2010

The performance of Score 7: COLLABORATE at Kingswood school on 16 October 2009 was twinned with a performance of the same score on 15 December 2009 at L'Ecole Guillaume Manigat, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

At Kingswood's morning assembly on 20 January 2010, John Hirst and Bill Drummond told the pupils about their experience with working with the pupils in Haiti. It was also the launch of the appeal to raise funds for the needs of the pupils and the rebuilding and furbishing of L'Ecole Guillaume Manigat. Tracey Moberly, the artist who took the photos at the school, was also there to show the prints of these photos.

Ongoing information about the money raised and what use it is being put to will be documented on these EVENTS pages.

An exhibition of photographs taken by Tracey Moberly of local members of The17 on 15 December 2009 in L'Ecole Guillaume Manigat, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The photographs are hung as large scale unframed prints around the school. They depict members of The17 in formal and casual poses. They are brilliant.

DROP OF THE HAT is an online publication based on a blog that started in January 2009 and ended 12 months later. The blog documented and explored issues arising from a performance based on SCORE 320: CHOOSE. The score was performed by Emily & James Unknown. They also wrote the blog.

This Haiti fundraising event was organised by John Hirst and Karen Reilly. As well as there being a raffle and performances by The Neutrinos, BK & Dad and Death of Death of Discoteque, Bill Drummond lead a short performance of The17 with everybody in the bar at that particular time. This event is twinned with another event at The Bicycle Shop, 17 St Bennedicts Street, Norwich.

Bill Drummond gave a performance/lecture at this year's by:Larm festival in Oslo.

Bill Drummond gave a performance/lecture at the Supermarket Art Fair in the Kulturhuset, Stockholm. His performance was part of the Documentation / Non Documentation series of talks and discussions.

Bill Drummond was patron for the Haiti Earthquake Fundraiser @ The Roundhouse. His involvement in the event was undefined. What is known is that he wrote a piece for the event's website - to read it click here. On the night he said a few words and lead the world premier of Score 357: LOUDER & LOUDER.

This is a very intimate weekend literary festival. The performance that Bill Drummond gave was even more intimate. The Boat House in question was the home of Dylan Thomas and Drummond's performance was on the top floor of this house. It being so intimate tickets for this performance sold out immediately and thus tickets bought for the whole weekend would not give access to this particular event. Thus Drummond's name had to be taken off the posters and flyers and published line up. This is a link to what else was available to be taken in at the Laugharne Weekend 2010. 

Read PB Poster 217 40 Posters In Stockholm to know what this event is. It is also one half of a performance of Score 358: TRANSLATE. The other half of this performance was happening in a small area of North East London. It is also part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour.

Bill Drummond performed Score 358: TRANSLATE in central Stockholm and a small part of North East London. This performance is considered part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. Further information and documentation can be found elsewhere.

Bill Drummond was invited to give a talk and lead a performance by The17 at the 2010 European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Radio Drama Workshop. The EBU is based in Geneva and its Radio Drama Workshop is held in a different European state, every second year. In 2010 it was hosted by HRT/Croatia in Zagreb. The Workshop was 9 - 11 June. The overall title for 2010 was "Listen Again: The Power of Sounds".

Bill Drummond gave a Performance/Lecture at An Lanntair, the evening before the performance of Score 8: TAKE.

An Lanntair is "a beacon for the Arts in the Highlands and Islands. Bringing you the very best in Arts, Events, Music and Cinema, Food, Shopping and Relaxation all day from 10am until late - Monday to Saturday."

This was the annual performance of Score 8: TAKE. The Callanish Stones are an ancient stone circle in the middle of the Isle-of-Lewis. This performance is also part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour and will be twinned with a performance of the same score, to be performed near Almendres Cromlech, Evora, Portugal in June 2011.  If you want to take part in this performance contact admin@the17.org. Or turn up at the Stones at 7am on the 19 June.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

Bill Drummond lead The17 through a performance of the UK premier of the score NIGHTCLUBBING at Camp Bestival 2010. The performance included ten sessions with groups of 17 individuals. Each session took place throughout Saturday 31 July at the festival site. The combined performance/recording was played back through the main PA on the Sunday evening.

This performance is part of The17 City-to-City world tour.

The Institute of Music of Oldenburg University invited Bill Drummond to lead a performance by The17 in Oldenburg as part of the Sounding D festival. Sounding D is organised by Netwerk Neue Musik. Sounding D is happening at various cities across Germany including Oldenburg. In Oldenburg the festival is based at the city's railway station and takes on the name Bahnklang (Train Sound). Drummond lead a performance of Score 328: SURROUND

If you are a German speaker and want to know more please visit:

http://www.musik.uni-oldenburg.de/medien/47863.html

http://www.klangpol.de/

This was The17's premier performance in Germany.

