The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain

About Me

The loose collective, the Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain, was formed in 1999 or thereabouts. The first performance under the name SAAB was at the Sightsonic Digital Arts Festival in York, 2001. This is documented in the Sonic Arts Network publication 'Diffusion', March 2002. More recently, under the name 'Watson Bowers and Finch', we performed at Experimentica 2006, a performing arts festival staged by Chapter, Cardiff. After some deliberation, we chose to reinstate the SAAB moniker as this gives us more flexibility with personnel.

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Member Since: 2/5/2007
Band Website: watsonbowersandfinch.blogspot.com/
Band Members: Currently: Richard Bowers - Ian Watson - Nic Finch - John Ruddick -Previously: Tony Gage - Gwilly Edmondez.
Sounds Like: Darkness Visible - 21st October. SAAB presents a twelve-hour-long performance exploring the regions of Hell; the nine 'circles' of Dante's poem Inferno. These concentric circles, leading to the centre of Hell, shape the nine movements of Darkness Visible through which SAAB perform on acoustic instruments, radios, computers and electronics: a slow-moving tapestry of sound and vision. The extreme duration is set to test the limits of the performers' levels of endurance and concentration. [ Chapter Arts page.]Supporting Carla Bozulich at The Cube Cinema, Bristol, 7th June 2007.Experimentica, Chapter, Cardiff, 14th October 2006.... Here the action takes place on 2 projection screens and a series of monitors. Each of us have control of the images projected and displayed via switches or note values supplied from our instruments.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

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Posted by The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:53:00 PST

OIL II Piece by Richard Bowers playing at Futuresonic

Richard Bowers, SAAB founder member has a piece playing at Futuresonic festival in Manchester Details:Manchester Victoria Baths, Hathersage Road, Longsight, ManchesterFriday 11th - Sunday 13th May 200...
Posted by The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain on Tue, 08 May 2007 08:04:00 PST

Seasonally Affected

3"CDr 'The Crack in the Light' showcasing some of the photography and sound sketches that have inspired the video work for the next set of S>A>A>B performances. A sort of diary of the winter. Recorded...
Posted by The Sound of Aircraft Attacking Britain on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:06:00 PST