Patrick Farmer
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2025
1st February. Symposium of the Whole. With Nisha Ramayya, Jessa Carta, Stephen Cornford, Kelly Krumrie, Daniela Cascella.
2021
1st-12th November. Light sounds Air. Photosynthetic sound installation at COP26, Glasgow. W. Roosmarijn Pallandt.
7th-31st October. The Hidden Noise: Tinnitus and Art. An exhibition curated by Marie Thompson, Lucy Phillips and myself, with new work by Fern Thomas and Nina Thomas. OVADA.
15th April. A talk about walking and tinnitus whilst walking. Walking Festival of Sound.
13th April-9th June. On Vibration lecture series.
12th April. Sonic Art Research Unit Visting Practitioner talk with Tom Tlalim and Matt Parker.
5th-9th April. audiograft festival.
15th March. Sonic Art Research Unit Visting Practitioner talk with Nisha Ramayya and Matt Parker.
2020
5th October. Playback of a panel discussion, with live Q & A, with Marie Thompson, John Drever and myself, as part of the British Tinnitus Association Conference.
30th April. Reading a new work, Long Shadows Before the First Star, via a Disonare live stream.
12th-22nd March. audiograft festival, Oxford.
12th March. South London Gallery. Auraldiversities Chase talk, with Ingrid Plum and Stuart Wilding. The third in a series of three talks about a new work titled, To Suckle a Field of Monsters.
27th February. Foundling Museum. Auraldiversities Chase talk, with Josephine Dickinson and Richard Hamblyn. The second in a series of three talks about ecstasy, enstasy, the weather and electromagnetic frequencies.
13th February. Goldsmiths. Auraldiversities Chase talk, with Jon Drever. The first in a series of three talks about membranes, soft doors and speculative listening
2019
30th November. Talk with Dr. Marie Thompson, concerning ‘Tinnitus, Auditory Knowledge and the Arts’, at the first Aural Diversity conference, Leicester University
22nd-27th August. Residency with David Lacey at Capel Y Graig.
25th July-7th September). Group show at the Old Fire Station, Oxford. I’ll be showing Vocabulary, a new composition, and a realisation by Joseph Clayton Mills. Alongside Atlas, a score by Joseph Clayton Mills, and the first part of my ingoing realisation.
24th-28th June. Residency at Capel Y Graig.
4th-11th May. Open Studios at Oxford’s Old Fire Station as part of ‘Arts Week’.
21st-25th May. Marseille. Poetic Approaches to Silence. Exhibition of scores, including work by Jürg Frey, Evia-Maria Houben, and Catherine Lamb.
23rd. London. Cafe Oto. Launch of Azimuth. With Helen Frosi, Nisha Ramayya, Brigitte Hart, and Fourthland.
2018
20th October. Glasgow, Old Hairdressers. Duo for prepared loudspeakers with David Lacey.
1st-30th September. Listening and its not exhibited at the International Notation Colloqiuim in Mexico City.
15th-20th August. Recording walking and kettle drums with Clara de Asis
7th-14th June. Residency with David Lacey at the Sirius Arts Centre in Covh, Ireland. Working on two versions of ‘Metre’, by Thomas Martin Nutt.
2017
14th May. Headington Hill Hall. Performing with Bruno Guastalla, Rebecca Lee, and Samuel Rodgers.
8th May. The Shakespeare. Sheffield. Performing Joseph Clayton Mills’s Pieces for String with Ryoko Akama and Stephen Chase. Supporting Katelyn Clark and Isaiah Ceccarelli.
1st April. House show in Sheffield with David Lacey, Samuel Rodgers, and Stephen Chase.
3rd March. Ashmolean Museum. Oxford. Performing pieces by George Brecht, and as a duo, for open cd players and harmonium, with Paul Whitty.
24th Feb. Modern Art Oxford. Performing three new commissions with The Set Ensemble, based on the works of Leonora Carrington. W/ Distractfold (Duo) / Jeph Jerman and Tim Barnes.
2016
11th December. Cheltenham. Residency at Hardwick Gallery with the Set Ensemble, rehearsing and performing Two Hundred Pieces of Music, by Lawrence Dunn.
