History
This page contains a number of timelines detailing selected performances, installations, compositions, publications and music releases, from 1972.
Use the links below to navigate by category of work.
- Selected Music Concerts
- Selected Music Concerts Performed with Specially Created Installations
- Larger-scale Theatrical Performances
- Selected Installations
- Selected Sound and Music Compositions for Dance, Film, TV, Exhibitions
- Selected Discography
- Selected Publications
- Fellowships and Awards
- Selected Teachings, Talks, Workshops and Conferences
Selected Music Concerts
With Axel Dörner, Nicola Hein, David Rothenberg. Petersburg Art Space, Berlin.
With Axel Dörner, Nicola Hein,Gallery Zwitschermaschine, Berlin.
With Axel Dörner, Nicola Hein, Musikhochschule, Lubeck.
With John Butcher, Steve Beresford, Biennale Son, Sion, Switzerland
With dancer Suba Subramaniam at ‘Ice Station’, Royal Geographic Society, London.
With Steve Beresford, David Toop, Montreuil,, France.
With John Butcher, Terry Day. Iklectic London.
With David Toop and Steve Beresford at La Becque, Switzerland
With Steve Beresford, David Toop, Archipel Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
With Akio Suzuki’s Installation, Bonn City Sound Art Symposium
Solo, Bonn City Sound Art Symposium
With John Butcher, Lawrence Casserly, Iklektic London
With Emily Shapiro, Sue Lynch, Douglas Benford. One Hundred Years Gallery London
Solo: Unpredictable series Café OTO
Colourscape, Hugh Davies Memorial Concert. London
With John Butcher, Terry Day. Resonance Radio Benefit Café OTO
Solo, Resonance Radio Benefit. Iklektic, London
With John Butcher. Colourscape. Waddesdon Manor, Herts.
With Phil Minton. Café OTO at Ikon Café, Birmingham.
Solo. Memorial for ZEV. South London Gallery
With Alerations, (dep for Terry Day)Café OTO, London.
With Steve Beresford Café OTO,London
With Many, Mopomoso Festival, Vortex, London
With Uta Wasserman, John Butcher, Daad Galerie, Berlin, Germany
With Axel Dorner, Nicola Hein, Berlin
With Peter Cusack, Berlin
Alterations Festival Café OTO London
With Okyung Lee and John Butcher, ‘Unpredictable Series’, Café Oto, London
Solo, Café Oto, London
Solo, Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Solo, i’klectik, London
With David Toop, Mark Wastell, Terry Day, 100 Years Gallery, London
Solo and quartet, St. John’s, Bethnal Green, London
With many Fete Quaqua, Vortex Jazz Club, London
With Mike Cooper, Ants Records, Rome, Italy
With Steve Beresford, David Toop, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
With Paul Whity, live internet stream, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Reading
With The 49 Americans, Café Oto and Chisenhale Dance Space, London
With Tim Hill, The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton, Somerset
Solo, Sound As Medium Of Fine Arts In The 20th Century – ZKM Karlsruhe Germany
With Rhodri Davies, Oxford Museum Of Art, Oxford
With Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford, Les Atelier Claus, Brussels, Belgium
Solo, Art And Nature Festival, Sadali, Sardinia
With Lol Coxhill, Steve Beresford. Battersea Arts Centre, London
Solo. Tonic And Shift Festival, South Bank Centre, London
Solo. Kinetica Art Fair, London
Solo, with Film by David Buckland, Cape Farewell, British Council, Madrid, Spain
With Steve Beresford, Jony Marks, Boat Ting, London
Pestival Festival, with Robyn Hitchcock, Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre London
Solo Performance, Kings Place Festival London.
Performance “The Spinning Top” with Graham Coxon and The Power Acoustic Ensemble, Barbican Theatre, London.
Solo performance at Eden Project, Cornwall
Solo Performance, Cube Cinema Bristol.
