Advisory Board

Demosthenes Agrafiotis

Demosthenes Agrafiotis is active in the fields of poetry/painting/photography/ intermedia/installations and their interactions, with books of poetry and essays, and exhibitions of photography paintings, drawings and installations, both in Greece and abroad. He has a special interest for the relations between art and new technologies, for multimedia or intermedia projects and also for performances.

His essays are dedicated to analysis of different forms of art as cultural phenomenon. He has participated in different type of artistic activities: publications, small press initiatives and mail - art / alternative - action art projects.

His anthology-formatted magazine 'Clinamen' (1980-90), co-published by Erato Publications in Athens (1991-94), has been active for over a decade as an amalgam of Greek poetry and art with work from Europe, Asia and America. 7 artists books were published based on 'Clinamen' (1980-1995). After 1996, 'Clinamen' is centered on production of artists books (18). 'Clinamen' in the web (2001-).

www.dagrafiotis.com

Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall is a writer and interdisciplinary poet based in London, who works across media, languages and artforms. Projects alternate between books, audio pieces, performances and language installations.

Recent language-space-sound installation: Middling English (John Hansard Gallery, Sept-Oct 2010). Created in collaboration with musicians, architects, designers. Forthcoming: Meddle English: New and Selected Texts (Nightboat Books, NY, 2011). AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Southampton (2007-2010). In the Spring 2011, Visiting Fellow, School of Visual Arts, University of Copenhagen, to create a collective soundtext for netcast.

Claire Booth: Soprano

From a double first in history from Oxford, Claire switched careers and has gone on to establish an international reputation as one of the most talented and versatile singers of her generation both in opera and concert; in repertoire ranging from the operas of Handel and Mozart to complex scores written in the 20th and 21st centuries. She made her professional debut at the Royal Festival Hall singing Oliver Knussen's 'Océan de Terre' for the composer's 50th birthday celebrations concert. This proved the basis of a productive association with this composer/conductor, including numerous appearances with the London Sinfonietta and BBCSO as well as two BBC Proms performances; his 'Whitman Settings' in 2005 and his 'Requiem; Songs for Sue' in 2007, written for Claire. This latter performance earned her a nomination at the 2008 South Bank Awards. Her busy concert career sees her working regularly with the BBCSO, CBSO, BBCSSO, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Intercontemporarin and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with conductors including Pierre Boulez, Ilan Volkov, Edward Gardiner, Andris Nielsons and Sakari Oramo; where appearances have included Aldeburgh, The Barbican, Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms during the 2009-10 season. Operatic highlights include her ENO debut singing Nora (Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea), Soprano Narrator (Benjamin: Into the Little Hill) for the Royal Opera Linbury Theatre, Mélisande for the Opera Theatre Company, Anne Truelove with the CBSO, Zerlina, 1st Niece and Elle (Poulenc: La Voix Humaine) all for Opera North and Despina for Opera Nantes-Angers.

2011 sees concerts with the BBCSO, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Northern Sinfonia, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Porto. She will also sing Lucia (Britten: Rape of Lucretia) at Aldeburgh, Dorinda in Scottish Opera's production of Handel’s Orlando and Rosina in their Barber of Seville.

Angharad Davies

Angharad Davies is a violinist based in London. She is an active performer in contemporary, improvisation and experimental music both as a soloist and within ensembles. Her classical background lead her to further violin study with Charles-Andre Linale in Dusseldorf, Germany and subsequently Howard Davis in London. Her studies with these two eminent violinists inspire her own teaching practice.

Since making London her base in 2002 she has developed a specific approach to the violin, extending the sound possibilities of the instrument by attaching and applying objects to the strings or by sounding unexpected parts of the instrument's body. She is dedicated to exploring and expanding sound production on the violin.

2008 has seen Angharad perform a live radio broadcast with Apartment House for WDR Koln, and in June she took part in Tony Conrad's 'Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective' which was specially conceived for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London.

Steve Dickison

Steve Dickison has since 1999 directed the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, which incorporates the American Poetry Archives, an extensive collection of over 4000 hours of original recordings of poets and other writers presenting their works, from 1954 to the present. Plans are underway to launch the Poetry Center Digital Archive during 2011, which will make a portion of this collection publicly accessible via the internet. He is Lecturer in Creative Writing at SFSU, and Adjunct Professor in Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts, as well as editor/publisher of the small poetry press Listening Chamber, and, with David Meltzer, co-editor of the music magazine Shuffle Boil. Recent works include a book of poetry, Disposed (The Post-Apollo Press, 2007); Wear You to the Ball, in collaboration with new music composer Bill Dietz (presented May 2009 at the Birkbeck Poetics Centre Symposium on Text and Music in London www.vimeo.com/7128289, and at 7hours gallerie in Berlin); and, as one of several co-editors, Prison/Culture (City Lights Foundation, 2010), an illustrated collection on incarceration and the arts. www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100483990

Allen Fisher

Allen Fisher, poet, performer and installation artist, started professional work as a painter in 1978. Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

He has published over 140 publications of art documentation, conceptual work and poetry. Part of his processual work is now in the Tate Collection and his painted work is owned by museums and private collectors in America, Britain and Iceland.

