'Notes for Fatty Cakes' with Between Soundings
8th October 2011
<!--StartFragment--> To mark the release of Andrew Spragg's Notes for Fatty Cakes (published by Anything Anymore Anywhere) Between Soundings has prepared a performance of the text with sound from Julie Groves and Matt Cockshutt. Utilising ambient recordings and live performance, the music has been composed as a specific soundscape response for the occasion.
Praise for the book:
'Notes for Fatty Cakes flickers through the landscape of demotic, rounding up the tribes of lenses language uses from plank to Planck: a mini-epic journey in the running heads below which letters, reportage and refrain record as I eyes an other. "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" Genre-kebabs on a skewer of wit.'
Tom Raworth
'Ranging from ocean to dry-land pub, prairie to outer space, this book's good-humoured restlessness provokes us to think about relations between self and other. Andrew Spragg is a poet who can love; this book is in love with language without losing a grip on the world.'
Vahni Capildeo
Between Soundings presents Notes for Fatty Cakes
8th October 2011 @ 8pm, £3
Poetry Café, 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX
Julie Groves http://www.juliegroves.com/ Matt Cockshutt http://yellotone.com/mattdefence.htm Andy Spragg www.brokenloop.blogspot.com Anything Anymore Anywhere http://www.anythinganymoreanywhere.co.uk/
FCakes ocean print by Natalie Orme - http://nodraws.blogspot.com/
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Click here to find out more about Andy Spragg including information about his recently published book The Fleetingest.
Between Soundings is a creative partnership between Andy Spragg (poet) and Julie Groves (flautist). Through a combined interest in the arts they have worked to produce a series of new and exploratory performance pieces that reflect the links between musical expression and the spoken word. Concepts of folklore and narrative tradition become lines of enquiry, starting points for a spectral mapping out of creative space and practice. Recent works like Echo & the Rush have served to call into focus the tension between experience and response by working an intimate self-mythology into being. At its heart, Between Soundings is a compelling demonstration of the possibilities shared creative practice has to offer.
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