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THANK YOU

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Dearest Noisily family,

Well that was epic!

We want to thank you for showing up with kindness, openness and silliness in your hearts – we hear it said a lot but Noisily people really are the best people.

We want to particularly thank our amazing crew and everyone who worked so hard to make this such a special experience, we feel so supported and are proud to have you as our team.

We learn so much from each and every one of you every year, and we are honoured to be surrounded by you all, our chosen family.

We love you.

The Noisily team.

xxx

CREATIVES OF NOISILY – Kimatica studio

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We interviewed some of our Creatives of Noisily to reveal the personality and inspiration behind the art… 

Introducing: Kimatica studio

www.kimatica.net

What is your involvement at Noisily this year?
We are showcasing our laser shows “Andromeda” at Noisily main stage on Friday and Saturday, as well as our director Maria Almena is doing a performative lecture at the Mind-Body-Soult on Friday at 19h.

If you are a partnership or collective how did you meet?
We’ve meet at art university and have been created together since then.


What inspired you to work in events? And who was your greatest inspiration?
Our signature experiences offer transformative possibilities to a contemporary audience, inviting them to explore the limits of their bodies, the depths of their imagination and the edges of their subconscious mind. We hide our technologies to enhance the sense of wonder and encourage our audiences to question different realities. Working in Glastonbury festival naughty areas was our biggest performative inspiration.

Where is your dream place, for your work to be exhibited?

Tate tanks. We’ve worked with Tate before but never performed at the tanks

What were your first events you worked on and what was the experience like?We worked at DIY underground art events in London as well as festivals. It was wonderful to have all the freedom and support of the community. It taught us what real community is.


Where did you learn your craft? and what are your qualifications?
We both have fine arts BA/MA, but we are self-taught in interactive technology and performances.


What is your favourite piece that you previously created or worked on?
Transcendence.

GETTING TO NOISILY 2023

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PLEASE NOTE if you are travelling by car you need to book a Car Park Pass from here. They will be £30 on the gate so it is worth buying one now.

Noisily Festival takes place in the rolling hills of the Leicestershire countryside, 10 minutes from Grantham. 

Ticket buyers will be sent the exact location driving instructions with their tickets.

Just to note – Everything we do at Noisily we do for you, for each other, and with each other, and it is upon this community spirit, this underlying sense of unity, that the festival continues to thrive. This year, as we move to our new home in the woods, it’s especially important that you take in all the detail as a new site presents not only a plethora of new creative possibilities – it also means there is lots of new travel and site information to take in.

Don’t forget if you are travelling by car you need to book a Car Park Pass from here.

TRAVEL BY TRAIN

The easiest and greenest way to reach us is to hop on the train to Grantham, which only takes one hour to reach from London Kings Cross. If you’re planning on using this train in rush hour we’d strongly advise booking in advance with returns tickets from London costing on £31.50 today via Trainline.com. From there, it is a short 15 minute cab journey to the festival site with our official taxi company ‘Grantham Taxis’. 

TRAVEL BY COACH

For the third time we will be organising nationwide coach services to the festival from various city locations with Tuned in Travel.

CARPOOLING

We hope that this will encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint and kick off their festival a few hours earlier by meeting some friends on the bus.

If you have space in your car, or are a passenger without wheels, use our carpooling community group to travel sustainably. This way, you can make some new friends, save money on fuel and reduce your environmental impact all in one. 

SITE OPENING TIMES

Please ensure you arrive within the timings below. You will not be able to access the site and be wristbanded outside these times.

If you arrive outside of the gate opening times, you will not be able to access the site

Thursday 6th July: 14:00 – 22:00 (Car park opens at 12:00).
Friday 7th July: 10:00 – 23:00
Saturday 8th July: 10:00 – 22:00
Sunday 9th July: 10:00 – 22:00
Monday 10th July: 10:00 – 14:00

CREATIVES OF NOISILY – Joseph Williams

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We interviewed some of our Creatives of Noisily to reveal the personality and inspiration behind the art… 

Introducing: Joseph Williams

www.bamboology.co.uk

What is your involvement at Noisily this year?
Delivering and installing an immersive art installation.

What inspired you to work in events? And who was your greatest inspiration?
I was inspired by the dance temples found at European psytrance festivals over the last 20 years. I was greatly inspired by my time working and living at Boomland in Portugal with the bamboo master craftsman Gerard Minikawa.

Where is your dream place, for your work to be exhibited?

I am already living the dream building dance temples across
the UK and Europe this summer.

What were your first events you worked on and what was the experience like?
The Nomadic Temples were first installed at Boomtown.

Where did you learn your craft? and what are your qualifications?
I worked on large-scale architectural projects in London before gaining experience in bamboo design & construction in California and Portugal. I then worked as the head designer in a bespoke fabrication
workshop before setting up bamboology.

What is your favourite piece that you previously created or worked on?
The Beacon was commissioned by Climate Art and installed at Rye Harbour as part of the Vanishing Seas artist residency.

What excites you about exhibiting at Noisily?
The wonderful dancers will hopefully dance around and in my sculptures. My manifesto and vision is a bombastic alchemy of bamboo and tents. It’s a vision of living loving and dancing lightly on the earth with bamboo and colour.