3rd May. Sound I’m Particular. Oxford, Old Fire Station. A talk entitled, Crowded Lithium.
10th March. Oxford. Audiograft Festival. Duo performance with David Lacey.
11th March. Oxford. Audiograft Festival. Dialogue with Ben Gwilliam.
2015
5th December. Aarhus. Where Were We, Art Writing Festival. Solo performance of Border.
21st November. Ftarri Festival. Tokyo. Quartet performance of Border, by Rhodri Davies, Seiji Murayama, Tanaka YuYoshiko, Ko Ishikawa.
22nd November. Ftarri Festival. Tokyo. Live soundtrack to Stephen Cornford’s Digital Audio Film, with Stephen Cornford and Madoka Kuono.
24th November. Ftarri Shop. Tokyo. Solos, duos, trios, with Rhodri Davies and Takizawa Tomoe.
1st August. FON Festival. Barrow-In-Furness. Solo snare drum performance.
20th July. Café Oto, London. F.M.R.L. Responding to Daniela Cascella’s new publication on Zero Books, with Trevor Simmons.
24th-31st May. Oxford. Residency at Oxford Brookes with David Lacey.
11th-15th May. Grizedale. Culmination of We find the body difficult to speak, at Grizedale Forest with Sarah Hughes.
27th May. Oxford. Septet performances of scores by Sarah Hughes, Joseph Clayton Mills, and Adam Sonderberg.
16th-20th February. Grizedale. FIrst of a two part residency with Sarah Hughes.
15th January. Nottingham Trent University. Talk about George Brecht’s Water Yam and Compost & Height at Live Lecture Series, with Sarah Hughes.
2014
6th December. Q-O2, Brussels. Talk about George Brecht’s Water Yam and Compost & Height at the Winter School.
17th October. Primary Gallery, Nottingham. Responding to Edwin Burdis’ installation.
23rd-29th. September. Grizedale, Lake District. Last of a 4 part residency with the Forestry Commission and Sound and Music.
11th-14th. September. OTO project space. residency with Sarah Hughes and Samuel Rodgers.
10th May. Apiary Studios. London. Duo with Seymour Wright. An all day event hosted by Hideous Porta.
15th May. Caen, Normandy. Duo with David Lacey at the Interstice Festival.
12th February. Arnolfini Gallery. Bristol. A series of duo performances with Lee Patterson and Keith Rowe.
25th January. Arnolfini Gallery. Bristol. Writing sound symposium with Daniela Cascella, David Toop, Salome Voegelin, etc.
8th January. NOW now festival. Sydney. Australia. Exhibiting a series a pinhole composite prints. Alongside Sarah Hughes, Sally Ann Mcintyre, etc.
2013
19th October. he Round Chapel. London. Compost and Height and SARU present an evening of the music of Michael Pisaro & Makiko Nishikaze. Pieces performed will be July Mountain, Ricefall & Piano in Person 1
26th September. Lee Rosy’s. Nottingham. A trio performance with Jack Harris and Samuel Rodgers.
13th September. Lee Rosy’s. Nottingham. Patrick Farmer & Stephen Cornford. Yann Leguay. Greg Stuart.
12th September. Cafe Oto. London. Duo with Stephen Cornford as part of the Consumer Waste tour with Yann Leguay and Samuel Rodgers/Greg Stuart duo.
11th September. Arnonfini. Bristol. Patrick Farmer & Stephen Cornford. Yann Leguay. Dom Lash, Greg Stuart & Sam Rodgers.
10th September. Phoenix Gallery. Brighton. Inaugural show of the Consumer Waste Tour. Patrick Farmer & Stephen Cornford. Yann Leguay. Dom Lash, Greg Stuart & Sam Rodger. Jack Harris, Dan Jones & Sam Rodgers.
9th September. Bloc Space. Sheffield. Belated pictures of men release show with members of the Edges and Set Ensemble, plus David Lacey & Greg Stuart.
8th-12th July. Oxford Brookes. Oxford.
Teaching as part of the Field recording Summer course.
28th June. Brussels. Tuned City Festival.
Performing, espace intervallaire, with Lisa Lapierre.
