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Andrew Beck
beck@raya.org.uk
Andrew is Raya's resident archaeologist of vinyl
spinning rare 45s and 12s from 40 years of underground music from
northern soul, ska and reggae to jazz, electro and old school jungle.
He
also puts together the raya slide shows featuring a heady mix of pop
culture and politics in a celebration of love, life and resistance. He
has played and showed his work at the critically acclaimed
'whistlebump'
night, the enchanted garden festival, the cultures of resistance
/
reclaim the streets festival, the shoreditch electricity showrooms,
with
purple banana at the Raha mixed media nights and at his own highly
rated
'mono-media' soul boy and scooter kid weekly in south London. He also
works with guest artists to plan and develop the ever-changing raya
visual show.
Jeff Brown
jeff@raya.org.uk
Jeff studied at the University of Westminster and
gained
a B.A.Honours Degree in Mixed Media Arts and a Masters Degree in Design
and Media Arts. He works mainly in video and occasionally branches out
into photography. In December 1997 he was involved with a group of
International artists who put on a 4 day event at the Colosseum theatre
in Dalston, London. This was followed with a group exhibition of mixed
media artists at St Pancras Chambers in June 1998. He has shown and
spoken about his work at the ICA in London. Jeff has been a regular
contributer to Raya events for the last 3 years. He is often to be
found
with his video camera on the streets documenting collective celebration
and struggle providing footage for the groups multi-media events.
During
the week he can be found teaching video production and IT skills to
17/18 year olds within further education.
Simon Green
simon@raya.org.uk
Simon is Raya's resident headancing dj. Spinning contemporary and
historical electronica, soul, funk and all points in between, he's
happiest playing to an open-minded crowd with an ear on the
interesting.
He has played at the enchanted garden festival, the cultures of
resistance / reclaim the streets festival, the institute of
contemporary
arts, the shoreditch electricity showrooms, the brick lane festival,
with purple banana at the Raha mixed media nights and at the highly
respected Triology underground parties. He has performed at
many international venues including taipei (taiwan), rotterdam
(holland), barcelona (spain), krakow
(poland) and naxos (greece). Simon is a skillful vj (visual jockey),
video film maker and photographer. He co-ordinates most of Raya's
education workshops often in partnership with local authority youth
groups and education services. These workshops can include dj'ing,
video, multi-media, photography, graphic design, marketing,
stage management, event planning and communications. He also
works relentlessly behind the scenes organising and co-ordinating our
own events as well as networking and searching for fresh
projects on behalf of the crew.
Nick Hillel and Marc
Silver
nichillel@onetel.net.uk
marcsilver@onetel.net.uk
nick hillel and marc silver have been collaborating together since the
summer of 1999. starting out in television documentaries, they
conceived, shot, directed and edited 3 x 50min documentaries for
channel
4 and a 40 min documentary for BBC2 news and current affairs in 2000.
Whilst these films were in production marc and nick were also
running experimental and socially aware / political film nights and
projecting visuals in art galleries, clubs and festivals around the UK.
This has led to music videos, world tours, DVD¹s and
installations with artists as diverse as michael nyman, cirque du
soleil, nitin sawhney and courtney pine.
Dave Parkin
dave@raya.org.uk
A backroom Raya engineer, who also
looks after music archives of raya DJ sets and is currently figuring
out how to post-produce rayavision film
projects. Dave is not a DJ (if he were a musician he would play good
notes in semi-random order) but likes to play records of "top drawer
eclecticism and
exploratory music",
persuaded recently to
take to the decks at Raya events after years of resistance.
Chico Andrew Stockwell
chicoartuk@yahoo.com
Chico has been working with Raya since 2001. A graduate of The
University of Westminster, his documentary work has been shown at the
Latin American Film Festival in London, and The ICA. Has made work for
Theatre de Complicite and The RSC in Stratford including a film
installation shown at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.
Started doing Club visuals with Super 8 and 16mm as well as backdrops
in various obscure venues around London. Worked and exhibited with
many Artists and DJ’s in London and Brazil including Groove Tec in Rio
de Janeiro.
Armand Terruli
armand@raya.org.uk
Armand has been involved creatively in the club/party scene since the
early eighties starting with Clubterranean in Leeds (bastard
grandfather
of the Medicine Bar) and the legendary Head club in Camden, laying down
psychedelic visuals to early gigs from the likes of Stereolab and
Gallon
Drunk, and putting on lush house parties to drool over. Realising there
was more to life than a Solar 250, he lost himself to architecture and
exhibition design, learning how to create amazing spaces and
controlling emotions through form and light., culminating with
galleries at the National Maritime Museum, an exhibition at the Lisbon
Expo 1998 and the Faith Zone at the Dome. Raya invited Armand to show
his particular blend of global timelapsed cine outings at the ICA in
1998 and the creative/artistic association was made. With partner Lisa,
Raya Design and Architecture was formed in 1999 to cement their passion
for 3D design and give the Raya co-operative an additional outlet. The
design and implementation of the Club Tent and its environs at Big
Chill Enchanted Garden 1999 was an early highlight. Nowadays, Armand
concentrates on VJing and sharing his passion for visuals with his
firstborn Sonny who makes regular appearances on the silver screen.
Mark Williams
mark@raya.org.uk
Mark looks after raya press releases, publicity and
flyer design.
As a DJ and musician Mark has played at many and various events &
venues including Return to the Source at Brixton Academy, Open, Epping
Forest Country Club, ICA, Ocean, Soho Festival, Shoreditch Electricity
Showrooms, Crawley Arts Centre & the Dogstar. He has run a monthly
Sunday comedown session at Frevd Gallery in London, released a 12”
single on his own label and is currently working on new material for
release soon.
Mark’s raya cd mix album “Come Home Safe” is available here
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