Collaborations with John Drever

Lawrence Upton


Updated September 2008

that the tongue is a whip; 9 minutes 50 seconds; stereo; text, pre-recorded voice, projections and live voice Lawrence Upton; treatment of recorded voice, additional sound sampling John Drever; a slight reworking and a renaming of NAMING for Ricki Redhead to be presented at The Thursday Club, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London; 9th October 2008. The visual poem(s) used as a starting point, the "raw text" referred to below, retains its original title

NAMING for Ricki Redhead; 9 minutes 50 seconds; stereo; text, pre-recorded voice, projections and live voice Lawrence Upton; treatment of recorded voice, additional sound sampling John Drever; The Shunt Lounge, London Bridge; 5th June 2008. The raw text has been web-published by Poetics Canada 8

Verbal Iteration 3; 19 minutes 30 seconds; 4 channels; text Lawrence Upton; live voice Lawrence Upton; live sound treatment and spatialisation John Drever; projections by Lawrence Upton; The Hub, Plymouth as part of Sonic Arts Network Expo 2007 June 2007. This piece is a reworking of Verbal Iteration 2

NAMING for Adrian Clarke # 2; text Lawrence Upton; live voice Lawrence Upton; pre-recorded sound samples + live sound treatment and spatialisation John Drever; 4 channel; 20 mins approx; Wednesday 13th June 2007 at Shunt Lounge, Joiner Street, London Bridge, London SE1

NAMING for Adrian Clarke # 1; text Lawrence Upton; live voice Lawrence Upton; pre-recorded sound samples + live sound treatment and spatialisation John Drever; 4 channel; 20 mins approx; Wednesday 13th June 2007 at Shunt Lounge, Joiner Street, London Bridge, London SE1

Verbal Iteration 2; 20 minutes; 4 channels; text Lawrence Upton; live voice Lawrence Upton; live sound treatment and spatialisation John Drever; projections by Lawrence Upton; Le Divan du Monde, Paris, as part of e-poetry 2007 May 2007

Verbal Iteration 1; 30 minutes; 8 channels; text Lawrence Upton; live voice Lawrence Upton; additional sound elements John Drever; live sound treatment and spatialisation John Drever; Live Garden Initiative - Artist Review Series: Immersivity, Art, Architecture, Sound and Ecology on 20th January 2007 at Goldsmiths College, London

Notts he and free; 14 minutes; 2 channels; text Lawrence Upton; live voice Lawrence Upton; additional sound elements John Drever; live sound treatment John Drever; Interlace concert 1st April 2006

Cobbing's "Kurrirrurriri" - A version; 20 mins approx; 2 channels; text Bob Cobbing, versioned Lawrence Upton; live voice Lawrence Upton; additional sound elements John Drever; live sound treatment John Drever; Fluxus Symphony Orchaestra Performance, Goldsmiths College, 17 March 2006

Close to the Literal; 20 mins.15 secs; 8 channels + graphic projections; text and images Lawrence Upton; sound recording, live treatment and spatial design John Drever; pre-recorded and live voice Lawrence Upton; October 2005, e-poetry 2005 London; performed again Goldsmiths College Notation Conference November 2005; performed again June 2006 Sonic Arts Network Expo, Manchester; performed again without live voice FILE Sao Paulo, Brazil in August 2006; projections screen exhibited, FILE, Sao Paulo, Brazil in August 2006; versioned as a 2- channel studio piece (April 2006) - presented SUNY Buffalo Sep 06; extracts broadcast on Resonance FM 4 pm until 4.30 pm 4th May 2007 as part of an interview of Upton by William English; presented in its entirety, with projections University of Bedford at Luton 9th May 2007 as part of a Writing Seminar led by Upton.

crowded; 20 minutes approx; 8 channels + graphic projections; text and images Lawrence Upton; spatial design and real-time sound treatment John Drever; live voice Lawrence Upton; January 2005; Camden Peoples Theatre

error studies and Portraits; 45 minutes approx; 8 channels + video; text Alaric Sumner; prerecorded and live voice Lawrence Upton; live sound treatment / design John Drever; dance (on video) Zoe Wilton; video direction / production Rory McDermott - September 2004, First Alaric Sumner Festival [A reworking of a 1995 piece by Sumner]

Text out of image (Sandra Blow); 1 hr 15 mins approx; 8 channels; text Alaric Sumner; sound treatment / design John Drever; pre-recorded voice Alaric Sumner; live voice Lawrence Upton - September 2004, First Alaric Sumner Festival [A reworking of a 1997 piece by Sumner and Drever]