What are you working on at the moment?
I’m building a tensile outdoor classroom and designing and making a bamboo sculpture while preparing my crew for the 5 festival builds we have coming up.

CREATIVES OF NOISILY – Maria Linares Freire

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We interviewed some of our Creatives of Noisily to reveal the personality and inspiration behind the art… 

Introducing: Maria Linares Freire

What is your involvement at Noisily this year?
I will be designing the Colonnade of Superstition.

What inspired you to work in events? And who was your greatest inspiration?
My work is inspired by the geometry hidden in nature, how everything is united by almost invisible threads that connect all. I have so many inspirations, but Leonardo Da Vinci was a true icon for his multiple talents and the knowledge that he behold.

Where is your dream place, for your work to be exhibited?

Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, I would love to see my work suspended in the air while reflecting on the surface.

What were your first events you worked on and what was the experience like?
The first events that I worked on were art exhibitions and art fairs. It was a great experience as I got to meet other artists and gain insights about various different art forms.

Where did you learn your craft? and what are your qualifications?
I am a self taught artist, I always had a passion for geometry and nature that has become the core of my work. Being curious, imaginative and perseverant has raised the level of my creations.

What is your favourite piece that you previously created or worked on?
I truly enjoyed painting a mural on Waterloo Arches. It was the biggest commission I have ever done and it was a real thrill to have a 7 x 5 metre artwork decorating central London for one year.

What are you working on at the moment?
As fine arts, I have been researching and painting a large mural dedicated to science, from physics, cymatics, biology, microbiology…it’s a tribute to all the amazing things that help life to thrive.

I have been working on the 5th Issue of www.revuerevolution.com/en, a review of poetry, science & art where I am the editor for the arts. For first time we will have printed editions in French and English published in April 2023. I am looking forward to this!I am also one of the artists of holo-art.io, a truly exciting project of polymath co-creations that took my art to space in March 2023.

The Nook 2023

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Introducing The Nook… 

A lysergent sonic wave of Medicinal Dance Music deep in our brand new Leicestershire forest.

With visionary sound scapes woven by a shamanic order of priestess and wizard DJ’s alike, THE NOOK as always will embody a new dimension of sacred sounds and ritual beats to satisfy the native, barefoot dancer within us all.

This effeminate sound has proved a revelation in recent @ the last 2 editions of Noisily as we welcome a host of awe inspiring artists to to take us through the weekend. These beats are powerful and earthy, pulsing as low as the heart beat, bringing new rhythms, grooves and mystical melodies that expand the possibilities of psychedelic dance music.

Important changes to our 2023 edition

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Dearest Noisily faithful,

As you know from our previous announcement, purchases of festival tickets across the industry have plummeted in the last few months, and Noisily is no exception. 

In these difficult times we’re learning that it’s important to be flexible and fluid and as such we have decided to reduce the capacity of the event and scale it back to the same size and scope as in 2022, focusing on our core, existing stages that we are so well known for.

This means two things:

  1. After much discussion we have decided it’s necessary to cancel out two new stages – The Nest and The Hollow. We were so excited about this new evolution for Noisily, but due to the many forces out of our control, and to guarantee the survival of our cherished party, it’s a decision that had to be made.
  2. Due to us paring back the event it now means that we only have less than 300 tickets left to sell.

This has been such a tough decision which has not been taken lightly and we are truly sorry if this causes any frustration or anger. We want to say a massive thank you to the support of the artists and from the bottom of our hearts we apologize for letting you down. 

This celebration of our 10th birthday is going to be amazing and we will welcome you to our new home in style – that we promise. 

Love from the Noisily team.

CREATIVES OF NOISILY – Joey Dean

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We interviewed some of our Creatives of Noisily to reveal the personality and inspiration behind the art… 

Introducing: Joey Dean – Natural Symphony

What is your involvement at Noisily this year?

I am an artist called Natural Symphony, I make music, visuals and installations controlled by the bio-rhythms in plants and trees, and this year at Noisily I am bringing my Enchanted Forest installation, an immersive, interactive experience controlled by the forest itself, there will also be some tree controlled

techno performances and plant controlled sound healings across the weekend too. I’m Suuuper excited.

What inspired you to work in events? And who was your greatest inspiration?

I have always had a big passion for immersive AV performances, for me its very transportive, and as an artist the visual side allows me to create the scene for the story of the music. Bicep and Max Cooper do this very well and have been big inspirations for me over the years I’ve seen a number of their AV shows and they always create such an amazing space within their performance, it really takes people some where else.

Where is your dream place, for your work to be exhibited?

This year i’ll be traveling to record plants and trees in the Amazon Rainforest and perform at Burning Man festival, both of which have been goals I’ve been working towards for years now, a very exciting year for me this year

What were your first events you worked on and what was the experience like?

My first real paid gig with the plants was at the Royal Chelsea flower show, I got to display an installation and perform for BBC1 with Woody Cook, it was a really fun experience and had the opportunity to meet at show my work to some more familiar faces including Calvin Harris and Zoe ball.

After this, things started rolling for me and led to bookings at Glastonbury festival, the Barbican Theatre, Earth theatre, Wilderness festival and more, it was a great way to kick start the project and I am extremely grateful for that experience.

Check out his website here. 

Check out his Instagram here.