Red Sand - Arts Management

Hive Twilight City was a series of four high profile audiovisual performances produced by the Hive Collective over the course of 2008 in tribute to a potentially overlooked part of Liverpool's essence: its industrial and business buildings, its bricks and plate glass; the iconic and the mundane, the city centre and the suburb.

red sand worked with the Hive Collective on project co-ordination and event management, liaising with venues, artists and statutory bodies.

Hive Twilight City 1: industry versioned

Static Gallery, Liverpool - Friday 7 March

Line-up: Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit and Philip Jeck; The Bug feat. Warrior Queen; Shackleton: Mugstar

Hive Twiglight City 2: shopping remixed

Saturday 15 March

St John's Centre - Noise Club live interactive sound performance

FACT -Machinefabriek; Matthew Fairclough and Kathy Hinde

Hive Twilight City 3; The spectacular suburb

Saturday 13 September @ the Bluecoat

The Hive Collective has commissioned two of the world's most accomplished sonic pioneers, Matthew Herbert and Chris Watson, to collaborate on a unique composition constructed entirely out of recordings from Crosby Beach - the site of Antony Gormley's Another Place installation.
A one-off event at a specially prepared performance space within the Bluecoat will see Watson explore Another Place through a series of source recordings, followed by Herbert's presentation of a brand new musical composition based on those recordings.
By considering what these impassive iron men 'hear' as they gaze on the changing seascape and a changing Liverpool, the audience will, in turn, be encouraged to reimagine both the installation and the surrounding area, as well as reflect on how definitions of place vary, yet hold a truth, as they pass from person to person.
Challenging yet accessible, the event aims both to introduce new audiences to music composed from field recordings, as well as explore questions relating to what can constitute 'music' in a city dominated by more traditional definitions of authenticity.

Hive Twilight City 4: Uncanny Space
Saturday 6 December 2008

As a new city slowly emerges from amidst the dust and clatter of construction, Hive's final Twilight City event - Uncanny Space - simultaneously sounds an elegy to Liverpool's past whilst heralding its future through a celebration of the best in contemporary electronica and techno. Held in one of the city's most exciting venues, each performance will revel in the endless possibilities of electronic music to move us from the past to the future.

Featuring live performances from:

Alva Noto
Uusitalo (Vladislav Delay)
Donnacha Costello (23:00)

The Kazimier
4-5 Wolstenholme Square
Liverpool L1 4JJ

For more information visit the Hive Collective website.