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gigsoupmusic · 5 years

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ALGIERS release new audiovisual piece, announce 2020 UK & European Tour Dates

ALGIERS have released collaborative audiovisual piece, “Can the Sub_Bass Speak?”, a new work from the band and production duo Randall Dunn and Ben Greenberg (Jóhann Jóhannsson's Mandy Soundtrack, Sunn O))), Uniform). The new piece pits charged language and free jazz collage by ALGIERS multi-instrumentalist Franklin James Fisher, saxophonics pioneer Skerik and drummer D’Vonne Lewis against a maelstrom of visuals by award-winning filmmaker Sam Campbell and typographer Farbod Kokabi. Inspired by a chance encounter with artists Moor Mother and Harrga at Wysing Polyphonic in 2018, “Can the Sub_Bass Speak?” contorts ALGIERS’ post-punk deconstruction of racial and class sonic politics into new collaborative directions. “Can The Sub_Bass Speak?” is the centerpiece of a larger web installation thereisnoyear.com, which can be found HERE. The film recalls the ‘visual abstraction’ and political radicalism of Lis Rhodes and John Akomfrah, situating Fisher’s lyrical examination of structural racism within the disorienting resurgence of fascism across Europe and the United States "Who has the cultural authority to designate origin and authenticity?" Fisher says on the project. "Can the Sub_Bass Speak? is a frustrated regurgitation; a re-contextualization; a re-appropriation; a shield and a mirror that projects back onto the world a lifetime of interpellating language rooted in weaponized ignorance and supremacist privilege." The improvised punctuation is provided by Skerik on the tenor saxophone and D’Vonne Lewis on drums and percussion, with auditory elements tracing the evolution of African-American music and experience. ALGIERS have also announced UK & European headline tour dates for 2020. Kicking off in Brighton on February 3rd, the band headline London’s Village Underground on February 5th, before continuing to further stops in the UK and Europe. Tickets for the 2020 shows go on sale Friday, August 30th, at 9am. A full list of current and upcoming dates can be found below.

Tour Dates Aug 28 Montepulciano, Italy – Acquaviva Aug 29 Bassano Del Grappa, Italy – Unknown venue Sep 14 Dornbirn, Austria – Unknown Sep 17 Berlin, Germany – Lido Sep 18 Hamburg, Germany – Reeperbahn Festival Sep 19 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso Sep 24 Krakow, Poland – Venue TBC Sep 27 Thessaloníki, Greece – Street Mode Festival Sep 28, Patras, Greece – Venue TBC Sep 29 Ioánnina, Greece – Route 66 3 Feb Brighton, UK – The Haunt 5 Feb London, UK - Village Underground 6 Feb Manchester, UK - YES 7 Feb Glasgow, UK - Stereo 8 Feb Dublin, IRE - Whelans 10 Feb Leeds, UK - Brudenell 12 Feb Brussels, Belgium - Botanique Rotonde 14 Feb Cologne, Germany - Club Volta 15 Feb Schorndorf, Germany - Manufaktur 17 Feb Frankfurt, Germany - Zoom 18 Feb Dresden, Germany - Beatpol 20 Feb Warsaw, Poland - Hybrydy 21 Feb Prague, Czech Republic - Lucerna Music Bar 22 Feb Vienna, Austria - Flex 24 Feb Munich, Germany - Strom 26 Feb Rome, Italy - Monk 27 Feb Milan, Italy - Ohibò 29 Feb Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz 3 1 Mar Madrid, Spain - Café Berlin 3 Mar Bordeaux, France - Barby 4 Mar Nantes, France - Stereolux 5 Mar Paris, France - La Maroquinerie Read the full article

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floorkoeleman · 5 years

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The Awakening of the Arts also known as Allegory of War and Peace

This enormous canvas (161.9 x 238.7 cm) was painted by Frans Floris I around 1560 and depicts not the nine Muses, as Karel van Mander wrote in his Het Schilder-Boeck of 1604, but the seven liberal arts (trivium + quadrivium) supplemented by architecture, sculpture and painting.

The music scores display a French polyphonic chanson with the following lyrics:

‘Le cruel mars faict qu'en long sommeiller / toute science a reposer s'efforce/ mais luy vaincu par prudence et par force/ le vray amy nous viendra resueiller.’

or: ‘Cruel Mars [war] plunges all sciences [the different branches of knowledge] into a deep sleep. But their true friend will awaken them, after defeating Mars with prudence and strength.’

