
bad timing exists to make live events happen across sound, music, art and technology. Since late 2001 it has brought innovative artists from across the world and around the UK to Cambridge.
Our residency at Quip & Curiosity has now finished. Thanks to everyone who performed, attended, visited, and took part in the live improvisation or workshop and people who helped behind the scenes with development and installation. Thanks in particular to Quip & Curiosity / Taren McCallan-Moore for inviting bad timing to make use of this unique new artspace in central Cambridge, to Pete UM and Philip Cornett for performing, Under The Concrete Gazebo and the contact improvisers for the improvisation session, to everyone involved over the years in creating and hosting Self Assembly and to Philip Cornett and Will Crosby for collaborations and conversations during the residency.
Bad Timing's public residency 'off plan' at Quip & Curiosity comes to a close this week and has been extended for an extra day for a closing live evening event. Thanks to everyone who has visited or taken part in the Concrete Gazebo or Sonic Drawing workshop events.
Final events and opening:
bad timing presents: 'off plan' at Quip & Curiosity 30/9–11/10/2023
After a summer in residence at Cambridge artspace Quip & Curiosity focusing on field recording and improvisation working with sound artists, bad timing will be opening the space for installations, soundworks, visuals and performances over the next 2 weeks.
The show includes a fourth manifestation of bad timing's shed venue and artspace Self Assembly, previously appearing within Aid & Abet warehouse (2011), a terraced house (2012), and Lotusland at Changing Spaces, Norfolk St (2015).
Opens from 1pm, Sat 30th Sept with a new site-specific soundwork by Philip Cornett from 3pm, created using sounds recorded on site at Quip & Curiosity and beyond.
Opening hours: 1–6pm Sat and Sun 30/9, 1/10, 7/10, 8/10
Check here and @badtimingnights on social media for further details of specific performances and viewings.
Soundlab 103: Experiments in Space and Sound On 9th September, Under The Concrete Gazebo invited Bad Timing to co-curate a day of sound, music and improv sessions featuring artists based in the region at the former Waterbeach Barracks site as part of a new project Soundlab103 within the annual Summer at the Beach open studios at Waterbeach Barracks.
Bad Timing contributed to programming, production and the creation and performance of site-specific works. With Philip Cornett and Will Crosby, we created a trio improvisation using found objects and resonating the large shutters and chains of the Terrace 103 building itself. We also invited Wilbury Tapeworm and Russell Walker from Hertfordshire and featured the site-specific work 'Blast Lock' by Cambridgeshire artist Laica working with Graham Dunning, composed from field recordings made at the decontamination chamber at RAF Alconbury, Cambridgeshire.
Recommended events in Cambridge:
This weekend sees the return of Outlands Network's fourth annual The Joyous Thing. A weekend of events, discussions, meetups and new commissions in new UK experimental music. This year the event moves to Birmingham, with performances and new sound commissions also on Resonance Extra (online / DAB in Cambridge and selected other places across the UK).
Cambridge-based sound artist and Bad Timing collaborator Philip Cornett has a new Outlands Members' commissioned sound piece premiering on Sunday 5th between 6–8pm on Resonance Extra as part of this year's event.
Recommended events in Cambridge:
Also, recommended -- regular Cambridge events including open stages:
As we come to the end of 2022 we recommend the following upcoming events in Cambridge into next year:
After an extended break we're currently planning in-person events for 2022. More news soon.
In the meantime, we recommend the following upcoming events in Cambridge:
Also recommended is Club Urania, a new monthly night of queer performance co-hosted by Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction and Diarmud Hester (Queer Trash, A Great Recorded History audio trail).
Bad Timing presents:
In conversation: Public time not public space
How have the experimental music and art scenes been creating live events since lockdown, utilising site-specific performance, experimental formats and alternative platforms to create shared experiences while audiences can't gather in the same space.
Bad Timing talks to three UK artists, performers and event producers who have been creating live music and sound events since March 2020.
Featuring artist and performer Elvin Brandhi (Yeah You/Villaelvin), composer, DJ, event producer and improviser Mariam Rezaei (TOPH, TUSK Fringe) and artist, sound designer and improviser Oliver Payne (YARMONICS festival, Eastern Ear) about creating and performing at live experimental music events in 2020.
