Friday 15 to Sunday 24 July: Middleton Hall, centre:mk
Working in a retail environment for the very first time, digital artist Miguel Chevalier is known for creating work for large spaces and monumental buildings.
For IF: 2016, Artist-in-Residence Chevalier has created an extraordinary interactive carpet of light and colour for the expansive space of Middleton Hall.
With patterns inspired by our iconic city-scape, Magic Carpets 2016’s patterns and colours swirl and shapeshift.
The Festival has also commissioned sonic artist Ray Lee to create a new mobile sound work for Magic Carpets 2016.
People walking into the installation are given a spherical ‘sound sphere’ to carry. Each sphere makes a unique sound, changing in reaction to the carpet’s patterns, other nearby spheres and the warmth of the explorer’s hands.
Middleton Hall, centre:mk
Friday 15 - Sunday 24 July, 11am - 6pm (5pm on Sundays); late night opening: Thursday, July 24 to 8pm
Tickets £3, Under 16s £2, Family of 4 (max 2 adults) £8
> Also recommended: The Stables Acoustic Stage presents music from MK-based multi-instrumentalist Harrison Bond, who is taking a nice turn with some sterling tracks currently taking our attention.
There's a three track EP on his website (see www.harrisonbondofficial.com ) and more recordings in the pipeline.
This event is an opportunity for him to sucker you with a stripped back acoustic set, which will mix original material with some of his favourite covers.
Harrison has been following in the footsteps of some of his most favourite artists too, with a recent date at Nambucca on London's Holloway Road, which has also hosted dated by Wolf Alice and The Wombats.
Who knows where Bond will be next?
Actually, we do know - our boy on the boil will play The Troubadour at Earls Court on July 21 and 93 Feet East in Shoreditch on July 29.
By all means support him then, but don't miss him on the home turf.
