What is a residency?

A time of reflection for a creative mind, away from everyday obligations.

 

What does Samarbeta mean?

To collaborate, to cooperate, to pull together

 

 

Samarbeta is a project born from the minds of Emma Thompson (Fat Out till you Pass out) and Rivca Burns (Sounds from the Other City). Both Emma and Rivca have worked together at Islington Mill for over 3 years and worked alongside many artists via Islington Mill’s residency program. It has however led them to question why a specific music residency doesn’t exist, and thus Samarbeta was born in late 2013.

 

As is proved through past artists-in-residence, a prolonged period of space and time away from everyday constraints and obligations that are offered as part of a residency program can be so beneficial to a creative mind and so we believe that musicians should be offered this experience as well.

 

The Samarbeta residency program is an innovative way to progress and encourage the production of new and adventurous music and also encourages musicians to come together and collaborate in a way that without the residency may never have arisen before.  

 

The outcome of the residency is entirely flexible, it could be a new work, an identity, a visual project, the discovery of a new instrument, a collaboration, a live show and everything in between.

 

Residencies so far:

 

SBR001: Charles Hayward presents Anonymous Bash

SBR002: Swaggerjack

SBR003: Ex Easter Island Head & BBC Philharmonic Ensemble

SBR004: Sam Weaver

SBR005: Lydia Lunch

SBR006: Ex Easter Island Head

SBR007: David Mclean & Phil Carney : Crime Scene

SBR008: Thurston Moore

SBR009: Stealing Sheep

 

 

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