The Bush Theatre presents non zero one
Allow your curiosity to lead you through the building that has been the home of the Bush for the last 40 years. Stolen kisses in the corner, furrowed brows on the fire escape, those final deep breaths before lines are spoken for the first time – encounter the past and dance with the future – what will you take from this place, and what will you leave behind?
this is where we got to when you came in is an interactive journey through the Bush Theatre, giving participants the chance to take their last, or perhaps even first, steps around the building before its doors close after 4 decades of performances.
“The hugely talented non zero one are helping say goodbye to the Bush theatre with an interactive journey through the old space” Guardian
Part of the Bush’s 32 Degree West Season – the angle from the front door of our old home of 39 years to our new home at 7 Uxbridge Road”‘
non zero one make interactive performances using popular technologies. Their work explores the relationship between performer and participant. It discovers ways in which ties can be made and broken; power won and lost, and experiences shared or made deeply personal, both during and after the performance itself. The company made their London debut with would like to meet at the Southwark Playhouse in 2009, which was presented as part of BITE ’10 at the Barbican Centre last year. They have also presented work at The Basement in Brighton, Forest Fringe in Edinburgh and Bring The Happy Festival in Leeds. non zero one are supported artists of The Basement, Brighton.
Elinor is currently under commission to the Bush Theatre. Her short play The Circle Game was the winner of Old Vic New Voice’s Time Warner Ignite 3 and is going to Latitude. Her play Head Music will be going on tour this summer, as part of Box of Tricks Head/Heart project. Microwave, her most recent play, received a workshop at the National Theatre Studio, directed by Charlotte Gwinner. She has had short pieces performed at Trafalgar Studios, the Arcola and Theatre 503, as well as a reading of her first play at the Royal Court as part of their Young Writers’ Festival. She works in the literary department of the William Morris agency.
James Bulley is a Sound Artist, Composer and PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work focuses upon the exploration of new methods of composition through sound installations and large scale durational sound pieces.
Most recent works includes Variable 4, created in collaboration with Daniel Jones, a 24 hour outdoor site-specific 8 channel sound installation that composes and plays music in real time based on the second by second incoming weather conditions. The piece uses custom designed software, natural algorithms and a meteorological grade weather station to compose music using a score of 24 musical movements. It’s most recent installation (May 28th-29th 2011) was the result of a commission and artist residency from Aldeburgh Music at Snape Maltings, Suffolk with the piece previously having been installed in Dungeness, Kent as the result of a PRSF Live Connections award (May 22nd-23rd 2010).
He has shown work at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (Equal Temperance, A schizophonic composition for 29 pianos, 2009), the Southbank Centre (Kindertransport, 2010), the London Festival of Architecture (X Street, 2010) and the UK Young Artists Festival (Connection Failed, 2010).
He is currently archivist for the Daphne Oram collection, the founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and pioneer of drawn sound synthesis and is co-curating a forthcoming exhibition on her work at the Science Museum, London. As a music producer, He has worked with and produced records for Fred Deakin (Lemon Jelly, Airside), Pete Greenwood (Heavenly Records) and Trojan Sound System.
Alongside his sound works, James is co-founder of OOXXOO a London based publishing collective that curates exhibitions and research focused around the subject of Synaesthesia.