21st June. Brighton. Phoenix Gallery.
Loris. Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Daniel Jones, Kostis Kilymis & myself perform, a tree is as complicated as is a word, by Patrick Farmer, and Sarah Hughes/Kostis Kilymis duo.
3rd June. Oxford Brookes. Oxford.
Field recording symposium – can field recordings to change the world?
12th February. Machine Project. Los Angeles.
Playback of, pictures of men (excerpt), and a brief talk afterwards.
2012
16th November. Brighton. Phoenix.Daniel Jones, David Lacey, and I will be performing at an event in the Aural Detritus concert series. We will be realising a piece by Sam Sfirri entitled 'to restore silence is the role of objects'.
9th-10th November. Oxford. St Columba's Church & The Holywell music hall.Two events taking place in Oxford. On Friday 9th there will be an evening performance at St Columba's Church. On Saturday 10th there will be an all day event at the Holywell music hall. More information soon.
7th November. Oxford. Brookes University.I will be speaking at the second Writing Sound Symposium at Oxford Brookes University, which I have curated. Michael Pisaro, Amy Cutler, Daniella Cascella, David Stent, and Salomé Voegelin will also speak. More information soon.
28th October. Manchester.I will be presenting a performative talk at the infromtheout series curated by Ben Gwillam and Helmut Lemke concerning my recent perambulations around the Welsh coast and the ways in which i attempted to document the environment that unfolded. More information soon.
13th October. London. Cafe Oto.Murmeration. Organised by the Another Timbre label to celebrate the release of the 'Wandelweiser und so weiter' boxset. I will be taking part in realisations of John Cage's four6, Michael Pisaro's Fields have ears 4, and James Saunders' things whole and not whole. The latter two realisations comprising of up to 40 musicians each. There will also be realisations of pieces by Sam Sfirri and Manfred Werder. .
17th August. London.Peforming as part of an ensemble at the Royal Albert Hall Proms. We will be performing John Cage's 'but what about the noise of crumpling paper...' and Branches.
19th - 22nd July. London.Residency with Stephen Cornford and Lee Patterson at the former Peek Frean's biscuit factory, now run by V22, in Bermondsey. This residency will end in a four hour long performance with various guests.
15h July. London.The Albion players realise sections from George Brecht’s Water Yam event scores as part of the Lost and Found festival at Kings Place.
7th February - 7th March. Wales.Walking the coastal path of Wales, a work entitled: we never stop hearing, when do i stop writing?
30th April. London.W/ John Tilbury, Eddie Prevost, Ilan Volkov, Kaffe Matthews, John Butcher, and others, realising Christian Wolff's, Stones. Kings Place.
23rd - 28th April. Glasgow.Recording and participating in the high-slack-low-slack-high festival.
18th April. Nottingham.Solo show at the Chameleon Cafe alongside Antoine Chesex.
1st March. Oxford.W/ Stephen Cornford and Sarah Hughes (The Albion Players) realising a score by Ben Owen at the Holywell Music Rooms, as part of the Audiograft Festival.
29th February. Oxford.W/ Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Stephen Cornford, Rob Curgenven, Ferran Fages, Daniel Jones & Lee Patterson. Performing John Cage's Cartridge Music. Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes, as part of the Audiograft Festival.
28th February. Oxford.Compost and Height curated exhibition with Ben Owen, Manfred Werder and myself. I will be exhibiting my prose poem, ad react always of being surrounded, 5 scrolls of paper, each originally measuring 420mm by 2500mm. The Old Fire Station as part of the Audiograft Festival.
5th February. Oxford.W/ Jason Kahn, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Cornford. Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga and Lawrence Dunn will also play. Art Jericho.
30th January. London.Guest lecturer at Middlesex University, focussing on relationships of the ear in the poetry of William Carlos Williams.
2011
17th February. Oxford. W/ The Set ensemble with Tim Parkinson, Angharad Davies, and Rhodri Davies. The Holywell Music Room as part of the audiograft festival.
26th February. London. W/ Dominic Lash, Hannah Marshall, Phil Durrant, Diatribes. Shoreditch Church.
27th February. London. W/ many many others. At Cafe Oto as part of Dominic Lash's leaving party.