This was a popular theme in early seventeenth century writings. See for example Karel van Mander (1604): ‘Oock is dit heerlijck, en prijslijck, dry Steden, Rhodes, Cicionia, en Siracusa, dancken met grooter eerbiedinge onse Const, datse door den wreeden Mars en rasende Bellona niet bloedigh verdorven zijn gheworden: dit zijn al uytnemende litteeckenen. maer die daer nieuwer begheerde, die en hoefde (soo't hem gheleghen waer) maer te gaen tot Praga, by den teghenwoordigen meesten Schilder-const-beminder der Weerelt, te weten, den Roomschen Caesar Rhodolphus de tweedde, sien in zijn Keyserlijcke wooninghe, en oock elder, in alle Const-camers der machtighe Lief-hebbers, alle d'uytnemende costlijcke stucken, ondersoeckende, overstaende, en rekenende yeders weerde en prijs, om te sien wat mercklijcke somme hy vinden sal. Ick acht, dat hy verwonderende veroorsaeckt sal wesen te bekennen, onse Schilder-const te zijn een edel uytnemende heerlijcke deughtsaem oeffeninghe, die voor geen ander Natuerlijcke, oft vry Consten te wijcken heeft’.

Cornelis Drebbel writes in 1607: ‘Cicero schrijft / dat Archimedes had een Spheer gemaeckt die hem eeuwelijck na den loop des Hemels konde beweghen : maer soude door’t verderflijcke Oorlogh / beyde den Meester en zijn Instrument op eenen dagh vernielt zijn / waerom het teecken van waerheyt verloren. [...] Waer uyt moghen bekennen die vrucht van het bloedighe Oorlogh / ende die wijsheyt van de vreedsamighe Coningen / welcke door goede Wetten soecken te verhoeden die misdaet / en het quaet door Justitia rechtveerdelijck te straffen: ghedenckende/ dat rechtveerdicheyt niet wil / dat straf de misdaet sal overwegen / maer liever dat straf door beweghelijcke barmherticheyt soude verlicht worden / op dat alle Menschen souden smaken die aenghename vrucht van de wyse Regenten / en in plaets van ’t wreede bittere Oorlogh/ haer vermaken met de soeticheyt van de Consten / waerom tot een inleydingh dese mijne arbeyt begonnen’.

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librarification · 7 years

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Residency: UK

Open Call for Applications for Artist Residencies in 2017

Ends on January 16, 2017

Wysing Polyphonic

During 2017 Wysing will be exploring ‘many voices’ across all our programmes under the over-arching title Wysing Polyphonic.

Through residencies, exhibitions, events, study weeks and study days, we will work with a range of artists to explore a diversity of contexts and positions to help better understand the role of art, artists, and arts organisations such as Wysing, at this moment of global political change.

Throughout 2017 we will provide both a platform for many voices, in particular those that have the potential to be over-looked in the current political rhetoric, alongside a range of ways that those voices can be heard. Building on a number of events during 2016 that explored alternative sites for community and activism, we will be seeking to work with artists whose work, or whose networks, empower and support diverse communities of interest. We will also be further exploring the role of radio, broadcasting, sound and listening.

To set the context, we have invited three artists to be in-residence: US based Iranian artist and writer Maryam Monalisa Gharavi; Mumbai based artist Pallavi Paul; and London based artist Tai Shani. A further six artists will be invited to be in-residence through this open call for applications.

Other Developments in 2017

An exhibition in February 2017 will launch the Wysing Polyphonic programme and will bring together artists who were in-residence during 2016 through a synchronised arrangement of projectors, monitors, objects and surround sound in Wysing’s gallery.

In early 2017 we be will launching our first vinyl record on our new label, also entitled Wysing Polyphonic, by the band Ectopia who are artists Jack Brennan, Adam Christensen and Vicki Stieri.

Further expanding on the theme of many voices, Wysing’s annual music festival, which returns to early September 2017, will be programmed for the first time by a range of invited international collectives and contributors.

And we are excited to have been awarded funding by the Foyle Foundation to build a recording studio at Wysing in the summer of 2017. The studio will allow us to commission new works for recording and broadcasting as well as being a resource for artists and musicians.

Artists in Residence

Through this Open Call we are inviting artists, musicians and writers to apply to be in-residence within the Wysing Polyphonic context. We are particularly looking for artists who can bring a range of cultural, social, racial and gender perspectives to the programme, and who will enjoy participating in events as part of our public programme.

The amount of funding we have for residencies is £4,000 for each artist, to cover: an artist's fee, materials and travel, plus free on-site accommodation during the period and a free studio.

There will be three residency periods:

20 March – 14 May 2017 3 July – 20 August 2017 16 October �� 10 December 2017

Please read these guidelines before making an application:

Profile of Artists We are particularly looking for artists, musicians and writers who can bring a range of cultural, social, racial and gender perspectives to the programme, and who will enjoy participating in events as part of our public programme

To Apply Applications are made online via Submittable. Once you have set up an account you are able to return to your application any time up until the deadline which is midnight on Monday 16 January 2017. It is recommended that you apply with enough time to approach us with any questions or queries in using the Submittable website. We are not able to accept applications after the deadline.