Solo performance, Nobel Laureate event Natural History Museum, London
Performance with Steve Beresford, Al Doyle. Café Oto, London
Performance with Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, The Place, London
Performance with Jarvis Cocker, Cape Farewell at the Rome Film Festival, Italy
With Evan Parker, Mark Wastell, Graham Halliwell. No Limit Music festival, Stirling, Scotland,
With Nancy Ruffer, Lol Coxhill. Rays Jazz, London
With Many, Fete Quaqua. The Vortex, London
With Evan Parker, Graham Halliwell, Mark Wastell. Chisenhale Dance Space
Solo. Signal Festival, Sardinia, Italy
Solo. Worm, Rotterdam., Netherlands
Solo. Cape Farewell, Humanities Festival, Millenium Park, Chicago, USA
With Thomas Koner, Sprawl tour – Amsterdam, London, Bristol, Dublin
With Thomas Koner, Asmus Tichens, Victor Gama. Atlantic Waves, London
Solo, Museum of Science, Manchester
With Spaceheads. Mimi Festival, Marseille, France
Solo. Logos, Ghent, Belgium
With Spaceheads. The Shed, Yorkshire
Solo. Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With Spaceheads. Mimi Festival, Marseille, France
Solo. Mensa Festival, Munich, Germany
With Thomas Koner. Volksbuhne Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Solo. The Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland
Solo. Tramway Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland
With David Toop. Museum of Modern Art, Berne, Switzerland
With Adam Bowman and Nick Cowdrey. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Selected Music Concerts Performed with Specially Created Installations
Solo live Improvisation with Aeolian Harps Installed at State 51 in London and streamed live for International Conference on Improvisation, Ecology and Digital Technology, Dusseldorf, Germany
With Uta Wasserman John Butcher. DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
With dancer Anna Huber. DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
With Paul Witty, Angharad Davies. Cricoteka,Krakow, Poland
Solo. Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
With Alex Kolkowski. Stadtgarten, Cologne
With Alex Kolkowski. Festival of Experimental Music, Munich
With Aleks Kolkowski: The Harmonics of Wind, Cape Farewell. Science Museum London
Solo with live sound of Aeolian Devices installed on roof. ‘Gone with the Wind’, Raven Row Gallery, London
With John Butcher. South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
Solo. ‘The Magic Hour’, Botanical Gardens, Oxford
Solo. Cape Farewell, John Moores University Gallery,
Liverpool
With David Toop. Xtract Sculture Musicale, Podewil Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Solo. Festival De Arte Sonoro, Mexico
Solo. Mensa Festival, Munich, Germany
With David Toop. ICC Centre, Tokyo, Japan
With Thomas Koner. Volksbuhne, Theatre, Berlin, Germany
Solo. Klanghaus, Hamburg, Germany
With David Toop & Pete Lockett. Lanzarote Festival, Canary Islands
Performance with installations. ICA London with Thomas Koner, Peter Cusack. Alqemia
Solo. Art House, Dublin, Ireland
Solo.Tramway Theatre, Glasgow
Solo. Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland
With Edie Prevost, Robert Hampson. Podewil theatre, Berlin, Germany
With David Toop Museum of Modern Art, Berne, Switzerland
Solo. Museum of Modern Art, Marseille, France
With David Toop. Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London
Solo. Lento Festival, Dortmund, Germany
Solo. Kuba Gallery, Munster, Germany
With David Toop Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan
Solo. Apollo House, Eindhoven, Holland
Solo. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
With Hugh Davies. Air Gallery, London
Larger-scale Theatrical Performances
Long Player Day. 2019. With Aleks Kolkowski, Phil Minton. Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
Cosmic Ballet. 2012. Homage to sound poet Dom Sylvester Houédard. Directed and performed by Max Eastley with 10 other performers, South London Gallery
Journey to the North Pole. 1985. Music composed and directed by Michael Parsons. Stage direction and design by Pamela Marre and Max Eastley assisted by Peter Cusack. Performed by Clive Bell, Bryn Harris, Sylvia Hallett, Keith Rowe, Frankie Bell, Chris Newman, Stuart Jones, Dave Smith, Howard Skempton, John White
Ronald Ross. 1978. Composed by Max Eastley. Designed and performed by Max Eastley and Pamela Marre at the London Musicians’ Collective
Whirled Music
Performed at various times by Max Eastley, Paul Burwell, Steve Beresford, David Toop, Dave Holmes, Jamie Muir, Oren Ambarchi and Students from Edhea, Switzerland.