Kofomi#15 - KOMPONISTENFORUM Mittersill (Mittersill Composers' Forum) is a nine day forum for contemporary composers and musicians. It is situated in the small Austrian town of Mittersill.  Webern, one of the greatest composers of the 20th-century, lived and worked in the town for the last few years of his life before he was shot.

The first Mittersill Composers' Forum was in 1996. Bill Drummond was the composer in residence for this year's forum. He gave lectures and lead workshops. At the end of the week he also lead a performance of The17, made up of everyone attending the Forum.
 

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

Bill Drummond was a guest lecturer at the Do Lectures 2010. He also lead the performance of three scores by The17. To know what the Do Lectures are visit their site: http://www.dolectures.com/about-do/

As part of The17's world tour Bill Drummond launched a performance of Score 321: SHOW in Milton Keynes, England. On Wednesday 22 September 2010 he elicited the 100 responses needed for this score, in bars and cafes across the city. 

This performance is twinned with another performance of the same score that John Hirst lead in Anchorage, Alaska at the same time.

The 200 collected responses were then used as text on 200 different editions of beer mats. These beer mats were distributed throughout bars in both Milton Keynes and Anchorage.  Written and photographic documentation of these two performances of SHOW were added to the TOUR section of The17 site.

This score was originally scheduled to be performed in Milton Keynes and Anchorage in July but was postponed due to the unforeseen urge to commit graffiti.

Un-Conventions are "international music conferences for the grass roots of the industry". Drummond gave a performance/lecture in Salford Station's underpass at noon on Friday 1 October. He lead a large scale performance of SURROUND across the city starting at noon on Saturday 2 October. He also lead a performance of TWO TRIBES at the Salford Lad's Club at noon on Sunday 3 October, but this performance had to be postponed.  The performance of TWO TRIBES was part of The17's Coast-toCoast world tour.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is a repainting of the first of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. The original was painted in 2008 and subsequently painted over by the local authorities. If this was to happen again, Drummond may return and repaint the graffiti. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

Bill Drummond lead a performance of the Score 360: BEFORE ANY MEAL with members of the crew at The Insomnia Festival onboard the retired whaler Vulcana. This is a new score composed while Drummond was a composer in residence at the Mittersill Composers Forum 2010 in Austria. It was composed to act as both a secular and pan-religious grace that can be performed before any meal.

This performance is to be part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour and is to be twinned with a performance of the same score on a trawler working out of Scotland. This will happen sometime in 2011.

As with all locations on The17's world tour, Drummond made one of the IMAGINE WAKING TOMORROW AND ALL MUSIC HAS DISAPPEARD graffiti, on a bridge in the city.

This is one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

Claudel Casseus as the Penkiln Burn 'You & Me - Me & You' collaborator for 2010 has been making a number of hand painted T-shirts to promote The17 in Haiti. Claudel Casseus is the man standing in the left of the photograph below. These T-shirts are commercially available.

This was the postponed performance of TWO TRIBES that was originally scheduled for 3 October as part of Un Convention. The two tribes included in this performance were members of the Irlam Amateur Boxing Club and members of the Salford Lads Boxing Club, and took place inside the Salford Lads Club. This performance is to be twinned with a performance of the same score with two warring tribes in Papua New Guinea and is also part of The17 Coast-to-Coast world tour.

This reconnoitre to the Runcorn Bridge was done by Drummond to find if it was suitable for a IMAGINE WAKING TOMORROW & ALL MUSIC HAD DISAPPEARED graffiti. It is and will be done when the weather is fine and the schedule allows.

This reconnoitre to the Blue Bridge over the M4 was done by Drummond to find if it was suitable for an IMAGINE WAKING TOMORROW & ALL MUSIC HAD DISAPPEARED graffiti. This bridge is not far from Bristol and carries the South Wales Main Line trains. To Drummond's dissapointment, he believes that because of the frequency of highspeed trains over the bridge, an attempt to make a graffiti that would do this particular bridge justice, would be a bridge too far.

HAITI RISING - Haitian History, Culture & the Earthquake of 2010. Edited by Martin Munro and published by Liverpool University Press. Included in this book is a story written by Bill Drummond entitled What Is This Earthquake For?

To find out more about the book click here.

Terminal Convention is a 'music, art, film and discursive event set in the decommissioned terminal at the former International Airport in Cork, Ireland.' The above quote is taken from the email sent to Bill Drummond asking him if he, in his capacity as the leader of The17, might take part in this event. Terminal Convention took place over a period of a week begining 17 March 2010. On Sunday, 14 November, Drummond spent the day walking around the perimeter of Cork Airport to explore the possibilities of it being be a suitable location for an interpretation of the score SURROUND.

This is almost one half of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.

This is the second half of one of the 40 graffiti being done as part of The17's Coast-to-Coast world tour. To view all graffiti done to date click here.