All the Whistlers ︎ Aliaskar Abarkas & NEIL LUCK ︎24 AUGUST ︎
All the Whistlers ︎ Aliaskar Abarkas & NEIL LUCK ︎24 AUGUST ︎
All THE WHISTLERS / FREE WORKSHOP
ALIASKER ABARKAS anD neil Luck
All THE WHISTLERS / FREE WORKSHOP
ALIASKER ABARKAS anD neil Luck
ALIASKER ABARKAS anD neil Luck
24 AUG
14:00-17:00
FREE BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL
FOOD & DRINK AVAILABLE Join All the Whistlers in this workshop by Aliaskar Abarkas, and guest artist Neil Luck to explore a vision of a contemporary sonic myth and compose an anthem for whistling. Participate in sonic and somatic activities as we delve into the possibilities of developing our musical language. This workshop aims to create new compositions that respond to the architecture and unique characteristics of TACO!
Creating a nomadic space for experimentation and learning, these workshops aim to explore the social power of collective whistling, fostering community connections, and peer building. Each session is followed by a composer responding to the project with a song for collective whistling.
Composer Neil Luck’s work often engages with ideas around creating new, or weirding old traditions. For the workshop at Taco! he has devised a suite of experimental pieces for any number of whistling voices, based on various traditions of partner/game singing. These will be further adapted, personalised, and reinvented by participants to create a body of music of strange logics and twisted musical codes.
︎ All the Whistlers are welcome to join. No former skills are required.
︎ Each session stands alone; however, there will be a correlation between the gatherings As the project progresses, we will also incorporate recently commissioned music as the foundation for our workshops, ultimately leading towards the publication of an LP.
︎ A planned live broadcast performance on RTM forms part of the workshop.
In the project All The Whistlers, Aliaskar collaborates with diverse creative networks and participants, documenting the process leading to musical compositions, visuals, and performances. Aliaskar holds a fellowship at Sadler’s Wells/Rose Choreographic School (London, 2024-26). He was an associate artist at Castro (Italy), Open School East (UK), the Institute of Postnatural Studies (Spain), Rupert (Lithuania), and Syllabus V (UK). Aliaskar holds a BFA and MA in Fine Arts and Theory of Art from the University of Tehran and Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a recipient of an Arts Council England Project Grant. Most recently, his work has been presented and supported by, The Mosaic Rooms London, CAPC Bordeaux, LOCALES Rome, The Barbican Centre, among others.
Dr Neil Luck is a UK-based composer and artist. His work explores the interaction between live performance and multimedia, often framing music-making as curious, weird, useful, or spectacular.
His work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals such as internationally including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, BBC Proms, Aarhus and Vilnius European Capital of Culture festivals (2017, 2009), V&A, Tokyo Experimental Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, BBC Radio 3, Venice Biennale, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, MATA Festival (New York), BBC Proms, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), November Music, Klangforum Wien, Apartment House, and Explore Ensemble. Neil also performs with artist Jennifer Walshe in the duo WACK, touring internationally.
His music is released on labels including Entr'acte, Nonclassical, Accidental Records, and squib-box. Neil is a professor of Experimental Music Performance at the Royal College of Music, London.
This workshop is the second event as part of a new series of collaborations, where Aliaskar works in collaboration with seven arts organisations on a series of sound workshops, commissions, panel discussions and more. Collaborating organisations for this project include Barbican Centre, Cubitt, ICA, Sadler’s Wells, Swiss Church, TACO!, and The Mosaic Rooms.
The project is funded by Arts Council England and Rose Choreographic School.
Creating a nomadic space for experimentation and learning, these workshops aim to explore the social power of collective whistling, fostering community connections, and peer building. Each session is followed by a composer responding to the project with a song for collective whistling.
Composer Neil Luck’s work often engages with ideas around creating new, or weirding old traditions. For the workshop at Taco! he has devised a suite of experimental pieces for any number of whistling voices, based on various traditions of partner/game singing. These will be further adapted, personalised, and reinvented by participants to create a body of music of strange logics and twisted musical codes.
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︎Please book your place here︎ All the Whistlers are welcome to join. No former skills are required.
︎ Each session stands alone; however, there will be a correlation between the gatherings As the project progresses, we will also incorporate recently commissioned music as the foundation for our workshops, ultimately leading towards the publication of an LP.
︎ A planned live broadcast performance on RTM forms part of the workshop.
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Aliaskar Abarkas is a London-based artist and writer. Committed to alternative and communal art education, he employs a choreographic and sonic approach to facilitate the dynamic interplay between individuals, guiding a transition from isolated experiences to collective expressions. Through strategic engagement with institutional infrastructures, he proposes and tests methodologies that reimagine open contexts within which his practice evolves and circulates, resulting in contingent shifts in the dimensions of ideas and material forms. In the project All The Whistlers, Aliaskar collaborates with diverse creative networks and participants, documenting the process leading to musical compositions, visuals, and performances. Aliaskar holds a fellowship at Sadler’s Wells/Rose Choreographic School (London, 2024-26). He was an associate artist at Castro (Italy), Open School East (UK), the Institute of Postnatural Studies (Spain), Rupert (Lithuania), and Syllabus V (UK). Aliaskar holds a BFA and MA in Fine Arts and Theory of Art from the University of Tehran and Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a recipient of an Arts Council England Project Grant. Most recently, his work has been presented and supported by, The Mosaic Rooms London, CAPC Bordeaux, LOCALES Rome, The Barbican Centre, among others.
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Dr Neil Luck is a UK-based composer and artist. His work explores the interaction between live performance and multimedia, often framing music-making as curious, weird, useful, or spectacular.
His work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals such as internationally including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, BBC Proms, Aarhus and Vilnius European Capital of Culture festivals (2017, 2009), V&A, Tokyo Experimental Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, BBC Radio 3, Venice Biennale, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, MATA Festival (New York), BBC Proms, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), November Music, Klangforum Wien, Apartment House, and Explore Ensemble. Neil also performs with artist Jennifer Walshe in the duo WACK, touring internationally.
His music is released on labels including Entr'acte, Nonclassical, Accidental Records, and squib-box. Neil is a professor of Experimental Music Performance at the Royal College of Music, London.
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This workshop is the second event as part of a new series of collaborations, where Aliaskar works in collaboration with seven arts organisations on a series of sound workshops, commissions, panel discussions and more. Collaborating organisations for this project include Barbican Centre, Cubitt, ICA, Sadler’s Wells, Swiss Church, TACO!, and The Mosaic Rooms.
The project is funded by Arts Council England and Rose Choreographic School.