8th March. Oxford.6 hour actulisation of Manfred Werder's ein(e) ausführende(r)
11th - 26th March. Brussels.Residence at Q-o2 with Sarah Hughes and Kostis Kilymis.
26th March. Brussels.Post residency concert with Sarah Hughes and Kostis Kilymis, performing a piece by Michael Pisaro written for the event.
6th April. Oxford.Solo. Supporting Arrington de Dionyso. At Art Jericho
12th April. Oslo. W/ Christian Munthe & Anders Dahl. At Café Mir
13th April. Malmo. W/ Christian Munthe. At Pa Besok.
15th April. Gothenburg. W/ Christian Munthe & Anders Dahl. Geiger Festival.
23rd April. London. W/ Chora. At The Dying Artist Festival. ICA.
13th May. Dublin. W/ Loris. I & E Festival.
14th May. Dublin. W/ David Lacey. I & E Festival.
27th May. Oxford. W/ Stephen Cornford & Sarah Hughes, supporting Koboko Senju. Art Jericho.
29th June. Oxford. W/ Bruno Guastalla, David Stent, and Sarah Hughes, performing John Cage's four6. Oxford Brookes Drama Studio.
3rd July. Brighton.W/ Claire Elizabeth Barret as part of the Black Mountain College conference.
10th July. Manchester.Solo turntable set supporting John Tilbury in a rendition of Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho! St Margaret's church.
13th July. Tallinn. Talk concerning the poetics of field recording. A Labyrinths and Rings night.
14th - 30th July. Mooste.Residency at Moks, Estonia.
1st August. London.Recording at Kew Gardens with Angharad Davies and others.
14th August. London.W/ David Lacey & Daniel Jones at Galerie8, Hackney.
20th August. London.Performing Stephan Thut's eine/r, 1-6 - Phase @ Unit 3:03
31st August. Brighton.W/ Daniel Jones & Stephen Cornford supporting Hong Chulki and Joonyong Choi. Upper Lounge at the Caroline of Brunswick.
10th September. Kent.W/ Angharad Davies & Matt Davis. Performing Fold by Lee Patterson.
30th September. Oxford. Four hour Performance, with Trevor Simmons, of Antoine Beuger's calme etendue (percussion). Christchurch Meadows.
1st October. Oxford. This has already had a history (0) performed by Rhodri Davies and Tim Parkinson. St Columba's Church.
2nd October. Oxford. Solo at Art Jericho.
7th October. Nante. Solo at Cable.
13th October. London. Polyply. Solo alongside Salome Voeglin, Peter Larkin.
12th - 15th October. Brussels. Field recording talks, performances, and discussions at Q-O2 symposium. Michael Pisaro, Manfred Werder, Sarah Hughes, Jason Kahn, and many others, will be taking part.
19th - 26th October. Glasgow. Time spent realising, discussing, performing, the scores of Christian Wolff, Ken Friedman, George Brecht. With Neil Davidson.
28th November. London.Diatribes + Lash/Farmer/Marshall/Durrant. St Leonards Church.
29th November. Oxford. Diatribes + Lash/Farmer/Marshall/Durrant. Port Mahon.
30th November. Bristol. Diatribes + Lash/Farmer/Marshall/Durrant. Cube Cinema.
1st November. Birmingham. Diatribes + Lash/Farmer/Marshall/Durrant. Lamp Tavern.
2nd November. Sheffield.Diatribes + Lash/Farmer/Marshall/Durrant. Redhouse.
3rd November. Manchester.Diatribes + Lash/Farmer/Marshall/Durrant. St Margarets Church.
4th November. Brighton.Diatribes + Lash/Farmer/Marshall/Durrant. Green Door Store.
18th November. Oxford.Word event symposium. A talk concerning environment and gesture in the poems of William Carlos WIlliams.
20th November - 4th December. Brussels.Residency with Dominic Lash & Helena Gough. 03.12.11. Brussels. Performance of Burkhard Schlothauer's Apples and Oranges with Dominic Lash, and a trio performance for multiple speakers with Dominic Lash and Helena Gough, at Qo2.
