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WORKSHOP: Chamber Cairn with Jack McNeill

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

Clarinettist / composer / maker Jack McNeill will lead a session exploring alternative arrangement and re-composition techniques for contemporary folk tunes. Using some of the material on his new album Chamber Cairn, participants will have the chance to work by ear or with notation, creating a short and semi-improvised ensemble version of the material. All… Continue reading WORKSHOP: Chamber Cairn with Jack McNeill

Free

CONCERT: Jack McNeill – Chamber Cairn launch concert

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

Cumbrian artist Jack McNeill launches his debut solo album Chamber Cairn at Full of Noises.   Experience Jack perform this unbelievable long-player in the intimate surroundings of Piel View House. Chamber Cairn in Jack's words: "I hear it as a kind of contemporary instrumental folk music for this landscape I call home, the continuation of… Continue reading CONCERT: Jack McNeill – Chamber Cairn launch concert

FILM: Films of place and landscape by Jessie Growden + Q&A

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

See a series of six short films by creative force Jessie Growden. Jessie's work explores place, landscape and personal experiences through playful and also structural approaches to recording and presenting images. Focusing on objects, both the sentimental and the throwaway, and the history and lives of things and places, Jessie looks to create work both… Continue reading FILM: Films of place and landscape by Jessie Growden + Q&A

£3

CONCERT: Aoire and John Hall – a Reverb night of text and music

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

Aoire is local musician and sound artist Shaun Blezard. He is joined by John Hall for a work in progress combination of text and music as part of the Artspace project Reverb. This event follows on from the book - Play Summat We Know book and the Play One Of Your Own exhibition at Barrow… Continue reading CONCERT: Aoire and John Hall – a Reverb night of text and music

£5

EXHIBITION: The Ear to the Estuary by RL Wilson

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

The Ear to the Estuary is a sound and vision exhibition in response to the Ravenglass estuary by artist RL Wilson. The work is the result of a research residency. It brings together a collection of art works and live artefacts in response to a site predominantly viewed through the modes of tourism and 'having… Continue reading EXHIBITION: The Ear to the Estuary by RL Wilson

FILM: Memoria

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

Tilda Swinton plays Jessica, a haunted British woman who wanders the streets of Colombian cities Bogota and Medellin, in suspended shock from increasingly loud bangs she hears each night, preventing her from sleeping. It’s an almost elemental sound, the search for the origin of which becomes her existential quest. See this extraordinary film at Full… Continue reading FILM: Memoria

£3

Concert: Lou Barnell / Amy Clark

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

Lou Barnell / Amy Clark Lou Barnell brings GINKO to Full of Noises.  GINKO is a Live Dream. She is part story, part rave, part embodied listening meditation. GINKO is a human/cyborg storyteller, inviting audiences into a rich web of wires, veins, roots and fleshly entanglements. A performance where moss, lichen, seed pods, seal-song, birdlife… Continue reading Concert: Lou Barnell / Amy Clark

£5

CONCERT: Death and Vanilla – ‘Whistle And I’ll Come To You’

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

From Scandanavia to South Cumbria - Death and Vanilla arrive at Full of Noises with a remarkable re-imagined live score to a cult film. 'Whistle And I'll Come to You' was a Jonathan Miller-adapted 1968 ghost story - originally part of BBC’s Omnibus series and featuring Michael Horden as a fussy professor who discovers an… Continue reading CONCERT: Death and Vanilla – ‘Whistle And I’ll Come To You’

5£

CONCERT: Bridget Hayden / Spaceship

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

Two artists from the same town head west to play at Piel View House. We are thrilled to welcome Bridget Hayden and Spaceship to the one bill. Bridget Hayden: Bridget Hayden is a Todmorden-based musician & rural conjurer noted for her participation with free-form noise rock acts such as Vibracathedral Orchestra, Schisms and Sunburned Hand… Continue reading CONCERT: Bridget Hayden / Spaceship

£5

CONCERT: Lonnie Holley / Gwenifer Raymond

Piel View House Abbey Rd, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

An amazing double bill of two remarkable artists at the cutting edge of music and sound. This November Full of Noises will welcome Lonnie Holley and Gwenifer Raymond to the intimate surroundings of Piel View House. Tickets are priced £15 / £10 concessions / with a small number of pay-what-you-can tickets available. Lonnie Holley Since… Continue reading CONCERT: Lonnie Holley / Gwenifer Raymond

£15