Brown Sierra

...also known as Pia Gambardella and Paddy Collins are a London based Arts group. Their Interior installation and performance for startrunning is a new work that deals with the material of the building and the variety of acoustic properties that act as a filter for sound that pass through them. Together they will use the large loading bay doors in the space as a sounding board for the amplification of a variety of springs stretched and attached to them. For the installation the springs are repeatedly struck using small electric motors. Brown Sierra will also perform with the doors using motors and bows to activate the springs that will sometimes rest together harmoniously and sometimes create friction.

Chris Drury

…is a Manchester based artist whose diverse yet distinctive artwork has taken a turn from his high-end image-making role in Fingathing. For this newly created video installation, Drury has been exploring the more lo-fi styles of animation in order to reveal the repetitive patterns that reflect the mood of everyday routines and relationships between humans and the same space they inhabit.

Lee Patterson

…is a Manchester based Artist who works predominantly with sound. Patterson is renowned for his use of unorthodox materials and methods. His idiosyncratic approaches to generating sound have led to collaborations with a host of international artists and experimental musicians. For startrunning. Patterson will be performing live with an array of sound sources that he uses to creates and build charged improvised sound experiments. This intimate experience becomes the means by which collective tensions and secret languages might be unearthed.

Naomi Kashiwagi & Black Lodge

…are Manchester based Artists who have collaborated for startrunning to perform a unique sound installation using wind-up gramophones to play 78rpm shellac records. The records themselves have been physically altered by Black Lodge whose artistic practice is piled high with electronic innards. Kashiwagi is an artist who transforms the utilitarian and conceptual functions of everyday technologies and phenomena. She also challenges the inter-relationships and boundaries between art, music and language. When collaborating they rejoice in the pop and crackle of all that is dusty and obsolete, the long dead snarl of Italian singers, the field hollers of blind and Black America to coax new sounds from old machines that help the shellac tell its own story. With no batteries required the small gestures and ritualized movements they deliver embodies the uneasy relationship between the old and the new placing the viewer in the role of intruder and voyeur.

Sean Vinylment

…is a turntablist and producer based in Manchester. His healthy obsession with records and film has informed the masses through his awareness of the obscure and plain brilliance. The music played by Vinylment for the duration of startrunning will incorporate both warmth and confusion upon our psyche.