12th December. Oxford. Talk at Oxford Brookes concerning ways of documenting sound without microphones, Sarah Hughes will also talk.
7th - 20th December.London. Residency at Soundfjord | Collocate.
2010
2nd January. London.W/ Loris. Supporting John Tilbury and Sebastian Lexer. Another Timbre Mini Festival.
18th february. London.A talk concerning field recording methodologies at Middlesex University.
18th March. Brighton.Extended grouping W/ Hankil Ryu, Daniel Jones, Jez riley French, etc.
17th April. Newtown.Fantasy is a place where it rains. Installation at the Oriel Davies Gallery. With Sarah Hughes.
1st May. Hamburg.W/ Loris. The Blurred Edges Festival.
2nd October. London.W/ Yasuhiko Fukuzono supporting Jo Mango. Union Chapel
2nd October. London.W/ The Hunter Gracchus and Chora. Supporting Grinderman at the Coronet Theatre.
8th October. Edinburgh.W/ Neil Davidson
9th October. Glasgow.W/ Neil Davidson
27th October. Manchester.W/ WithBoat (Dominic Lash | David Thomas). Sacred Trinity Church.
30th October. London.W/ Dominic Lash, Hannah Marshall, Phil Durrant, Diatribes.
Shoreditch Church. 13.11.10. Oxford.W/ The Set Ensemble. Jacqueline Du Pre building.
26th November. Newtown.W/ WithBoat. Oriel Davies.
2009
16th January. Nottingham.W/ Dominic Lash & Matt Milton at the Radiator Festival, Broadway Cinema.
31st January. London.W/ Chora supporting Ashtray Navigations at Cafe Oto.
7th February. London.W/ Shale - Helena Gough. Daniel Jones. Matt Milton. Lee Patterson, Matt Davis, Ben Drew. Tim Parkinson & John Lely. Jez riley French.
12th February. London.W/ Stephen Cornford and Rob Gawthrop "three piece" - A kinetic sound sculpture for two electric guitars and one electric bass. Elevator Gallery.
15th February. Bristol.W/ Jez riley French & Simon Whetam. The Cube Cinema.
20th February. London.W/ Chora, Zun Zun Egui, Helhesten, Chris Corsano Mick Flower duo. Bardens Boudoir.
27th February. Derby/Birmingham.W/ The Good Anna and Pat Thomas. A Series of Shows and Workshops. Derby Jazz Rhythm a Ning.
28th March. London.Opening of the new Sound323 store at Cafe Oto. W/ Matt Milton, Sarah Hughes, Dominic Lash, Samantha Rebello: playing a text piece by Jason Brogan. Also playing are: For Barry Ray, Clive Bell and Mark Wastell, John Wall, Benedict Drew, Max Eastley, and Steve Beresford trio, Seymour Wright, Dominic Lash, Paul Abbot, and David Papapostolou quartet.
27th April. London. W/ Chora supporting Sonic Youth at the Scala.
21st May. Bristol.W/The Exploits of Elaine at the Croft.
13th June. Leeds.W/ Jez riley French, also playing will be the trio of Martin Küchen, Seymour Wright, and Keith Rowe. The Unnamed music festival at the Severn Arts Space.
26th June. London.W/ Robert Curgenven, The Seen will also play. Joint Confront records | Compost and height show at Cafe Oto.
16th September. London.W/ The Good Anna. Twi the Humble Feather and AU are also playing. Cafe Oto.
18th September. Nottingham.W/ The Good Anna. Trembling Bells and Ellen Mary McGee will also play. The Chameleon.
28th September. Nottingham.W/ A Cup of Tea. Twi the Humble Feather and David Thomas Broughton are also playing. The Maze.
7th October. Hull.W/ Sarah Hughes, Jez riley French, Shayla Reynolds. Durational exploration of the spaces & sounds in Holy Trinity Church. Scores by Christian Wolff & Jez riley French. Seeds & bridges event with free entry between 12pm to 4pm. Holy Trinity Church.
28th November. Bristol.W/ Loris and extended grouping including Matt Davies and Lea Piontek. Performing scores by Michael Pisaro and Manfred Werder, with videos by Joseph Clayton Mills. A Compost and Height night. Cube Cinema