Recent substantial books include the collected volumes of PLACE (Reality Street, 2005); and the three volumes of a 23-year project: GRAVITY (Salt, 2004); ENTANGLEMENT (The Gig, Ontario, 2004); LEANS (Salt, 2007). Proposals, 35 poems, images and commentaries, is forthcoming 2010. He is researching a commissioned monograph, Assemblage & Empathy, Composition in American Art Literature since 1950 and working on a sequence of his own visual texts.

Susan Gevirtz

Susan Gevirtz lives in San Francisco. Her books of poetry include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, Kelsey Street, 2010; Broadcast, Trafficker, 2009; Thrall, The Post-Apollo Press, 2007; Hourglass Transcripts, Burning Deck, 2001; Spelt, collaboration with Myung Mi Kim, a+bend, 1999; Black Box Cutaway, Kelsey Street, 1999; PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA, Potes and Poets, 1994, reissue Little Red Leaves, 2009; Taken Place, Reality Street, 1993; Linen minus, Avenue B, 1992; and Domino: point of entry, Leave Books, 1992. Her critical study on the work of modernist Dorothy Richardson and early film, Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson, was published by Peter Lang in 1996. Many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals.

Assistant Professor for ten years at Sonoma State University, California, she now teaches in the MA in Visual and Critical Studies program and the MFA program at California College of the Arts, and the MFA in Writing program at Mills College. She has also taught in the MFA in Writing programs at California College of the Arts, The University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University, and at The Hellenic International School of the Arts, Paros, Greece. Ph.D., History of Consciousness program, University of California, Santa Cruz.

She was an associate editor of HOW(ever), a journal of modernist/innovative directions in women’s poetry and scholarship, and on the editorial advisory board for its successor, the online journal HOW2, and for the journal Avec. In the Spring of 2000, she received the New Langton Arts “Bay Area Award in Literature.” She has collaborated on multiple works with interdisciplinary artist Margaret Tedesco, and with Tedesco and sound artist Andrew Klobucar in performance at The Lab, 2001. Her play Motion Picture Home was performed by San Francisco Poets Theatre in the winter of 2002. She edited a feature section on David Bromige for Jacket 22, 2003. A collaboration with sound artist/musician Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud resulted in the audio piece and performance “Aerodrome Orion,” 2006. In late 2010, BROADCAST was included in a series of 35-megaphone open-air performances by Ensemble Zwischentöne, Berlin. Since 2004 she has co-organized the annual translation and conversation meeting of The Paros Symposium with Greek poet Siarita Kouka and other guest Greek and Anglophone poets.

Harry Gilonis

Harry Gilonis is a poet, very occasional composer, occasional improvising musician and intermittently a critic writing on both poetry and music. His books include "Pibroch" (from Morning Star in Edinburgh), which uses constructional devices from classical Scots bagpiping.

A few of his few composed works were performed at the "Bartók in Brixton" Festival some years back (an intriguing event that featured no performances of works by Bartók). He has performed musically with, amongst others, Simon Fell, Susanna Ferrar, Bill Gilonis, Chris Goode, Tim Hodgkinson, Ken Hyder, Dominic Lash and Alan Tomlinson. He is a sort-of-honorary-member of the Scratch Orchestra, having played the work of Cornelius Cardew many times since taking part in the first complete performance of "The Great Learning" in the mid-'80s. He was just pipped to the post with the Buckinghamshire premiere of Cage¹s final piece, "Four6", but can claim credit for premiering Cardew's "Treatise" and "Song of Pleasure" in High Wycombe; he has not set foot in the county since.

Harry has written the sleeve-notes to two CDs by AMM: http://matchlessrecordings.com/node/204
http://www.matchlessrecordings.com/node/344

as well as one by Evan Parker:
http://peterfoolen.blogspot.com/2010/03/evan-parker.html

We are indebted to Harry for his permission to use entries from his redoubtable monthly events 'Dairy' in our news section

Rozalie Hirs

After completing her Chemical Engineering studies (Master of Science, 1990) at Twente University, The Netherlands, Rozalie Hirs studied composition at the Royal Conservatoire, with Diderik Wagenaar (1991-94), Louis Andriessen (1994-98) and Clarence Barlow (1997-98). On a Fulbright grant she traveled to New York to study with Tristan Murail (1999-2002) at Columbia University (Doctor of Musical Arts, 2007). Her dissertation consisted of the essay On Murail's Le lac and the composition Platonic ID, written for the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble.

