Electra develops its commissions in collaboration with a range of venues and partners. Following their initial exhibition or performance, all projects become available for international and national touring. The projects range from group exhibitions or individual installations to live performances and an archive which can take up residency at host venues.

Current projects available for touring are:

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Her Noise Archive

Project Type: An archive of publications, video recordings and sound recordings. The archive can be toured to art centres and galleries.

Space Requirements: a room of any size which can house shelving, wall mounted display materials, several monitors and audio equipment. Ideally the space would also have an area where meetings and talks can be held and a space for video projection.

Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in London in 2005, curated by Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset of Electra. The ambition of the project was to investigate music histories in relation to gender and to bring together a wide network of women artists who use sound as a medium. The first manifestation of Her Noise was an exhibition and a series of events comprising new commissions by Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Hayley Newman, Kaffe Matthews, Christina Kubisch, Emma Hedditch and Marina Rosenfeld.

Throughout the development of the project, the curators conducted dozens of interviews with artists, whilst also compiling sound recordings and printed materials which would eventually form the Her Noise Archive. The Her Noise Archive is a collection of over 60 videos, 300 audio recordings, 40 books and catalogues and 250 fanzines compiled during the development of this project.

The archive is accessible to the public for research purposes by appointment at the Electra office in Central London. It is also available for touring to international venues, in combination with a range of contextual events, talks and curated screenings using the content of the archive, which would be developed in collaboration with the host venue.

Much of the material was shot specifically for this project, and is uniquely available as part of this archive, so the Her Noise archive residencies are a unique way to access a wealth of material.

The archive toured to Burgen in Norway, November 2006. Event details here.

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'Reverse Karaoke', Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether

Project Type: An installation. A 'yurt' style tent painted by Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether on site. The yurt houses a low-fi rehearsal set up. The visitor is invited to record their own track along to a pre-recorded vocal track of Kim Gordon's voice, either alone or with other visitors. Using the instruments in the tent (guitar, bass, drums, vocal mics, percussion), this track is recorded live by a stereo recording microphone and captured on computer. The sound engineer, operating the recording desk which sits to the side of the tent, then burns two CD copies of this track, while the visitor(s) decorate two CD sleeves. One copy is left for the artists, and on display in a record box during the course of the exhibition, and the other the visitor can take away with them.

Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether have recorded a video which acts as a demonstration of how the tent is to be used by visitors. The video is to be displayed on a monitor positioned to one side of the tent, with several pairs of headphones.

Space Requirements: a large gallery space which can comfortably accomodate the 5m diameter and 3m height tent, recording desk, video monitor and workspace for visitors to decorate their records.

'Reverse Karaoke' by Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether was one of the five main Her Noise commissions, initially shown as part of the exhibition at South London Gallery in November/December 2005.

Full details available here.

Full technical rider.

Please note: The piece has since toured to Magasin, Grenoble as part of 'Replay: La Sphere Punk' and is currently stored in Grenoble. Transport from Grenoble must be arranged by the next venue.

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'Perfect Partner', Tony Oursler, Kim Gordon & Phil Morrison

Project Type: A live performance with a two screen synchronised video projection.

Space Requirements:

A new performance work by Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison (author of film Junebug). The piece consists of a newly commissioned film directed by the three authors with music performed live by Kim Gordon herself, Jim O'Rourke, Tim Barnes, DJ Olive and Ikue Mori.

Full press release.

Full technical rider.

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Sound And The 20th Century Avant Garde

Project Type: An illustrated lecture series over several days. The series can be tailored to suit a range of contexts from music festivals

Space Requirements: a lecture room with video projection facilities and equipment to play recordings (CD).

From the noises of Futurism and Dada to the Silence of John Cage, this course investigates key sonic moments of the 20th century avant-garde. Participants will learn about different ways in which artists have exploited the materiality of sound through lectures, listening sessions, screenings and artists' interviews with a particular emphasis on sound as a political tool, the confluence of sound, film and performance, ending with a look at contemporary plunderphonic outputs, effects of sampling and 'copyleft' strategies of the 'Creative Commons'.

This lecture series was initially developed with the Tate Modern as an eight evening course. The full outline of the initial course can be found here.

Due to its popularity the course has since been adapted to other contexts and has since been repeated at Tate Modern in a slightly different format, and has taken place at the Numusic Festival, Stavanger Norway in the Summer 2006.

The lecture series was developed and is taught by Lina Dzuverovic (Electra), Anne Hilde Neset (Electra and The Wire Magazine) and Rob Young (writer, journalist and Editor at Large at The Wire Magazine). In the past guests on the course have included Christian Marclay, Drew Daniel, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), Steven Vitiello.

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Her Noise Documentary

Project Type: Video documentary.

Authors: Electra with Emma Hedditch
Duration: 70 minutes

The video documents the development of Her Noise between 2001 and 2005. The 70 minute documentary features interviews with artists including Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, Peaches, Marina Rosenfeld, Kembra Pfhaler, Chicks On Speed, Else Marie Pade, Kaffe Matthews, Emma Hedditch, Christina Kubisch and the show's curators. The documentary features excerpts from live performances during the exhibition at South London Gallery by Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether and Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata) at the opening of Her Noise, Christina Carter, Heather Leigh Murray, Ana Da Silva (The Raincoats), Spider And The Webs, Partyline, Marina Rosenfeld's 'Emotional Orchestra' at Tate Modern, and footage compiled for the 'Men in Experimental Music' video made during the development of the Her Noise project by the curators and Kim Gordon, featuring Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke.

The documentary can be booked for screenings.

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For any touring enquiries please contact: ireneATelectra-productions.com