Biography

Norm Skipp is a NZ/UK composer/sonic artist, video artist and online editor/compositor currently based in Manchester, UK.

His wide and varied body of work often involves collaborating with other artists to create works such as ‘Safe In Sound’ and ‘Feast’ (with fellow composer Paul Booth and writer/director Simon Taylor); multileveled works blending sonic art, butoh, theatre, video art and instrumental performance.

International performances of his video and sound work have taken place in New Zealand, Australia, U.S.A., U.K., France and Canada as part of festivals such as NextWave, Soliton, Pulsefield, 34th New Zealand International Film Festival 2002,Festival Licences and Synthèse.

Works include:

‘Obsidian’; for Cor Anglais, Clarinet in A and Bassoon written for the Manchester Reed Trio

‘The Right to Remain Silent’; which was realised at CCMIX in Paris in early 2007

‘An Aversion to Light [2]’; a short dance film collaboration with choreographer Kristian Larsen and composer leyton

‘Beyond Skin’; a mixed media dance collaboration with choreographer Kathleen Skipp

‘Epithalamion’; a live–processing realisation of the poem by E. E. Cummings with actor Michael Hurst for the (09)03 Contemporary Music Festival 

In 2008 he began collaborating as _scape with his brother Rod Skipp to create various improvised live electronic works.

He is currently collaborating with Australia based dancer/choreographer Gabrielle New on a trilogy of works, ‘Creature’ the first of which was performed in Melbourne in November 2009, followed by the second in Brisbane in June 2010, and the third in development stage in November 2010 in Melbourne. A complete performance of ‘Creature’ is scheduled for September 2011.

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