Changing Gear supports emerging women and gender-diverse music creators to make new electronic works, develop new technical skills and push creative boundaries.
Changing Gear is YSWN’s artist development programme offering commissions to emerging music creators based in Yorkshire and the Humber, including equipment and support to compose and perform exciting new works. Now in its third year, the programme is supported by funding from PRS Foundation.
Eleanor Hooper – Go Gather Bones
Go Gather Bones is an evolving musical exploration of a deep connection with places in the Peak District as sonic collaborators, using field recordings, deep listening, vocal improvisation and bio-sonification of plants in these locations. Compositions have grown through being open to how the land sings through me, finding intonations, phrasings and melodies unusual to me and, at times, deeply keening. Walking out on my own, mainly at dusk, singing into and from the land, improvising with the free time created as the plants’ electrical signals trigger fragments of field recordings and sampled acoustic instruments, I have been struck by the depth of jamming and communication available here. When a roaring helicopter passes overhead, her bilberry leaves stop singing, as I do. The music comes out of Wet Withens Stone Circle and Barrow, the Seven Stones of Hordron, and the ancient drovers’ path and woods in and around Lawrence Field.
Gilank – Cavus
What does a cave sound like when you’re completely alone? Cavus was born out of Gilank’s visit to Poole’s Cavern near Buxton, where they were given an hour inside the cave to record its sounds, and their own. Awed and slightly unnerved by the vastness of the space, they began exploring how those emotions might become music. Acoustic and electronic instruments merge with field recordings from the visit, allowing the cave itself to become part of the composition. Cavus seeks to capture the mystery, darkness and timeless majesty of a place shaped over thousands of years.
Layla Legard – This is a Portal
This is a Portal developed from field recordings and improvisations at Hob Thirst’s House: a cave in Deepdale near Buxton. Here, a local tailor and amateur archaeologist discovered a Romano-British burial in the 1890s, and an assemblage of coins, jewellery and precious objects suggesting offerings at a religious site. The piece uses treated field recordings of ancient instruments such as jaw harp and bull roarer, which have often been found in cave habitations across Europe. These are combined with impulse responses, tape loops, gong and spoken word to explore a collaboration with a presence that continues to linger in the cave.
About this event:
Date - From 7pm on Sunday, 22 November.
Timing - Doors open for drinks at 7pm, performance starts at 7.30pm.
Price - £10 (or £7 with ‘GIG’ coupon code).
Location - Downstairs at Open House.
Wheelchair accessibility - This event is accessible to wheelchair users. There is an accessible toilet on the ground floor. Email music@openhousehathersage.com to reserve a priority seat/wheelchair space.
Booking - Limited to 60 spots, to book your spot please click below.
Tickets:
£10 standard ticket.
Please pay this price if you can afford it. Your ticket price supports fair pay for musicians and supports the venue to continue offering high quality events.
£7 concession ticket (use ‘GIG’ coupon code).
We want to make live music accessible to all. Please pay this price if you are:
on a low wage/benefits and can’t afford the higher ticket price.
over 60 and can’t afford the higher tier.
under 25.
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Yorkshire Sound Women Network (YSWN) is a Yorkshire-based CIC championing gender equity in audio. YSWN inspires and enable women (cis and trans) and gender-diverse people to explore sound and music technology, running projects devoted to artistic development, education and network-building. YSWN also works with the audio industry to promote equality, tackle discrimination and increase opportunities.
Founded in 2015, YSWN’ s mission is to support a flourishing industry which welcomes, encourages and progresses the inclusion of women and gender-diverse people at all levels from studio floor to board room, and reflects the diversity of its participating communities.
YSWN is a PRS Foundation.
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For subsidised tickets, please use the coupon code ‘GIG’ when booking on the next pages.
We want to support the grassroots music scene, book high quality artists, offer fair pay to musicians and run a sustainable venue. Across the UK, many small music venues are shutting and we want to buck this trend.
Standard tickets are priced to fairly pay the musicians and to support the venue. We also recognise that these tickets are potentially unaffordable for some people and we also offer subsidised tickets because we want live music to be accessible to as many people as possible.
For our higher priced events, these subsidised tickets may still be out of reach for some people so we have developed a programme of events at different price points, including ‘grassroots double bill’ events and free open mic events. We hope to see you at a music event soon. -
This event will be held downstairs and is accessible to wheelchair users with an accessible WC on our ground floor.
Please contact us if you have any concerns.