In our fifth and final ‘Hangout on Air’, Miranda Sawyer is joined by artist Haroon Mirza, music producer Will Skeaping, record sleeve designer Leif Podhajsky and Tate’s Adrian Shaw for a lively discussion about music and art.
Miranda Sawyer is a journalist, writer and broadcaster covering a wide range of interests, including music, art, radio and theatre. She is currently a feature writer and radio critic for The Observer, and is a regular arts critic in print and on television and radio. Miranda is also on the board of Tate Members.
Haroon Mirza is a British artist who combines a variety of readymade and time based material to create audio compositions, which are often realised as site-specific installations. In doing so, Mirza complicates the distinctions between noise, sound and music, and alters the function and meaning of everyday objects and and socio-cultural constructs.
Adrian Shaw is part of Tate’s Learning department, working on the Young People’s Programme. He has been organising music events since the early 1990’s and introduced large scale music programming to Tate over 10 years ago. Now established as ‘Late at Tate’, these events often explore the boundaries between music, performance and art. Adrian is also a musician, and one half of the arts duo boyleANDshaw.
Will Skeaping is a creative consultant and music producer. Following a tour of duty at Google, he worked closely with rappers, authors and film makers as label manager at Lex Records, focusing on collaborations between artists and musicians. He is currently making an album uniting English folk music with vintage analogue synthesizers.
Leif Podhajsky is an Australian artist and graphic designer, who’s distinctive bright, surreal abstractions have featured on posters and album covers for musicians including Mount Kimbie, Tame Impala, Grimes, Lykki Li and Foals. Leif says his work “explores themes of connectedness, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic or altered experience.”
This is an archived version of the ‘Music meets Art’ Hangout On Air that took place on 9 December 2013 at Tate Britain: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/special-event/music-meets-art-hangout-on-air
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