The format of the statement will differ according to what your master plan is. However, it is not a retrospective biography but a statement about your current focus. Not so much who you are but 'who' your work is or what you are /exploring finding out by creating it. Over time, you will find that your statement will change as your focus and ideas shift. It's also not about staying what you are achieving right now, but what you are creating over time. It takes ages and many experiments to get anywhere close to achieving. Here are some thoughts on that:
You may like to look back at your artist bio's from last year to get you started.
A useful structure is:
1 Focus - Who are you? What do you do?
2 Inspiration - what makes you want to create and what are you interested in?
3 Intent - what are you trying to achieve?
Here are some examples:
Nick Grondin
"Serena Korda was born 1979 lives and works in London. Through large-scale ensemble performances she reconsiders aspects of communion and tradition in our lives. Underpinning her practice is a desire to find and highlight ritual in the everyday, which is developed through encounters, conversations and the researching of abandoned histories. Audiences are often encouraged to participate at some point in her process creating collective experiences that often focus on the forgotten and overlooked."
Tai Shani's multidisciplinary practice revolves around experimental narrative texts, which alternate between familiar narrative tropes and structures and theoretical prose to explore the construction of subjectivity, excess and affect in relation to post-patriarchal realism. Shani’s on-going project, Dark Continent Productions, includes films and performances, forming a mythology that conceptualises the ‘epic’ to test the potentials of feminist politics and ideologies, a platform to imagine a post-patriarchal world.
Daniel O'Sullivan is a London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Member of Grumbling Fur, This Is Not This Heat, Mothlite, Laniakea, Ulver, Sunn O))), Guapo, Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, Miracle & Æthenor. O'Sullivan collages a wide range of musical disciplines from free-form improvisation to hallucinatory dreampop to extended drone and electric chamber music.
"Absolutely beautiful." - John Doran
What is V Ä L V Ē? Folk lullabies re-imagined by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Found-sound collages interrupted by Welsh language orations and sudden outbursts of fuzz bass. Gleaming synthpop workouts that collapse into swirling dreamscapes of sax and harp. Tiny sounds opening out onto the epic. Hi-tech and no-tech, deployed with equal measures of discipline and abandon. Carefully sculpted disorder. Uncanny geometries of noise and melody. Dizzy and gleeful and drawn in notebooks. That is V Ä L V Ē.
VÄLVĒ started out as the outlet for composer/performer Chlöe Herington’s compositional work using text and image as the starting point for scores. She collects sounds and diagrams, composing predominantly for bassoon, saxes, electronics and found sounds to explore synaesthetic memory and collective experience.
The band has morphed - from what originated as a solo project, performing mainly in art galleries, it grew to include Elen Evans on harp. After moving from galleries back into music venues, they were recently joined by Chlöe's Chrome Hoof comrade, Emma Sullivan on bass, microkorg and vocals. Live, the music traverses the realms of noise and improv into songs, punctuated with found sounds and eases into spacey soundscapes.
Highlights to date include having the honour of closing the Barn stage at Supernormal (2017) and, equally, being played by John Doran on BBC R3's Late Junction.
Press:
"It seems then that with V Ä L V Ē, Chlöe Herington wants to create a lingering series of moments and movements that will sit differently with everyone who encounters them. These sounds aren't designed to sit on top of memories or prop them up but rather they are precisely shaped to weave through the mind like blood through a capillary. A vital cog in the mechanics of many an ensemble over the years, Herington and company's V Ä L V Ē is a complex machine that is now almost ready to crash into our lives. Best ready our senses then." -Eoin Murphy (The Quietus) Full article HERE
"Much smitten by this. Discovered by a sheer and we should say, happy accident by way of a facebook posting, this is the rather delightfully transfixing ‘atmos #1’ by the London based collective V Ä L V Ē. A teaser track culled from a forthcoming EP by the name ‘#1 [the theosophical society]’ which i’m sure you’ll agree manages to craft something of a daydreaming wonderland imagining one suspects, a snoozing magic woodland adored with hypnotically shimmering bowed chimes and music boxes, all very serenely captivating and alluringly twinklesome not to mention playful and cutely becoming, in short, Reich for reception classes and something that ought to be on the radar of those whose listening loves stray fondly to the lulling tones of the Clangers and the Moomins." - https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/v-a-l-v-e/
Chlöe Herington is a Nottingham-born bassoonist, saxophonist, composer and sound maker, based in London.
Classically trained through an arts scholarship in Nottingham and then studying for a BMus (hons) at Goldsmiths College, University of London, she soon ventured out of the concert hall to seek new ways of creating music, suddenly finding herself in a very different kind of orchestra, Chrome Hoof, in 2000, with whom she stayed throughout their career.
VÄLVĒ is the outlet for her compositional work using text and image as the starting point for scores. Chlöe collects sounds and diagrams, composing predominantly for bassoon, saxes, electronics and found sounds to explore synaesthetic memory and collective experience.
Regular other playing is currently as a multi-instrumentalist with DnB/free jazz/noise trio Hirvikolari, space doom/disco collective Chrome Hoof, psychedelic 8-piece Knifeworld, Daniel O'Sullivan's Dream Lion Ensemble, in Lindsay Cooper Songbook with Chris Cutler, Dagmar Krause, Tim Hodgkingson and Yumi Hara, performing the music of Lindsay Cooper (Henry Cow/News From Babel) as well as occasional live performances with Teeth of the Sea and Daniel O'Sullivan's live band.
Chlöe has appeared on various recordings over the years by bands such as Guapo, Cathedral and Teeth of the Sea and has composed for and taken part in performance and sound art works by Turner prize winner Tai Shani, Serena Korda/Daniel O’Sullivan, Jonathan Baldock and Circumstance.
Alongside her work as a musician, she has been an educator for the last 20 years, currently teaching Music Performance and Production on the UAL courses at Westminster Kingsway College in Kings Cross, London.
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