Selected performances of free improv\/classical contemporary and new music:<\/b><\/p>\n
(please see www.thedestroyers.co.uk<\/a><\/strong> and www.bonfireradicals.com<\/a><\/strong> for band tour schedule)<\/p>\n 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Birmingham Passage’,\u00a0<\/i>lead by Xhosa Cole + Germa Adan, <\/i>Jennifer Blackwell space, Birmingham \u00a0and Sheffield Migration Matters festival, Sheffield 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n Sidewalk Stories<\/em>, lead by Xhosa Cole, Flatpack festival, Birmingham 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n Fizzle<\/i> improv with Bruce Coates, Walt Shaw and Lee Allatson 2020<\/b><\/p>\n 10 Acres of Sound <\/em>Tryptych, COVID compliant Stirchley gig carousel 2019<\/b><\/p>\n Muzikstan<\/i> Solo Set, St Columbus, Birmingham 2018<\/b><\/p>\n This is the Gallery and the Gallery is many things<\/i> SPACETIMEBAND, Birmingham, Eastside Projects 2017<\/b><\/p>\n Surge in Spring<\/i>, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham 2016<\/b><\/p>\n The Last Man<\/i> The Ashmolean, Oxford, Waste Paper Opera 2015<\/b><\/p>\n Solo Recital – Cardew, Schnittke, Part, Toovey<\/i> Birmingham Conservatoire 2014<\/b><\/p>\n Tendrils<\/i> Howard Skempton, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with Nuntempa, 2013<\/b><\/p>\n Orgelaprk Residency<\/i> Amsterdam – writing for MIDI organ 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n Awarded ACE Develop Your Creative Practise award 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n Sampling sounds of the future: What does the future of Coventry sound like?, <\/em>Coventry City of Culture, University of Warwick 2020<\/b> 2019 Mediafest<\/i>. Birmingham, Vivid Projects<\/p>\n 2018<\/b> 2017<\/b> 2016<\/b> 2015<\/b> 2014<\/b> 2012<\/b> 2011<\/b> 2010 <\/b> 2009 <\/b> 2008<\/b> 2007<\/b> Awards, Projects and Other Things<\/b><\/p>\n 2018 Director and Producer of Ideas of Noise experimental sound festival B:Music <\/strong><\/a>– Birmingham Town and Symphony Hall music engagement projects with young people Peripatetic strings teacher for Dudley Borough Music service
\nImprovised String Quartet with Richard Scott, Hannah Marshall and Angharrad Davies, <\/i>MAC Brimingham
\nAMOK, <\/i>Artefact, Stirchley
\nPaul Dunmall & Tony Dudley-Evans 80th Birthday gigs, Jennifer Blackwell Space, Birmingham<\/p>\n
\nImprovised String Quartet with Richard Scott, Hannah Marshall and Angharrad Davies, <\/i>MAC Brimingham
\nAbstract Visions, <\/i>Steve Saunders Septet, Eastside Jazz Club, Birmingham, Symphony Hall Birmingham
\nDead Cat Bounce, <\/i>Waste Paper Opera, Somerset House<\/p>\n
\nFlatpack festival<\/i> Xhosa Cole ensemble, Town Hall, Brimingham
\nFlatpack festival+Fizzle<\/i> New Composer Collective, Attic Brewery
\nSurge in Spring<\/i> Surge Orchestra + Dead as Dillinger, The MAC, Birmingham<\/p>\n
\nJazzlines<\/i> Riverloam Trio featuring Paul Dunmall + Sarah Farmer, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
\nIdeas of Noise<\/i>, with Andrew Woodhead, Anna Palmer, Gerorgia Denham, Ruskin Glass Centre, Dudley
\nRBC International Women’s Day,<\/i> Eastside Jazz Club, Birmingham
\nVorephilia<\/em>, Waste Paper Opera, Supported by the Medical Research Council and 30 Bird<\/p>\n
\nCheltenham Jazz Festival + Cafe Oto,\u00a0<\/i> with Rachel Musson, I Went This Way<\/em>
\nSupersonic International Women’s Day gig<\/i> Solo improv set, Centrala Birmingham
\nFizzle\/TDE promotions<\/i> with Steve Tromans, The Hexagon, Birmingham
\nStourbridge 2nd festival of Improvised Music<\/i> Claptrap, Stourbridge<\/p>\n
\nTamburlaine, Royal Shakespeare Company
\nSupersonic<\/i>, Birmingham
\nStourbridge 1st festival of Improvised Music<\/i> Claptrap, Stourbridge<\/p>\n
\nDido Queen of Carthage<\/i>, Royal Shakespeare Company
\nClub Integra<\/i>, free improv trio ‘Emily Smith’ with Richard Scott, Trevor Lines, The Edge, Birmingham
\nBEAST FEaST<\/a><\/i> featured artist, University of Birmingham. .<\/p>\n
\nThe Remarkable Rocket<\/i>, Tete a Tete Festival London, Waste Paper Opera
\nIxiom Ensemble <\/i>at CoMA Summer School
\nThe Lark Ascending<\/i>, Vaughan Williams, Kiddiminster town Hall, Wyre Forrest Symphony Orchestra<\/p>\n
\nMoseley Jazz Festival, Sid Peacock’s Surge Orchestra<\/i>
\nFairport’s Cropredy Festival 2015, playing with Fairport Convention
\nBBC Proms, Royal Academy of Music – Michael Finnissy chamber concert
\nA Moveable Feast<\/i> Mark Pringle Ensemble, Manchester Jazz Festival
\nConcert Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra<\/i>, Rimsky-Korsakov, Kidderminster Town Hall, Wyre Forrest Symphony Orchestra (soloist)<\/p>\n
\nLandscape No.1<\/i> Toru Takemitsu, Wigmore Hall, London with Nuntempa
