Friday Late at David Bowie Exhibition at Victoria & Albert Musem with Martyn Ware

  

Alexis and Martyn Ware will be presenting their music on ‘The Career-Sonification of David Bowie’ on the evening of Friday 26th April at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as part of their record-breaking David Bowie Exhibition. Martyn is a pioneer of electronic music in the UK – a founding member of Heaven 17 and the Human League. He has also worked as a record producer, notably helping to revitalise Tina Turner’s career in 1983 with “Let’s Stay Together” and producing Erasure’s I Say I Say I Say album in 1994. More recently, he has collaborated with Vince Clarke (as The Clarke & Ware Experiment). Using text emotion analysis tools, Alexis has discovered cycles of patterns in Bowie’s lyrics which he has used to algoritmically generate a hyper-speed piano composition. Martyn has analyzed the musical features of Bowie’s work’s progression over the years and will be turning these data into new sounds. This and other career sonifications will be presented at the V&A on the Friday evening from 1830-2130 in the Design Studio at the V&A Sackler Centre. It will be part of the Bowie Weekender which also features Paul Morely,Bob Solly, Jonathan Barnbrook, Holly Johnson, and Charles Shaar Murray.