You will need to provide:

A statement on your work, why you are interested in Wysing Polyphonic 2017 and what you can bring to the programme (max 1,000 words).

Six images of your work, or other relevant material.

A current CV.

We are happy to accept applications that have been recorded onto video and uploaded onto Submittable, instead of written applications.

We are able to provide a range of workspace and accommodation and if you have any access or other needs that you wish to discuss with us before applying, please contact us on 01954 718881.

The deadline for applications is midnight on Monday 16 January 2017

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ozfactsblog · 5 years

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The Future of the Experimental Music Festival

A recurring theme at this year’s Wysing Polyphonic music festival, held annually on the rural grounds of Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire, was the intersection of electronic and analogue sound – often in the form of sonic signifiers of diaspora cultures. Flora Yin-Wong’s performance was a standout in this regard: weaving together recordings of traditional Chinese instrumentation and…

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tahliaarmstrongart · 5 years

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04/04/19 : STRATEGIES 2019 Residencies & Placements

APG – Artists Placement Group; founded in 1966 with the aim of placing artists in government, commercial and industrial organisations

The APG, founded by Barbara Steveni with her husband John Latham, emerged from the idea that artists are a human resource underused by society. Artists are isolated from the public by the gallery system, and in the ghetto of the art world are shielded from the mundane realities of industry commerce and government. The idea was that artists, designated Incidental Persons by Latham, would bring completely alternative ways of seeing and thinking to bear on the organisations they were placed in. APG would thus recognise the artist’s outsider status and turn it to positive social advantage.

Via https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/artist-placement-group

Lotte Juul Petersen

Lotte has been a Curator at Wysing since 2008. She has an MA in art history and cultural studies from University of Copenhagen and University of Leeds.

Emma smith is a Wysing studio holder and former residency holder

Syllabus II; a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme, wysing arts center, eastside projects, iniva, S1 Artspace, spike island and studio volatiare

Syllabus is an alternative MA for people who perhaps didn’t do a fine art BA but want to get into visual arts and develop their practice

A residency can have a flexible structure

Wysing grange farmhouse, was a farm for 300 years, with Giles Round they re-imagined the interior of the farmhouse, The Influence Of Furniture On Love, 2014

It features a bookcase designed and made by Giles Round which consists of books that artists in residencies have left with their names in.

Since 2010 they have been holding music festivals, was very much about artist bands

Wysing polyphonic recording studio & the wysing ceramic studio are two important studios in Wysing

When she first started at wysing her first residency project was with Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser, Amphis, 2008-; a building put directly in the centre of the site and is used for the music festival frequently, was all about community

On-going relationship is a key thing to wysings programme

Joel Furness

Programme Manager, Gasworks Gallery Joel has worked as Exhibitions and Events Assistant at Chisenhale Gallery, London.

As Programme Manager at Gasworks, Joel provides support for Exhibitions and Residencies interns

works with the majority of residency artists who are from outside of the UK

est. 1994 Gasworks is a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation working at the intersection between UK and international practices and debates. We provide studios for London-based artists; commission emerging UK-based and international artists to present their first major exhibitions in the UK; and develop a highly-respected international residencies programme, which offers rare opportunities for international artists to research and develop new work in London. All programmes are accompanied by events and participatory workshops that engage audiences directly with artists and their work.

https://www.gasworks.org.uk/about-us/

4 artists every 3 months

Residencies don’t have curatorial briefs all they ask if the artists take into condsideration London and Gasworks

Residencies are fully funded, they want the artists to be able to forget about things at home

They hope the 3 months is long enough for them to develop their practice and make use of their time in London but also not too long that it will disrupt jobs etc

They encourage artists to build a network in London which they do through studio visits, fundraisers etc

Artists are selected based on their applications, but they try to go for emerging artists;

Clear brief that responds to the conditions of the residency is vital

Also, small details like how the application is laid out

Key criteria is which applicant would benefit the most

Emma McGarry

Curator of Tate Schools Workshop programme

Emma McGarry is an artist and curator of the Schools and Teachers programme at Tate Modern and Tate Britain.

