Half Memory

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Tyneside Cinema Pixel Palace North East musicians Warm Digits and Richard Dawson will present a unique performance inspired by museum and archive collections live at Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema on Sunday 28 April 2013. The tracks will also be broadcast between 26 January and 1 February 2013 on basic.fm, Tyneside Cinema’s online radio project as part of its digital arts programme Pixel Palace, and an extended programme of recordings will be broadcast in March ahead of the live performance. Warm Digits have created a film and soundtrack inspired by line drawings and plans from a 1970s civic engineering project while Richard Dawson took his inspiration for a new album from photographs, letters, newspaper cuttings and illustrations from museum and archive collections. The musicians explored the collections of records in Tyne & Wear Archives as well as photographs held in the collection of Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens. The as yet un-named album and tracks will be broadcast for the first time between 26 January and 1 February on basic.fm before being performed live at a special one-off performance at the Tyneside Cinema on 28 April which will mark the release of the CD by Richard Dawson and DVD by Warm Digits. Tickets for the performance will go on sale at the start of December and will be available in person from the Tyneside Cinema Box Office, by telephone on 0845 217 9909 or online from www.tynesidecinema.co.uk . Half Memory is a project devised by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in partnership with Tusk Music and Tyneside Cinema’s digital arts programme, Pixel Palace.