2009). As a writer, He has contributed to Frieze articles on Japanese noise, computer music software and Peter Halley.

Japanese-American artist, writer, theorist and composer Yasunao Tone, born in 1935, is, according to writer Alan Cummings, 'part of a whole generation of post-war iconoclasts who followed in the wake of John Cage's discovery of indeterminacy, determined to shake music and art out of their enslavement to the high art, romanticist ideals of the 19th century'. Coming to prominence in the early 1960s, Tone was a co-founder of Group Ongaku and one of Fluxus, the NY Downtown improvisers and European electronica experimentalists. He calls his work Paramedia Art, and his work includes interventions with prepared CDs and MP3 systems. He received the Prix Ars Electronica's Golden Nica award in 2002 and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2004.

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