NEWS July 2010

Stephen has just spent 3 months in the studio working with Kate Bush. More information about this project will be posted here when the details become available.

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Stephen recorded and mixed the debut album 'Dreamers' by Mattia De Luca with producer and guitarist Phil Palmer, as well as musicians Pino Palladino, Ian Thomas and Dave Hartley. The album was completed at Forward Studios in Grottaferrata, near Rome, Italy, in December 2009.

‘Metamorphoses in ‘A’ Minor’ is the latest filmed hybrid art installation by the UK-resident Canadian-British artist Sadia Sadia.

Sadia completed production on 'Metamorphoses' in Sydney, Australia in September 2009. More information as well as excerpts from the installation can now be found at the FILM MENU page.

left to right: Wakako Asano, Tom Gleeson and Sadia Sadia on the set, Sydney, Australia, September 2009.

Sadia was awarded a Studio 18 artists' residency, for international "contemporary visual artists pursuing an innovative practice in a professional capacity", at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in Melbourne, Australia, during August and September 2009.

On September 4th she opened her studio to the public, to exhibit the first of the ‘ghosts’ from her 2009 work-in-progress ‘Noise’. "I have been building the 'ghosts' of information delivery, the 'entities' of the digital age" says Sadia. 'Noise', to date, comprises four single-channel installation works with soundfields, which can be shown either individually or collectively.

Sadia was also the recipient of a Project Grant from the British Council (Aus) to support her filmed multi-channel installation work ‘Metamorphoses in A Minor’, which was the subject of her Artists Talk (Sadia in conversation with Amita Kirpalani) at Gertrude on Tuesday September 22nd 2009.

The Tricycle Theatre ("Britain's leading political theatre" The Guardian) has screened 'The Noon Gun' as part of their season 'The Great Game: Aspects of Afghanistan' May 1st-10th 2009.

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‘San Francisco Redux No. 1’ has been screened as part of the Belfort Film Festival, France, November 23rd - 30th 2008, as well as Film Mutations, Zagreb, Croatia, November 30th - Dec. 5th 2008.

We are also delighted to announce that, with the support of the British Council, ‘The Noon Gun’ has had its Pakistani premiere as part of the World Performing Arts Festival, November 13th - 23rd 2008, in Lahore, Pakistan.

The original, eponymously titled 'EQUA' album, originally released in 1996, is at last available through iTunes.

For those of you who are new to this work, please find more information here.

The album includes the bonus remix of 'Departure - Durban Poison Mix' by Tricky

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'San Francisco' and 'San Francisco:Redux No.1' have been screened at the Lussas Doc Film Festival 'Etats Generaux du Film Documentaire' in France on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st August 2008 as part of the programme 'On the Subject of Regrettable Searching - Body to Body, the Filmed Body' .

Sadia and Stephen are delighted to announce the world premiere of four new short films on Friday June 27th 2008 at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris.

La Cinémathèque is situated in Paris, and is housed in a building designed by Frank Gehry. It is home to the largest film archive in the world and has been described by Martin Scorcese as the "spiritual home of filmmakers worldwide".

Stephen spent 2007 recording and mixing in Italy, India and the US. In India he had the pleasure of recording some of India's top musicians at Yash Raj Film Studios in Mumbai, including Louiz Banks, Sheldon Shaun D'Silva, Niladri Kumar, and percussion maestro Sivamani, for an album by Mongolian singer-songwriter Nominjin. 

Stephen began 2008 by mixing an album at his studio in Wiltshire for singer-songwriter Clark Datchler, and remastering the titles for the Chimera Archives digital releases as well.

In September 2008 he mixed the 3 CD set of Howard Jones' 25th Anniversary concert, recorded at the indigO2 in London. Stephen is currently authoring the DVD for this concert.

In December 2008 he has been working with Rupert Hine on the new Nolwenn Leroy album.

2009 has seen Stephen preparing compositions and soundscapes for Sadia's current installations, along with mixing and designing the sound for a feature film.

'The Noon Gun' was screened by Tolo TV, the most popular liberal TV station in Kabul, Afghanistan, and was also screened by the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (the only service to broadcast inside the Bhutanese border) on July 26, 27 and 28, 2006.

It was shortlisted, along with 6 other films, for The Satyajit Ray Foundation Short Film Competition in London. Extracts from the entries were screened at the Award Ceremony held in the David Lean Room of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), Piccadilly, London on the afternoon of Sunday 23rd April 2006.

'The Noon Gun' had its world premiere at the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival in 2004. It played to a packed theatre and was a resounding success. It was also shown at the 'Bite The Mango' Film Festival at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, September 2004. In 2005 it featured as part of 'Films From The South' Festival in Oslo, Norway.

'The Noon Gun' Quicktime trailer

The Sydney Dance Company has two works in their permanent repertoire ('Unwitting Sight' & 'Cradle Song') choreographed by Wakako Asano to music by S Sadia / S Tayler (EQUA). The photographs are from 'Cradle Song' (top) and 'Unwitting Sight' (bottom)

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Sadia is working on two new installation pieces, 'Twelve Short Films About Living and Dying', for which she has been shooting in Cambodia, as well as the second installment of the 'Memory of Water' trilogy.

'the Memory of Water', a video installation by S Sadia, has been acquired by ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) to form part of its permanent collection of exemplary works by Australian and international artists.-- It featured in the show 'PROOF: The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes', which ran until 13th February 2005. For more information, click on link above....

PROOF/ACMI QuickTime movie