ROBIN BALE
Robin Bale is an improvising poet, performance and sound artist from London. Live, he uses various drums and his voice. He has been a regular on the live art and noise scenes in the city for more than a decade. Robin has made recorded work utilising sound and poetry for Resonance FM (also performing live on several programmes) and Live Art Development Agency and appeared in several festivals, including TARP audiovisual poetry in Lithuania and Tempting Failure in Croydon.
He makes improvised performances utilising verbal and non-verbal vocalisation and musical equipment, including self-built instruments. He also makes recordings that experiment with aural space and noise, creatively deploying studio technology to create sonic landscapes that reflect the fragmented and contested space of urban and exurban environments. His performances incorporate ritualised antagonism, the intonation of found texts and enigmatic phrases, historical trivia, grunts and howls and the pouring of Special Brew onto the floor as libation for the spirits of the dead. The texts are infested with sphinxes, ghosts and winos. These performances have often taken place in, and are responses to, what nowadays passes for public space.
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