Sun 28 Feb, 16:35–17:20 at outlands.network/streaming
Part of:
Outlands: The Joyous Thing #2, 27–28 Feb 2021
free / donation to outlands appreciated
In January 2020, Outlands held The Joyous Thing — a weekend festival of live experimental music including performances and discussions. As a member of Outlands, Bad Timing is preparing for the second annual weekend (this year online) of new commissions, talks, performances and more. This year we aim to bring together UK experimental music artists and organisers and audiences and to think about ways we can stay connected and make live music and sound happen in 2021 and beyond. More details very soon.
Outlands: The Joyous Thing #2, 27–28 Feb 2021
Outlands is moving into a new phase of existence and is now looking to bring new members into an expanded network for discussions and sharing how we can now make experimental music and performances happen.
The Joyous Thing was organised by Outlands, bringing together other experimental producers, event organisers, musicians and artists to discuss the live experimental music scene (and compete in Jennifer Lucy Allan's pub quiz).
Bad Timing has joined Outlands and will be working alongside Cambridge Junction and experimental music organisations and producers around the UK to share knowledge and plan future events.
This week we're running a couple of sonic drawing workshops as part of bad timing's hidden channels project, in collaboration with Wysing-based artist Philip Cornett. The workshops happen at the new Motion Sickness Project space in Petty Cury in Cambridge city centre.
Sonic drawing uses sensitive microphones to amplify and magnify the small sounds of drawing and writing with pens and pencils (and many other objects) as they move across the surface of the paper.
Participants will use pens, pencils and various other found and made objects to create a group sound piece played live by drawing. No experience or skill with sound or drawing necessary.
Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th September Motion Sickness Project Space 15 Petty Cury Cambridge CB2 3NE
We're pleased to announce the sixth Outlands tour featuring Qujaku in a new collaboration with visual artists IMPATV. This new project ENSÕ SONE combines Japanese psych, audiovisual innovation and projection-mapped costumes. Tour support comes from Group A also featuring new audiovisual work.
This event is part of Cambridge Junction's Pay What You Feel arts season. Selected events are £2.50 entry or you can make a larger donation if you decide.
This month the fifth Outlands tour brings another new and specially commissioned collaboration to Cambridge. New York-based Eartheater (PAN recordings) is an electronic producer, experimental vocalist and choreographer. She has been working with UK experimental filmmakers Semiconductor to create a new audiovisual performance exploring the art and science of patterns formed at the edge of material breakdown.
Live support comes from Cambridge-based twenty-three hanging trees.
twenty-three hanging trees: soundcloud
Tuesday 18th June 2019
Tickets: £9 adv, more on the door, from Cambridge Junction Box Office
Show: FRACTURE PATTERNS: 7:00pm doors/bar, 8–10:30pm, J1, Cambridge Junction
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TAKE PART: Before the show come along to a short free workshop session 6-6:45pm at Cambridge Junction where Alex Drewchin will work with participants to explore what kind of sounds emerge at the very highest and lowest pitches they can reach. No singing experience necessary just be open to experimentation. The group will be able to take part in the evening show adding the vocal sounds they discover in the workshop to the sound of the performance.
All workshop participants also gain free entry to the evening show.
Free entry but places are limited so reservation is essential:Workshop: BEYOND THE FRAY: 6:00–6:45pm, Cambridge Junction, meet in J2 foyer
In 2019 Outlands will bring another three diverse and innovative experimental music tours to Cambridge Junction. Next month tour #4 focuses on sounds created using materials with a live show featuring sculptor and ceramic artist Keith Harrison in collaboration with electronic musician and producer Beatrice Dillon. Support comes from DJs Copper Sounds, playing their own discs made from copper, wax and other materials and finding new ways to play their record collections. Copper Sounds will also lead a workshop before the show where you can create your own 7" wax lathe-cut disc.
Tickets are just £9 in advance from Cambridge Junction Box Office, including booking fee, more on the door.
Times: 7:30pm: doors/bar; 8:00pm: music
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Copper Sounds will introduce cutting lathes, talk about the history of sound recording and participants will create their own wax 7" dubplate and turntable-created sleeve artwork.
