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Brown Sierra playing at the book launch of Playing with Words: the spoken word in artistic practice, edited by Cathy Lane, at the Small Publishers Fair on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th October. David Toop, Ansuman Biswas and Nye Parry will be giving readings and performances from the book on the Saturday between 1 and 1.30pm. We will be at the fair the whole time with RGAP, our co publishers. Playing with Words will be available at a special introductory price along with our other publication Autumn Leaves. Entrance is free and takes place at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
Playing With Words Cathy Lane. A new edited book which will explore some of the ways in which composers and artists are using and have used words, especially the spoken word, as the primary material in their work. The book will concentrate on the kinds of creative play to be found in different sound based genres such as electro acoustic composition, text sound composition, and sound poetry, but it will to some extent reflect practices in other disciplines of such as digital arts, electronic concrete and experimental poetry, performance art and fine art. Included in this book is A Culture Of Silence by Brownsierra, it was made by a process of cut ups taken from literary sources, and also contains a glossary compiled from a variety of text books. It was first published in Noisegate Issue 9 and then published as a limited edition artist publication under the same name. Later rendered in letraset and ink as series of paintings exhibited at Total Asbo

Brownsierra sound track for Shaun Caton : Experimenta 08 Saturday, 18 October 2008 Chapter Cardiff

Come to Pass is a monumental shamanic performance about a non-verbal language, a primordial ritual invoking dream signs and symbolic patterns
born from trance.

Shaun Caton is a veteran of the long duration ritual performance. Since the 1980s he has created over 220 live actions worldwide

Thallasocracy Andrew King - Brownsierra
CD Release May 2008

English folk song from Andrew King. Accompanied with electronic treatments by BrownSierra.

Brighton Expo 4-6 July 2008 Presented by Sonic Arts and Radio Reverb 97.2 fmIn association with Earshot and Arika. This weekend of performance,
exhibition and broadcast will take place across a variety of physical and virtual spaces. The weekend aims to highlight the broadcast possible
range of approaches and thinking that surrounds the sonic arts. Expo aims to present serious, experimental and challenging work in a playful,
open and inclusive context, encouraging the public, both local and national, to have direct experience of and access to the most radical and
exciting sound work 8.30-12.30 Cafe space, Brighton Uni-Fantastical Reality Radio Show launch.

8.30-12.30 Cafe space Brighton Uni -Fantastical Reality Radio Show

Jay Hammond and fern Edwards (20) Babygrand (20) Brown Sierra (20) Halal Kebab Hut (20) London Concrete (20) DJ Scotch Egg (30)

Bookartbookshop 11 July 2008 Artists Books and Small press publications. 17 Pitfield Street London N1 T:0207 608 1333
Brownsierra Present International Litter Exchange
Collage meets cut ups meets bookbinding. Hand made books postcards and multiples. Finding and reusing discarded and disused materials.
We have developed an approach to modify adapt and transform things that already exist through a process of finding and reusing discarded and
disused materials, adapting often changing original functions to take on a new life or existence.

Publish and Be Damned 03 August 2008 A one day publishing fair and archive surveying an abundance of independent publications, publish and be
damned demonstrates individual experimental approaches to making and distributing the works of artists, writers and musicians outside the
commercial mainstream through publishing fairs, a touring archive and occasional events.
This year four corners books will be publishing a handbook for publish and be damned - a record of the days events as well as a snapshot of
self publishing. Each publish and be damned participant will be featured on a separate page with an image from one of their publications.
For further information please see www.publishandbedamned.org
at the Rochelle School in Shoreditch, east London

Telephone Gallery October 2008
Telephone is a curatorial project by Claire Davis and Sam Gathercole. It proposes that a telephone be used as a way of exhibiting artworks
(sound works) ; the idea being that a telephone number becomes a gallery that is directly accessible from any telephone in the world.
The 'viewer' may call the number form anywhere, and hear the work at anytime.
Telephone is, simultaneously, an international project of considerable ambition, and a very simple, direct project using available and modest
facilities. It is an entirely non commercial project that comes from an interest in sound work and its presentation.
Telephone will operate from London, but is in many ways placeless.
The work will be accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at a standard (land line) call rate. There will be only one line, so that any one
moment, only one caller will be able to access the work A standard digital answering machine will be used for telephone. This will mean that
the quality of the recording will be basic , and will limit the length of any single work to two minutes maximum. The work will be recorded
directly into the machine. Where possible the machine will be taken to the participating artist for the recording of work, when this is not
possible, other arrangements will be made to the satisfaction of the artist. The following artists have been approached and invited to
participate in telephone. Brownsierra Janet Cardiff Jenny Holzer Patrick Ward

For Telephone Gallery Brownsierra will present Recordings from Public Telephone Boxes.

Mapping our local area using public telephone boxes, draw up a map.The telephone becomes the recording device
Walk to each in turn, put in minimum amount of money for a call, stick the receiver out the door of the telephone booth, phone home record
onto answer phone.