Benedict
Drew is an Artist who works in performance, sound and video. For several
years he has been involved in promoting concerts in London such as Audit
and currently produces concerts for the London Musicians' Collective .
In 1999 he began musical partnership with Ivan Seal in the laptop duo
Nish. Nish have had many releases and performed in the U.K. numerous times.Current
projects include a collaboration with artist Emma Hart and the trio Portable
with Rhodri Davies and Louisa Martin. Benedict has also worked with various
improvisers including Tom Chant [as duo Suscete] Angharad Davies, Alistair
Leslie, Steve Beresford, Seymour Wright, Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell and
Matt Davis. He has travelled widely performing live video. Benedict has
also composed the soundtracks for four films by Emily Richardson, Red
Shift (2001) Nocturne (2002) Aspect (2004) and Petrolia (2005).
A CD of these soundtracks was released in September 2004. Radio work includes
producing and presenting Instant Radio Meeting and the Kchunk Radio series
Resonance FM.
EDUCATION
1996-99 Middlesex University B.A. Fine Art
SELECTED ACTIVITIES:
2008
LUX
Presents Live Cinema
To mark the launch of two new publications, Guy Sherwin: Optical Sound
Films, a book/DVD LUX presents a night of night of new film performances
curated by artist Guy.
Arcola Theatre,London
performance of
UNTITLED 4 with Emma Hart
Untitled Colour:
Museam of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
performance of Untitled 1 & 2 with Emma Hart
Self-Cancellation:
Beaconsfield. London
Instal. The Arches Glasgow
Mark & John Bain
John Butcher
Michael Colligan
Rhodri Davies
Benedict Drew
Robin Hayward
Gustav Metzger
Lee Patterson
Sarah Washington
Ten experimental sound artists are invited to explore
in public the
principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops
and performance in London and Glasgow.
Commissioned by Arika & the London Musicians’ Collective and
developed with
Beaconsfield.
2007
Interlace& Ongaku: Shunt space London:
Benedict Drew (laptop)
Louisa Martin (laptop)
Seymour Wright (alto sax)
Sonic Art Network's Expo in Plymouth :
Portable .
Tate
Modern Turbine Hall.
Performance of "sine/line" with Sachiko M
Evolution
festival, Leeds
Performance of " untitled 1 & untitled 2 with Emma Hart.
Sotto Voce Festival London.
Performance with Portable
International film festival
Rotterdam
Performance of " untitled 1 & untitled 2 with Emma Hart.
2006
London Musicians
Collective Festival Anual of
Experimental Music. ICA ,London.
Curated and produced 3 day music festival
2:13 Festival
Athens, Greece
performance with Emma Hart
AVP festival
Melbourne Derbyshire . UK
3 perfromances with Keith Rowe, Lee Paterson, Matt Davis and Graham Haliwell
Kill Your Timid Notion
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Two Performances With Emma Hart
Rational Rec.
London
performance with Genital Panic
2005
LMC Festival
of Experimental Music London
curated and produced five day music festival
Sound Track London
Audio Visual performance with Emma Hart
Frieze Art Fair London
Audio Artist for Resonance fm
Cyrk London
audio performance with Matt Davis
Petrolia
Sound track for film by Emily Richardson
Kchunk
radio series on resonance fm
12 Bar London
Audio Performance with Toshimaru Nakumura
Share New York City
Audio Performance
Jacksons Lane London
audio performance as part Mark Wastel's
Double Concerto for Contra Bass , Harp and
Laptop Ensemble
2004
Aspect
Sound track for the film by Emily Richardson
The Spitz London
Audio performance with Alastair Leslie & Ivan Seal
Conway Hall London
Audio performance as Nish
Offsite Tokyo Japan
Solo Audio performance
291 Gallery London
Audio performance with Angharad Davies and Matt Davis
Conway Hall London
Audio-visual performance with Angharad Davies
2003
SS Robin London, Audio-visual improvisation trio
with Steve Beresford and Rob Flint
British Council
Bangkok, Thailand . Video workshop and concert .
MWMC Tour
Latvia,Lituiania, Estonia
Video Artist With Cinematic Ochestra.
tour was supported by the British Council.
London Musicians Collective Festival for
Experimental Music London
A three day group improvisation directed by
Keith Rowe and Otomo Yoshihide
Conway Hall London
Audio-visual computer duet
with Tom Chant as Succette
Lux Open London
Incidence Room
A four screen and eight speaker installation with
filmmaker Greg Pope
The Foundry London
Audio performance with Ivan Seal as Nish
Resonance FM
Presented and produced
Instant Music Radio Meeting
a fortnightly live music programme
2002
Turntable Hell U.K.
Tour video performance
Nocturne
Soundtrack to the film by Emily Richardson
Audit series London
Curated a monthly series of events exploring new
directions in improvised and experimental music.
Pandaemonium Biennial of Moving Image London
Audio performance as Nish
2001
State of the NationFestival
The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
Audio performance with Ivan Seal as Nish
Red Shift
Soundtrack to the film by Emily Richardson
British Council
Mexico City, Mexico. Video workshop and concert .
2000
Xen Tour
Europe Wide Ninja Tune Label Tour
Video Artist
Countries included: France,Spain Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Portugal
Lovebytes Festival Sheffield
Audio performance with Hot Snack
Come Feel the Noise The Spitz, London
Audio performance as Nish
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