Fruit for the Apocalypse debuts with Soundscapes of East London :: Preview: July 16, 2010; 8:00 pm :: Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL :: Première: Secret Shoreditch Location (Secret Shoreditch Location linked to the Shoreditch Festival) :: July 18, 2010; 4:00 pm :: Soundscapes draws together an international group of Sound Artists and Choreographers to celebrate World Listening Day.

Soundscapes of East London is a music and dance event created by sixteen sound artists and choreographers exploring and responding to sounds heard in the East End of London. A major industrial intersection, goods and humans use East London’s busy roads to leave or enter the metropolis by land. The starting point for all exploration is therefore the sound of rubber on asphalt and the infernal internal combustion engine. What lies beneath this rumble are stories of travel, of sirens and heartbreak and crime; stories of nature, of farms and church bells and growing with nursery rhymes. And above it all the Lear-Jet whispers its hubris.

These immersive pieces will be performed in a secret underground venue made of concrete and brick where machines are as much dancer and musician as their human collaborators. The noise of the individual fights, is reconciled, drowned, victorious over the industrial din and chinks of light filter through the walls to remind us that there is indeed a future, but only when we accept the present.

World Listening Day: The World Listening Project in Chicago has chosen July the 18th, birthday of Acoustic Ecology movement founder R. Murray Schafer, as the date for an annual world wide event, World Listening Day. The purposes of World Listening Day are to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us and to raise awareness of individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography. This, the first World Listening Day, will be marked by the participation of over 30 organizations from the following countries USA Canada, UK, Italy, Germany, Greece, France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Australia, Nigeria, India, South Korea, China, and Japan. Fruit for the Apocalypse are the only London based organization to have been invited to curate a performance project for the first World Listening Day.

Fruit for the Apocalypse: are a new artist collective who focus on live art, theatre and music. Their principal curator is Robber Wagner, who, as Richard Wagner’s celebrity Newfoundland dog, is a fitting avatar for a curatorial praxis which aims to conquer the fin de siècle apocalyptic stasis to which post-capitalist art is susceptible.

For more information and press/ promotional tickets contact: Robber Wagner 07905 525 868 or protagonists@fruit-for-the-apocalypse.eu