– Biennale Son, Sion, Switzerland 2023
– Archipel Festival, Geneva, Switzerland 2022
– Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 1988
– Hacienda, Manchester 1984
– Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool 1983
– Klaxon 3 Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands 1982
– Biennale, Paris, France 1982
– Waterloo Gallery, London 1982
– Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1980
– Zagreb Biennale, Croatioa 1979
– Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1979
– Arts Festival, Brighton 1979
– Roundhouse, London 1978
– Environmental Music Festival, London 1978
– London Musicians’ Collective 1978
Selected Installations
Commission by Hospital Rooms for permanent Installation in Beech Ward, Torbay Hospital, Devon and exhibition at The Craft Centre, Bovey Tracey, Devon
1st Aeolian Installation , State 51 Factory Roof. Live streamed from December 2020 to March 2021
Aeolian Harp and Sculptures, Perrotts Folly, Ikon Gallery Birmingham
Aeolian Installation, Fort Process
Installations, drawings and paintings. DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
Aeolian installation, Audiograft Festival, Oxford
Floating Aeolian installation, Kunstfestspiele, Herrenhausen Gardens, Hanover, Germany
Two Measures Of Time. Stadtgalerie, Sarbrucken
Installation in group show ‘The Art of Improvisers’, Café Oto, London
Installations for Visitazioni, International Festival of Sound Installations, Teatroinscatola, Rome, Italy
Installations for SkanuMezs Festival in Botanical Gardens Riga, Latvia
Aeolian Installation for Springhornhof Gallery and Landscape Art Centre, Neuenkirchen, Germany
Residency as Bonn City Sound Artist for 2014 – Aeolian installations in Botanical Gardens
Installation in Group exhibition: ‘Small Infinite’, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Installation for Fort Process festival, Newhaven, Sussex
‘Aeolian Circles’ – Installation in die Wasserspeicher, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany
Graphic scores exhibited at Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Installation for Audiograft Festival, Oxford
Aeolian Installation for ‘Audible Forces’ (Oxford Contemporary Music Network):
– Brighton
– Norfolk
– Salisbury
– London Greenwich
– Stockton
– Kendal
– Salford
Aeolian Installations, Templhof Airport, Berlin Germany
Aeolian installation with live broadcasts for Writtle Calling (Temporary Radio Station), Surrey
Touring Crafts Council Exhibition, Sound Matters – one installation in group show
Sound As Medium Of Fine Arts In The 20th Century – ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Aeolian installation for Audiograft Festival, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
Gallery installation, drawings and Aeolian Devices on the roof for Gone With The Wind, at Raven Row Gallery, London
Installation, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell Gallery
Aeolian installation, Oxford Botanical Gardens, Oxford
Installation for Cape Farewell, Tokyo, Japan and Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain
Kinetic Drawings: installations. Metropole Gallery, Folkstone
Ice Installation, and Sound Installation at The Eden Project, for Cape Farewell
Installation, Kinetika Gallery, London
Installation for Cape Farewell, Kampnagel Hamburg
Installations, New Vide, Haarlem, Nederlands
Installation for Cape Farewell, Natural History Museum, London
Installation and performance for Cape Farewell, John Moores university gallery, Liverpool
Installation for Debris Field, Bolton Museum
Installation with Rolf Gehlhaar. Kinetika Museum, London
Aeolian installation on University of Cork Gates
Installation for Sound Garden Festival, Oratory, Riga, Latvia
Ice installation for Cape Farewell, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Installation, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Installation, Klangräume der Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Installation, The Centre, Reading
Installation at Festival De Arte Sonoro, Mexico City, Mexico
Installation at ICC Centre Tokyo, Japan
Installations in group show, Sonic Boom, Hayward Gallery, London
Installation, Colchester University Gallery
Installations: group show: Another Strange Attractor, Morley Gallery, London
Installation, The Big Chill, Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset
Installations, group show: Strange Attractor, Morley Gallery, London
Permanent Wind Flute Sculpture, commissioned by Gardening Which. Capel Manor, Enfield
Installations, Intermedia Festival, Cork, Ireland
Permanent aeolian installations commissioned by Sculpture in Woodland. The Devils Glen, County Wicklow, Ireland
Aeolian installation. Ireland and Europe Sculpture event, Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, Ireland
Installation. Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, Ireland
Installation. Trinity Buoy Wharf, Docklands, London, Faraday Room
Installation. Kuba Gallery, Munster, Germany
Temporary aeolian installations. Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Aeolian installations. Artec Biennale, Nagoya, Japan
Installation. Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan
Installation. Electronic Music Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer, London
Installations in touring group exhibition: ’A Noise in Your Eye’ including Barbican, London, and Arnolfini galleries, Bristol
Installations: Echo, Images of Sound. Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Holland
Installations Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Installations Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Installations Spectro Arts Centre, Newcastle
Installations: ‘Six Times’, Serpentine Gallery, London. With performances by David Toop, Evan Parker, Peter Cusack
Installations Exe Gallery, Exeter, Devon.