Times: 4:30–6:00pm
Free entry but places are limited so reservation is essential:
sign up here
Artists from acclaimed German electronic label raster (successor to raster-noton) label: Kyoka (Japan) + Grischa Lichtenberger (Germany) plus tour support Ytac will play hypnotic live minimal electronics within a J2 space transformed into a unique environment using sensors and microphones to react to the artists and audience.
Outlands tour #3 is presented by Outlands Network for experimental music tours in the UK together with network member FUSE (Bradford).
Outlands events in Cambridge are promoted by Cambridge Junction and co-hosted by bad timing.
Tickets are just £9 in advance from Cambridge Junction Box Office, including booking fee, more on the door.
Still a few places left on this creative coding workshop with creative technologists wetgenes who have been working with Outlands and FUSE to create next week's DRIFT show. Come and learn about how shaders technology can use your device and its camera and microphone to creative reactive moving visuals.
5–7:15pm J2, Cambridge Junction. Free entry but reservation essential as places are limited.
Outlands is a new UK network for experimental music tours. Bad Timing is working with Cambridge Junction to promote the Cambridge events.
Read more about Outlands Network:
www.outlands.network
Next week the second Outlands network tour comes to Cambridge on Thursday 28th June with Yunohara Variations at J2, Cambridge Junction. Produced by Supersonic Festival, this is a collaboration between YoshimiO (Boredoms/OOIOO), Susie Ibarra and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens).
Support comes from Tribes of Europe, the project of Cambridgeshire-based cellist and improviser Martin Elsey, who has collaborated with C Joynes among others and has been featured on Radio 3's Late Junction.
Tickets are just £9 in advance from Cambridge Junction Box Office, including booking fee, more on the door.
Outlands is a new UK network for experimental music tours. Bad Timing is working with Cambridge Junction to promote the Cambridge events.
Read more about Outlands Network:
www.outlands.network
bad timing exists to create unique live music, sound and art events in Cambridge, making events happen in venues of all kinds and in other unusual spaces — wherever they can be made to happen. bad timing has brought touring artists to the city from across the world working with a core of experimental and innovative artists based in Cambridge and beyond, making connections and seeking out performance opportunities.
bad timing is interested in live events beyond the standard gig format and has worked with many of the city's visual arts organisations including Kettle's Yard, Aid & Abet, Wysing Arts Centre and Motion Sickness as well as several Cambridge city museums to develop its own cross-arts projects and provide opportunities to other artists and musicians to work in new ways.
Major projects include Monomania festival of solo artists and individual and obsessive creativity and Hidden Channels live sound events and workshop series, commissioning site-specific sound installations and performances around the city.
In 2019 Bad Timing joined the Outlands Network of UK experimental music organisations after working with network member Cambridge Junction on Outlands touring live events and workshops in 2018–19, contributing to programming, production, workshop facilitation and publicity.
Founded in 2001, Bad Timing has created events and activities for more than 20 years.
2023 Off Plan, Quip & Curiosity R&D residency and public live, participatory and workshop events and installations, including Self Assembly shed venue.
2023 Concrete Gazebo curates the day, Soundlab103, Waterbeach Bad Timing co-programmed, co-produced and helped develop site-specific performances for the former-airbase and upcoming newtown development site. Part of new Soundlab103 events as part of annual Summer at the Beach festival in Waterbeach near Cambridge.
2021 In conversation: Public time not public space Online discussion of how experimental music practices have shaped live events and experiences since Covid-19 for artists, organisers and audiences. Featuring Elvin Brandhi (Yeah You), Mariam Rezaei (TOPH/TUSK Fringe) and Oliver Payne (YARMONICS/Eastern Ear). Created by Bad Timing with input from other Outlands members. Commissioned by Outlands as part of Outlands' The Joyous Thing 2 online festival 27–28 Feb 2021.
2016 The Other Side: An Audiophonic Séance Created with The Alchemical Landscape research group at the University of Cambridge.
2015 Tyburnia at Castle Hill with Dead Rat Orchestra and The Museum of Cambridge Day of site-specific events around the lost site of Cambridge's gallows at Castle Hill. Museum of Cambridge, Castle End Mission and Castle Hill area walk.
