Viv Corringham
Biography
Viv Corringham is a British vocalist, composer and sound artist, currently based in Minnesota, USA, who has worked internationally since the early 1980s. Her work includes music performances, audio installations and soundwalks. She is interested in exploring people’s special relationship with familiar places and how that links to an interior landscape of personal history, memory and association.
Her educational background and awards include an MA Sonic Art with Distinction from Middlesex University, London, England and a BA Theatre Design from Nottingham Trent University, England. She is a certified teacher of Deep Listening, having studied with composer Pauline Oliveros.
She is a 2006 McKnight Composer Fellow. Other grants and awards have come from Jerome Meet the Composer, the English and Irish Arts Councils, Jazz Services, Millennium Funding, London Arts Board, Chisenhale Awards, Creative Partnerships and Awards for All.
Performances at Music and Sound festivals
Spark Festival of Electronic Music – Minneapolis, MN 2009
A Fall New Music Cabaret - Studio Z, St Paul, MN 2009
Minnesota-sur- Seine – St Paul, MN 2008
2nd Annual Headphone Festival – Rochester, MN 2007
Women in New Music Festival – Cal State, Fullerton, CA 2007
Spark Festival of Electronic Music – Minneapolis, MN 2007
Deep Listening Convergence (with Pauline Oliveros) - Concert Series, NY 2007
1st Annual Headphone Festival – Rochester, MN 2006
Women’s Electro-acoustic Listening Room - Cal State, Fullerton, CA 2006
Soundworks - Cork, Ireland 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007
Strange Strolls - Fremantle, Australia 2005,
Heritage Festival - Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland 2005
Colourscape Music Festival - UK 2003, 2004 & 2005,
Drift Sound Art Festival - Scotland 2004,
Placard Headphone Festival - London, UK 2004,
6000 Chairs Festival of Live Art - London, UK 2004,
Hearing Place Sound Art Festival - Melbourne, Australia 2003,
San Francisco Alt - 2003,
Freedom of the City Improvised Music Festival - London, UK 2003,
London International Festival of Theatre - 2003.
Exhibitions and Installations
Shadow-walks: Toronto Edition - Sound Travels, Festival of Sound Art, Toronto, Canada 2009
At the End of the Road - Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal 2009
Sound Replaced - Rochester Art Center, MN 2009
The Headphones Show - Abrons Art Center, New York City 2008
At the End of the Road & Always the Water – Meridian Gallery, San Francisco 2008
Visibility Project – Galata Perform, Istanbul, Turkey 2008
Nodar Shadow-walks – Binaural Artist Residency, Nodar, Portugal 2008,
Sound Replaced – MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2007
Shadow-walks in Grand Marais – Grand Marais Art Colony, MN 2007
Shadow-walks – Rochester Art Center, MN 2006
Sounding the Town - Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland 2006
Shadow-walks - Sound 323, London, UK 2005
Shadow-walks in Cobh – Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland 2005
Shadow-walks in Cork – Art Trail Soundworks Festival, Cork, Ireland 2005
Pipes Have Ears – 6000 Chairs Live Art Festival, London, UK 2004
Published articles
Skywalks, Playing With Words, CRISAP\RGAP, UK 2008
Shadow-walks, Sound and Anthropology Website, UK 2007
Urban Song Paths: Place Resounding, Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press, UK 2006
Singing-Walking-Listening, For Those Who Have Ears, Art Trail, Ireland 2005
Vocal Strolls, Musicworks magazine #83, Canada 2003
Lectures and Presentations
Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Toronto, Canada, 2009 - lecture
Documente-Se!, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal 2009 - lecture
International Society for Improvised Music Conference, 2007 & 2008 – lecture/ performance
Sculpture Class, MCAD, US, 2008 – lecture,
AIS2 Intersections Conference, University of Regina, Canada, 2007 – lecture
Women in New Music Festival, Cal State University, US, 2007 – lecture/ performance
Grand Marais Art Colony, US, 2007 – artist talk
Tuesday Salon, American Composers Forum, Minneapolis, US, 2007 – artist talk
Sound Art Class, University of Minnesota, US, 2007 – lecture
Sound and Anthropology Conference, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK, 2006 – lecture
Sound and Place Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, 2005 - lecture
Broadcasts
Radio and TV broadcasts include Vocal Strolls, a solo project in which she sang live with the London soundscape weekly on London Resonance fm, 2003, British BBC Radio 3’s Mixing It, 2005, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, 2005, and British Channel 4 TV’s Richard and Judy Show, 2004. In the US, she was a featured guest on London Underground, broadcast on WFMU and WMSE radio stations. Her music and soundworks have been played frequently in Europe and the US.
Shadow-walks were broadcast weekly on London Resonance fm, 2005, and on WFHB radio in Indiana, 2005. Minnesota Public Radio broadcast a feature on a local shopping mall Shadow-walk in March 2005: http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/03/28_baxtera_corringham/
An interview with Viv Corringham is available as a Talking Walking podcast.
Photographs
Collaborations in the realm of experimental and improvised music include Pauline Oliveros, Milo Fine, Didier Petit, Gino Robair, Mike Cooper, Torsten Muller, Pat Thomas, Eddie Prevost, Peter Cusack, Ansuman Biswas, Lawrence Casserley, Maggie Nicols, Lol Coxhill and Paul Burwell. She has also collaborated with visual artists, filmmakers and dancers.
As a workshop leader for community groups, activities include a site-specific sound project in which 8-year-old students investigated listening through recording the sounds of their London school, UK residencies with Colourscape, the multi-chambered walk-in sculpture of colour and light, in which improvisations and electronic soundscapes were created with young people, and Deep Listening workshops held in Ireland, UK and US for children, adults and seniors to encourage awareness of everyday sounds and the benefits of active listening.