Selected Sound and Music Compositions for Dance, Film, TV, Exhibitions
Sound for exhibition, Cape Farewell: Art and Climate Change, Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
Re-issue of ‘Clocks of the Midnight Hours’ on DVD by British Film Institute in Collection: Great Noises that Fill the Air
Music contributed to film: Small Axe – Education episode. Director Steve McQueen. First Broadcast BBC Dec
Music and surround sound for Launch of Nissan car, ‘Leaf’, Oslo Norway
High Arctic: Sound installation for United Visual Artists, Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Sound Installation for ‘Seed’ at The Eden Project, Cornwall
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Art And Climate Change, music for film by David Buckland
Sound for ‘Burning Ice’ for David Buckland , Cape Farewell, Metropole Gallery, Fokestone
Live music for Film by David Buckland, Hamburg Planetarium
Feature in: ‘Art from the Arctic’ Ch. 4 TV
‘Art from a Changing Arctic” Music for DVD. Dir. David Hinton distr. Cape Farewell. Shown on BBC TV
Music for ‘Plants and Ghosts’, choreographer Siobhan Davies For Siobhan Davies Dance Company. Touring
Music For ‘Radical Fashion’ exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Featured in ‘On The Edge ‘ – series on improvisation, Dir. Jeremy Marre, BBC2 TV
Music and sound for film ‘The Pool’ dir. Jayne Parker, Channel 4 TV
‘Clocks Of The Midnight Hours: The Work of Max Eastley’, Channel 4 TV and The Arts Council. Steel Bank Films
Featured in ‘Elements’, documentary on artists and materials. Tyne Tees Television
Music for film ‘Water Wrackets’, dir. Peter Greenaway
Featured on ‘Sounds Amazing’ dir Bill Fitzwater for Aquarius, London Weekend Television
Selected Discography
Re-release of Obscure record no.4, ‘New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments’ Dialgo Records
Angles of Inquiry, Confront. With John Butcher and Terry Day
“Line in the Sand” Domino. Collaboration with Hot Chip and Brian Eno
Divers Memories released by Scatter on Bandcamp. With Adam Bohman and Nick Couldry
‘The Mirror and the Lamp”, Limited edition Vinyl, Des Astres D’or
Whirled Music vinyl re-release on Black Truffle Records
The Map Is Not The Terrritory, with Fergus Kelly, Mark Wastell. CD Confront
Another Evening At Logos 1974 79 81 With the Logos Ensemble. Compilation CD Sublogos
Improvised Music, vol. 90, DVD, filmed at Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels. With Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill
Floating Signal, with Simon Balestrazzi, Alessandro Olla, Z’EV. CD. TiConZero
Max Eastley / A.R. Penck / Peter Kowald / Phil Minton. Video by Ebba Jahn. DVD
Max Eastley installation Recordings 1973-2008 2CD Paradigm Discs
A Life Saved By A Spider And Two Doves with Graham Halliwell, Evan Parker, Mark Wastell. CD Another Timbre
Dark Architecture with Rhodri Davies. CD. Another Timbre
Arctic, CD. Produced by Dave Hunt. Cape Farewell
Songs Of Transformation, with Martin Bates. CD Musica Maxima Magnetica
A Very Long Way From Anywhere Else, With Spaceheads. CD. Bip Hop
The Sound We Are Now, compilation, CD. Aphasia 022
Arc, CD Audio Editions, Liverpool John Moores University
Hydrophony For Dagon, with Michael Prime. CD. Absurd
Atlantic Waves, Compilation, CD. Wire Editions
Sweetly Doing Nothing, Tom Recchion, CD Schoolmap
Doll Creature, with David Toop. CD Bip Hop
Guarda Avanti with Mike Cooper, Steve Beresford, Viv Corringham, Lol Coxhill CD, Hipshot
The Time of the Ancient Astronaut, with Spaceheads, CD Bip Hop
Music For Radical Fashion, CD. Victoria and Albert Museum (compilation)
Day For night, with Peter Cusack, CD Paradigm
Spirit World, David Toop, CD Virgin
New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments, re-release of 1975 edition, CD Virgin
Interplay, with Hugh Davies, CD FMR
Modulation and Transformation CD compilations, Milleplateux
Resonance, LMC (compilation)
The Second Transmitter, with Burnt Friedman. Hyperion
Nonplace Urban Field, with Burnt Friedman. CD Compilation ,Nuf Said,
Beyond Isolationism, Virgin (compilation)
Buried Dreams, with David Toop, CD, Beyond
Beyond Isolationism, Virgin (compilation)
Compilation: At Close Quarters, These Records, with David Toop
Whirled Music. With Steve Beresford, Paul Burwell, David Toop. Quartz
Circadian Rhythm, Incus
New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments, Island
Selected Publications
A Hospital Rooms Project – Torbay Hospital. published by Hospital Rooms. October 2022
Drawing contributed to the book :Designing Sound Objects: Selected Articles from Experimental Musical Instruments, edited bySudhu Tewari and Bart Hopkin
“Line in the Sand” Domino. Coll
Publication: Bonn Hoeren Urban Sound Art 2010-2019, published by Beethovenstifftungaboration with Hot Chip and Brian Eno
Drawing for Ria Nakajima catalogue for her solo Exhibition. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Catalogue: Two Measures Of Time. Saarbrucken. Publisher Kerber June
Singhur Hoergalerie – ‘Sound Installation Art in Berlin 2007-14′
Included in book: “As Exciting As We Can Make It – Ikon in the 1980s” – publ. Ikon Gallery.
