Andy Frizell

United Kingdom
research interests: composer-performer
affiliation: University of Liverpool
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Andy is a composer and musician with a background in theatre, dance and multi-disciplinary performance work. He has worked extensively with and for the human voice creating scores for mass and solo voices and also creating music from spoken word and sung recordings as well as other found sounds. He has made performance work with, among others, Mischief La Bas, John Fox, Bremen Shakespeare Company, The Liverpool Lantern Company, Kaboodle, Cocoloco, and Walk the Plank and made music, live or recorded, with Viv Stanshall, Kevin Ayers, Super Furry Animals, Neil Innes, The Magic Band, Les Reines Prochaines, The Coral, Jimmy Carl Black, John Halsey and Shack.

He currently lectures in performance and composition at the University of Liverpool.

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  • 31 Days Old - Performance, Family and Ethics (2020) author(s): Sarah Black, Andy Frizell published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    In this exposition, Dr Sarah Black-Frizell and Andy Frizell, discuss the performance installation 31 Days Old (2016). This involved a full-scale installation performance in Sarah and Andy’s family home, in collaboration with Sarah (43) her mother (age 66), her auntie (age 54) and her daughter (age 3). This project highlights domestic photography as a strategic trigger for personal and family narratives and memory work. The work consists of film, live performance and original music and soundscapes. The main part of the exposition focuses on the role of the mother-artist, who initiates an art-making practice with her family and considers the ethical implications that can arise. Sarah begins this exposition by situating her mother art practice and ‘mother ethics’, which guides and activates a theoretical and practical approach to the ethical questions arising when developing a research and artistic practice with family. Andy, a composer, shares his audio recording techniques in the home, and the ways he works sensitively with family narratives to create original sound scores.
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