Live soundtrack event by Dead Rat Orchestra with film by James Holcombe, panel discussion. History walk, discussion and temporary exhibition created by Tamsin Wimhurst at the Museum of Cambridge.
2014 Hidden Channels: sound, art and technology, 13–21 Sept Site-specific exhibition and live event at Cambridge Museum of Technology. New commission from Jez Riley French 'five resonances (fluid)' premiered. Stephen Cornford 'Archipelago' UK debut showing. Holly Rumble new site-specific performance 'Fortune', John Chantler, Graham Dunning, Chloe Leaper, Peter Sutton, local radio.
2014 monomania: a one-day international festival of solitary and obsessive creative experience across live art, sound, music, visual art and technology. Aid & Abet artspace, Cambridge Junction and Cambridge Station area.
www.monomaniafestival.co.uk2011–2013 Space-Time Festival, Wysing Arts Centre: Development and programming and promotional support for the first phase of Wysing Arts Centre's in-house annual music festival, working in collaboration with curators Donna Lynas and Gareth Bell-Jones. Bad Timing was a programming partner in 2011 alongside Strange Attractor.
Russell Walker, Eugene Aram, Bridget Hayden, Aino Tytti, Tim Yates, Howlround, English Heretic, Consumer Electronics, Circuit Breaker, Dead Rat Orchestra, Simon Scott, C Joynes, Laura Cannell, Richard Dawson, John Chantler, Graham Dunning, Chris Corsano, Mick Flower, Heatsick, Lee Patterson, Sean Dower, Sarah Angliss, Land Observations, Holly Rumble, John Boursnell, Container, Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO, Robert Curgenven, |||人 (Paul Abbott/Daichi Yoshikawa/Seymour Wright), Benedict Drew, NHK yx KOYHEN, Sylvester Anfang II, Ensemble Economique, High Wolf, R Stevie Moore, B J Nilsen, Pimmon, Solina Hi-fi, Sculpture, Hacker Farm, Drum Eyes, Astral Social Club, Harry Merry, Our Love Will Destroy The World, Alexander Tucker, Dieter Moebius, Chris Forsyth, Tetuzi Akiyama, James Ferraro, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Volcano The Bear, Atsuhiro Ito, Hair Police, Family Battlesnake, Part Wild Horse's Mane on Both Sides, Prurient/Cold Cave, Damo Suzuki, Felix Kubin, Wolf Eyes, Disinformation, Pita vs Z'EV, Bugbrand, Keith Fullerton Whitman, DJ Scotch Egg, Kevin Blechdom, Venetian Snares, Panda Bear, Leafcutter John, Ergo Phizmiz, Goodiepal, Janek Schaefer, V/Vm and many more ...
bad timing exists to make live events happen across sound, music, art and technology. Since late 2001 it has brought innovative artists from across the world and around the UK to Cambridge.
Special events and discussions about sound, active listening, sound-making and field recording in the Cambridge area.
Monomania is a project which celebrates obsessive, solitary and individual creative experiences.
Monomania Festival 2014 happened at Aid & Abet warehouse artspace, Cambridge Junction and the Cambridge Station cb1 redevelopment area. Artists working solo created commissioned works, performances and workshops over the course of a day.
Self Assembly is Bad Timing's purpose-built arts centre for Cambridge. The 7-capacity space includes gallery, screening and live performance areas. Originally constructed as part of Art As A Full Time Hobby at Aid & Abet warehouse in 2011, it has since appeared in a Cambridge terrace living room, as part of Lotusland at Changing Spaces Project Space (2015) and at Quip & Curiosity artspace as part of bad timing's Off Plan residency in 2023.
Apart from the residential living room, it has survived the demolition or closure of all but one of these spaces as well as the place it was constructed, Reworks warehouse workshop and studios.
Monomania is a project which celebrates obsessive, solitary and individual creative experiences.
Monomania Festival 2014 happened at Aid & Abet warehouse artspace, Cambridge Junction and the surrounding area. Artists working solo created commissioned works, performances and workshops over the course of a day.
Details: www.monomaniafestival.co.uk
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