Interview, Wire Magazine 291
Drawings for ‘Recontrer John Cage’. Voix Editions
‘Not Necessarily English Music – Article with CD in Leonardo Magazine vol:11 MIT Press
ICC magazine Tokyo, Japan
Site of Sound: of Architecture and the Ear, Errant bodies press, Los Angeles
Rubberneck no.23, UK
Music Today no. 19 Japan
Bijutsu Techno no. 678 vol 45
Experimental Musical Instruments, vol 2, Los Angeles
Book: New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, Quartz Mirliton Press
Book: Sonurgy, Exeter University
Fellowships and Awards
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers
DAAD – Berliner Künstler Programm Award as Composer with residency in Berlin
Bonn City Sound Artist
AHRC Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Brookes University, UK – Aeolian Phenomena
NESTA for 3 expeditions to the Arctic as a Sound Artist /Composer with Cape Farewell.
Research Fellow at John Moores University, UK – Sound Art + Music
Second Prize in European Communities Architectural Ideas Competition. Exhibited Dublin & Paris
Arts Council of Great Britain – Jazz Busary to develop further a new instrument ‘The Arc’
Teaching Fellow in Sound Art at Exeter School of Art
Selected Teachings, Talks, Workshops and Conferences
Lecture at Lubeck School of Music, October
Workshops at Edhea, Sion, Switzerland
Screening of ‘Sounds Amazing’ and panel discussion. Café Oto
Workshops for Whirled Music, Edhea Art School, Valais, Switzerland
Whirled Music talk with Steve Beresford David Toop Café OTO
Talk on Aeolian Phenomena, Newhaven, Sussex
Lecture at Crisap department, London College of Communications
Lecture for Digital Music & Sound Arts department, Brighton University
Talk and workshop at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrucken, Germany
Talk on Aeolian Phenomena ‘Supernormal Festival’, Oxfordshire
Lecture and performance for Spaceunder, Xenakis Centre, Athens
Lecture and performance at Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
Key note speaker at Sound Art Curating Conference – Goldsmiths University and Courtauld Institute
Symposium at Zurich University of the Arts
Keynote speaker at Riga symposium for Sound Art: Transforming Space into Place
Landscape Quartet: Second Symposium – Keynote Speaker at University of Surrey on Aeolian Phenomena and Making Art works in the Landscape
Lecture for Ethnomusicology department Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford with David Toop
Talk for Berlin Sonic Places, Aeolian Installations, Templhof Airport, Berlin Germany
Lecture and performance with Tim Hill, The Brewhouse Arts Centre, Taunton
In From The Out Symposium, Talk on Aeolian Phenomena, Blank Space Gallery Manchester
David Toop and Max Eastley in conversation, Making Sound Objects, British Forum For Ethnomusicology, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Talk at Sounds Of Shadow Symposium, University Of Brighton
Talk and Solo, Museum of Science, Manchester.
Music Creator Project, Workshops with Schools and Special Needs Centres, North Yorkshire Moors. Oct – Nov. 2 x CDs released
Talk on climate change with Colin Challen MP, The Shed, Yorkshire
Talk for Cybersonica, Manchester