Recent musical works include: Venus (2010) for percussion sextet and electronic sounds, performed by Slagwerk Den Haag at Holland Festival 2010; Zenit (2010) for string quartet, premiered by the Formalist Quartet at REDCAT, Los Angeles; Roseherte (2008) for large orchestra and electronic sounds, premiered by the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and selected amongst the ten 'Most beautiful new Dutch works' at Toonzetters the following year; the electroacoustic Pulsars (2007), commissioned by the Dutch national radio VPRO, received the mention 'Recommended work' at the IREM in Lisbon in 2007. Her scores are published by Donemus/Music Center the Netherlands.

Her portrait CDs Platonic ID (2007), featuring instrumental works written for the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble, and Pulsars (2010) with electroacoustic compositions involving text, both appeared with Attacca records, Amsterdam. The latter CD was co-produced by Music Center the Netherlands, Amsterdam. Together with Bob Gilmore, Hirs was co-editor of the book Contemporary compositional techniques and OpenMusic (2009), published by Delatour/Ircam, Paris.

Hirs is also a poet. Her four poetry books, Locus (1998), Logos (2002), Speling (2005), and Geluksbrenger (2008), appeared with Querido, Amsterdam.

Personal website of Rozalie Hirs: www.rozalie.com

Record label: www.attacca-records.com

Musique/Sciences collection at Ircam: click here.

Will Montgomery

Will Montgomery teaches contemporary poetry at Royal Holloway, University of London and makes electronic music, sound art and field recordings. He is the author of a monograph on Susan Howe (Palgrave, 2010) and the co-editor of a collection of essays on Frank O'Hara (Liverpool UP, 2010). He has released three CDs: Water Blinks (Selvageflame, 2005); non-collaboration [with Heribert Friedl] (nonvisualobjects, 2008); and Legend [with Brian Marley] (Entr'Acte, 2009).

Recent works include a piece made on the Heygate estate in south London,
released on vinyl by Winds Measure in January 2011; a realisation of a score by
Manfred Werder, out shortly as a mini-CDR Cathnor; and a collaboration
inspired by Luigi Nono made with the poet Carol Watts.

Dr Will Montgomery

www.selvageflame.com

Tim Parkinson

Tim Parkinson lives in London, writes music, puts on concerts including "Music We'd Like to Hear" since 2005 with John Lely and Markus Trunk, plays 'any sound producing means' with James Saunders as "Parkinson Saunders" since 2003, music performed from LA to Tokyo, Bergen to Christchurch, championed by especially Apartment House and Incidental Music and the excellent associated soloists therein, now has 2 CDs out on Edition Wandelweiser, an interview (from 2003) in The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music, a website at www.untitledwebsite.com. Born 7th July 1973, at school 11 years, at university for 3, studied briefly with Kevin Volans in his house in Dublin, went to Ostrava 2001 met Christian Wolff and Alvin Lucier, aside of which never sought any further education except life and self.

Denise Riley

Denise Riley works with lyric. Her writing is concerned with the immediate emotionality of language, and has included investigations in poetics, in the philosophy of language, in the history of ideas, and the nature of self-description and irony. She was Professor of Literature with Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and is A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, Ithaca.

Her main books are War in the Nursery: Theories of Child and Mother [1983]; 'Am I that Name?' Feminism and the Category of Women in History [1988]; The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony [2000]; The Force of Language, with Jean-Jacques Lecercle [2004]; and Impersonal Passion: Language As Affect [2005]. She has also published many collections of poetry, including Penguin Modern Poets 10, with Douglas Oliver and Ian Sinclair [1996], and Denise Riley: Selected Poems [2000] and she edited Poets on Writing; Britain 1970-1991[1992] and co-edited the Language, Discourse, Society Reader [2004].

Formerly Writer in Residence at the Tate Gallery, London, her teaching has included European modernism and art movements as well as philosophy and poetry. She hopes to extend her work on the history of understandings of the inner voice and inner speech, and how they enter into our ideas of what's interior and what's outside.

Fiona Templeton

Fiona Templeton is a poet and performance artist, and director of the New York-based theatre group The Relationship. The company specialises in experiment in relations to the audience, in use of site, and in language. She and her work have won awards and fellowships including New York Foundation for the Arts, the US National Endowment for the Arts, and the Judith Wilson Senior Fellowship at Cambridge. Fiona leads the MA in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University in London.

Her works include The Medead, a 6-part epic, L’Ile, a staging of the dreams of the people of Lille in the places dreamed of, You-The City, an intimate Manhattanwide play for an audience of one, Cells of Release, an installation in collaboration with Amnesty International. The Relationship has also staged the works of Leslie Scalapino, Elfriede Jelinek, Suzan-Lori Parks, Louis Zukofsky and Michael Gottlieb.

Current activities and interests include writing with the voice, the idea of co-creation between audience and art, ventriloquism in spatialisation of the speaking subject, a collaborative project The Eavesdroppers' Choir, and new works with composers Samita Sinha (vocal) and Pamelia Kurstin (theremin).

Books include You-The City (Roof), Cells of Release (Roof), Delirium of Interpretations (Green Integer), London (Sun & Moon), and Elements of Performance Art (with Anthony Howell).