\nAS:If\/Duets on Ice<\/i> rework of piece by Laurie Anderson, Birmingham Library
\nIn C<\/i> Terry Riley, with Surge and Thallein, Birmingham Library
\nFolliage<\/i>, Elliot Sharp
\nOccam’s Razor<\/i>, Elliot sharp, with Nuntempa and the Elysian quartet<\/p>\n
\nWheels of Emptiness<\/i>, Jonathan Harvey, with Thallein Ensemble<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Art<\/h3>\n<\/div>
\nPendulums<\/em> tour, Andrew Woodhead (Birmingham\/London\/Sheffield\/Norwich\/Newcastle)<\/p>\n
\nRandom String\/Ludic Rooms<\/em> for Coventry City of Culture, with Ideas of Noise<\/p>\n
\nIdeas of Noise festival<\/i> Birmingham\/Coventry\/Stourbridge<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>This is the Gallery and the Gallery is many things<\/i> Birmingham, Eastside Projects<\/p>\n
\nIdeas of Noise festival<\/i> Birmingham
\nRadical Sabatical artists<\/i> undertaking research residency with Gravitational Waves physicists at the University of Birmingham<\/p>\n
\nBEAST FEaST<\/a><\/i> featured artist April 27th-29th 2017 Bramhall building University of Birmingham.<\/p>\n
\nSound Kitchen<\/i> Vivid Projects, Birmingham<\/p>\n
\nIdeas of Noise<\/i> pilot, HfWAS Birmingham (performed and curated)<\/p>\n
\nAS:If\/Duets on Ice<\/i> rework of piece by Laurie Anderson, Birmingham Library, part of Frontiers Festival<\/p>\n
\nAntiscrape<\/i> Birmingham University\/Capsule Residency (WInterbourne House and Lapworth Museum)
\nSupersonic festival,<\/i> Installation, The Custard factory, Birmingham
\nSupersonic taster festival,<\/i> Live performance as part of Supersonic’s pre-festival warm up gig, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
\nCurious sounds in curious spaces,<\/i> Symphony hall 25th anniversary celebration, curated by Fierce! Symphony Hall, Birmingham<\/p>\n
\nCurfew Tower<\/i> residency, Cushendall
\nCRASH<\/i>, With Contingent of the First Response, VIVID, Birmingham
\nNoise and Capitalism<\/i>, The Garage Presents, VIVID, Birmingham<\/p>\n
\nSideshow2010<\/i>, Collaboration with Joanne Masding, Nottingham
\nD.I.Y, Residency and exhibition<\/i> curated by Surface Arts, Exeter
\nBarnaby Art Market<\/i>, Curated by Contents May Vary, Macclesfield
\nSonic Juke Box<\/i>, SoundFjord, London
\nCu<\/i>, Curated by Contents May Vary, Palace Hotel, Manchester
\nSecret Lives of a Building<\/i>, The Vaults, Birmingham<\/p>\n
\nBuilding Up Not Tearing Down<\/i>, tactileBOSCH, Residency and exhibition, Cardiff
\nFamily Fun Day<\/i>, Rea Garden, Birmingham
\nChangeover Exhibition<\/i>, Temporary Art Space, Halifax<\/p>\n
\nRhys and Hannah presents…Goodbye space, Hello spaces<\/i>, Bristol
\nBirmingham City University BA Fine Art 3rd year show, Birmingham<\/p>\n
\nSP\/ARK UP<\/i>, Creative Industries Centre, Wolverhampton
\nBig Beetle<\/i>, The Works Gallery, Birmingham<\/p>\n
\n2017 Recipient of a-n Professional development bursary
\n2016 Learning Assistant at Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
\n2014 Archive and exhibition co-ordinator for FIERCE! live art organisation
\n2011 Platinum 2 selected artist, an artist mentorship scheme for artists working with performance. Supported by FIERCE<\/a>
\n2009-Present Founding member of The Lombard Method, Birmingham
\n2008-Present Associate of Eastside Projects, Birmingham
\n2008 Ikon Gallery BA Fine Art Prize<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Participation<\/h3>\n<\/div>
Selected past projects and posts<\/b><\/h4>\n
\nRoundhouse Theatr<\/a>e<\/strong> – Roundhouse Jam, developing and delivering multi sensory AV experiences for people with PMLD
\n12 Tones\/Eastside Projects<\/a><\/strong> – Community engagement project delivering sound art workshops accross Birmingham raising awareness of and encouraging participation in a new public artwork happening at HS2 by Susan Philipsz
\nBOM\/Baskerville College <\/a><\/strong>– Teaching science to teens with Autism through art reserch project
\nSoundlab Cov<\/a><\/strong> – Facilitating regular creative music workshops for young people in Coventry
\nImagineer Productions<\/a><\/strong> – The Imagineerium Initiative, teaching STEM subjects through the arts
\nBig Top Musical Adventures<\/a><\/strong> – Our Word: Profound Arts workshops and public exhibition
\nBirmingham Contemporary Music Group Learing and Participation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Learning Trainee & Assistant) Developing and delivering unique projects and monthly creative music workshops
\nAnawim<\/strong><\/a> – Regular therapeutic arts classes for service users
\nArdenleigh mental health clinic – Regular therapeutic arts classes for service users<\/p>\n
\nPeripatetic strings teacher for Birmingham Music Service<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1396\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}