'Curious Frequencies' a film by Howard Walmsley 16 May 2024

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'Curious Frequencies' a film by Howard Walmsley

NB: capacity of this event has been reached!

*Event News* Thursday 16th May at SODA from 6pm
Special screening of Curious Frequencies, a film by Howard Walmsley.
Curious Frequencies documents the recording of 808 State's album Transmission Suite at Granada Studios, with Graham Massey from 808 State contributing thoughts on the influence of the studio space on the creative process and its historical significance in the city.
Spiralling off from the studio, the music is transposed into a soundtrack for cityscape, where members of the public were invited to listen to the album on headphones whilst walking the streets of Manchester and to record their thoughts.
Watch the screening and engage in a special Q&A with both Howard and Graham Massey, hosted by our Trustee Michael Anthony Barnes-Wynters.

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Curious Frequencies - Screening and Q&A with Howard Walmsley and Graham Massey, chaired by Michael Barnes-Wynters

SODA


Manchester


Director: Howard Walmsley 2023


Duration: 40 mins


This film is a meditation on the call and response of
listening, of the relationship between personal space and the collective
experience of rave culture. It also serves as a historical record of the
interior of the Granada Studios building, which is no longer extant, having
since been redeveloped. Abandoned and full of dated technology, the
Transmission Suite is the former broadcast hub of Granada TV Studios in
Manchester.


Years after Granada TV relocated, electronic music pioneers
808 State set up their recording studio in the space to record the album
‘Transmission Suite’. This has great significance for the band as this building
is where they made their first TV appearance 30 years previously.


Curious Frequencies documents the recording of the album,
with Graham Massey from 808 State contributing thoughts on the influence of the
studio space on the creative process and its historical significance in the
city.


This instrumental music is an ideal departure point for
imagination to wander. Spiralling off from the studio, the music is transposed
into a soundtrack for cityscape, where members of the public were invited to
listen to the album on headphones whilst walking the streets of Manchester and
to record their thoughts.


We hear reveries, memories, insecurities and observations
drifting through the urban environment, punctuated by reflections from Massey.


Curious Frequencies is an experiment in audio elicitation
that explores the inner worlds of the volunteer participants, the studio
environment and the textured strata of the city.


What happens when you listen to this?


Both Howard Walmsley and Graham Massey will be 'in
conversation' after it's screening, hosted by Michael Barnes-Wynters.


This event screening begins MDMA's 21st anniversary celebratory year