Simon Jones

Joined: February 2011. Member No. 51

Web: http://simonjonescrossdisciplinaryartist.blogspot.com/

Email: simon_jones7@live.com 

Simon Jones is a composer, performer and crossdisciplinary artist based in Liverpool. As well as being a member of Red Wire, he is one of the leading members of Frakture, a Liverpool-based organisation promoting free improvised music around the North West of England, and a founding member of Liverpool- and Edinburgh-based noise group, Noise Club. Simon performs solo with his acousmatic noise project, Hot Hail, and plays in a number of groups, including the a.P.A.t.T. Orchestra, Black Forest Orchestra, Shirakashi, Id of Morbius, Fraktal, i:Object, and several other groups, as well as delivering workshops both in free improvisation and on 20th Century composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, and performing work by these and other 20th & 21st Century composers live in public.

 

 

Over more than a decade, Simon has played with Damo Suzuki (Can), Vasily Petrenko (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), Eddie Prevost (AMM), Ensemble 10/10, Carlos Zingaro (Fluxus), Simon Fell (Badland), Llorenç Barber (Fluxus), and many others.

Simon's compositional work deals with sound-colour as melody, microtonality, and notions of continuity. As an installation artist, his work explores interactivity, creating immersive and multisensory pieces, working not only with sound and vision, but also smell and touch. One of Simon's primary concerns in both his music and artwork is how to represent objectively the way we perceive the world subjectively.

Hot Hail is a musical extension of Simon's work more generally, keeping the same concerns as in his compositional work, but fused with the techniques of free improvisation. In Hot Hail, Simon performs on an array of found objects, effects and laptop, creating dynamic soundscapes that range from the darkly disturbing to the strangely sublime. Hot Hail is an exploration of the inner life of the objects around us.

For enquiries, commissions or to book a performance, contact: simon_jones7@live.com

Go to my blog for further information. 

A FEW SELECTED ARTWORKS 

The Garden of Unearthly Delights, a audio-visual-olfactory installation in the basement at Wolstenholme Creative Space. 

Jericho's Revenge, commissioned by Up the Wall, Chester. An interactive 49-speaker installation in which was invited to create their own composition with a choir of brass sounds.

 

One, by 'the white snow leaves imprints in the dawn'. Adam Webster: cello; Simon Jones: sonic manipulation and visuals. This piece was commissioned by the PRS for Music Foundation for the opening of the Nam June Paik exhibition at FACT and Tate Liverpool. 

 

Noise Club resonating a van with feedback in a car park in Dundee for a commission from Neon.

 

Our Souls Collide, an interactive audio-visual-kinaesthetic installation in the virtual world of Second Life. This piece won first prize in the University of Western Australia's IMAGINE prize for 3D design.

A Noise Club barbeque performance at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, where items of cooking food were transformed into musical instruments on a real live BBQ. The piece was a commission from If Only...!