Her practice as an artist and curator are becoming increasingly integrated

Aims; enable young people and teachers to learn about themselves and others through being with art

It is their desire that all the young people who encounter their programmes they see themselves within the art

Principles; audience, art, artists

Their whole programme which is vast, is devised through working with artists

Invitation for artists to bring every part of themselves in their practice; their thinking, how they interact with other artists, how they work etc

Engages with around 3,000 people

Workshops are typically 90 minutes and they all take place in the gallery alongside the art and the public

Each academic year they work with 4 artists who deliver everything, each artist is employed for a year by Tate schools workshop programme

Termly they have artist development days where the artist’s work together

Naomi Harwin

Artist and NUA graduate Artist based at Wysing Art Centre, observing the world of objects and the curious visual and spatial relationships that arise

Predominantly makes sculptures but is moving more to installations

Ambiguous but familiar objects that don’t exist in the world already

Responsive to the material and imagery that she has been exposed to in her practice

Exploring the essence of the object

Considering the role of presence and absences

Applied for a 6-month residency for recent graduates in her 3rd year (2014) in Stoke-on-Trent

She had a studio space, mentoring sessions and a chance for an interim exhibition and then an exhibition at the end of the residency

Got involved with local organisations

Curation is a big part of her work

Her residency allowed for a transition period from education to being an artist

Has a studio at Wysing

Was involved in the circuit programme at Tate

Working as an artist facilitator at Wysing and kettles yard

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tiagomoraismorgado · 7 years

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thewiremagazine: .WysingArtsCentr launch new record label Wysing Polyphonic ICALondon https://t.co/jWPphlxqzv https://t.co/fClnvGsuOx

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sound-art-text · 6 years

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I went along to this last weekend and LOVED it - great to be surrounded by women in sound / noise / music all day with a wicked variety of performances. Particularly liked @mutamassik on turntables, voice recorder, drum kit, pandeiro etc. Recommend.

#wysing polyphonic #sound art #feminism #noise #cambridge #read

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poulomidesai · 6 years

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Performing at the ninth Wysing Polyphonic Festival of experimental music on Sat 1 Sept with Ewa Justka. A thread of mysticism and spiritual energy runs throughout the programme, weaving through sonic and performative works of great emotional and political power. Wysing Polyphonic aims to reveal and celebrate the hidden energies and potentiality that flows through us all. Programmied by Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) and Paul Purgas (Emptyset) Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wysing-polyphonic-tickets-45971026578 It’s a great line-up and affordable too!

#Wysing #wysing polyphonic #aisha devi #agf poemproducer #Ewa Justka #Poulomi Desai #laraaji #Moor Mother #Paul Purgas #mysticism #political music #new music #experiential #experimental music #free improvisation #sonic art #sound art #ontology #metaphysical

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a---z · 3 years

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https://www.mixcloud.com/abcz/the-stars-below-special-wysing-polyphonic/

Special The Stars below with tracks by artists who will perform at Wysing Polyphonic Festival, 'Under Ether', this week on Saturday 4th Sept. 2021, programmed and hosted by A---Z (this year Wysing festival curator)Featuring Manuka Honey, DJ Florentino, MJ Harding, object blue, YA YA BONES, Space Afrika, Alpha

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a---z · 3 years

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Saturday 4 September, 1 to 10pm

Wysing Arts Centre are delighted to invite A---Z (Anne Duffau) to curate the twelfth edition of Wysing Polyphonic, our annual festival of music and sound.

With CAMPerVAN, FAUZIA (Live), Ignota: MJ Harding & Nisha Ramayya, Juliet Jacques, Marissa Malik & Yeshe Bahamon-Beesley, object blue, Space Afrika, YaYa Bones.

Titled Under Ether, after the element thought to connect us to other realms, Wysing Polyphonic will step into the threshold of magic, the esoteric and speculative futures. For this year’s edition, the festival will be comprised of three rituals staged across the summer on Wysing’s site and on our online platform.

The climax of the festival will be an intimate day of open-air performances, music and readings at Wysing on 4 September. Using a new outdoor stage and sites across Wysing’s woods, CAMPerVAN, FAUZIA (Live), Ignota: MJ Harding & Nisha Ramayya, Juliet Jacques, Marissa Malik & Yeshe Bahamon-Beesley, object blue, Space Afrika, YA YA Bones, & more will join us over ten hours to explore forms of optimism, resistance, alternative realities and to speculate together on new possible futures.

Two further rituals will frame the onsite event: Ain Bailey will host a closed-door workshop in July for a group of long-term collaborators. This prelude to the main festival programme will connect Under Ether with Wysing’s summer exhibition, Version, in a ritual of sharing and healing together.

The third and final ritual will take place on WysingBroadcasts.Art in mid-September. A collaboration with New Art City will rework recordings from the 4 September event into an accessible and immersive online experience.

Media partners

TANK Magazine, The Wire, AQNB, Noods Radio

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a---z · 3 years

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NUSUN

21 Feb - 8pm

Live stream via twitch.tv/southkiosk

A counter curse

AFTER SUNDOWN

ONE YEAR OF WAITING

We unleashed the darkness

AND SUFFOCATING

IN THE GLOOM OF LOCKDOWN

OF THIS CELESTIAL COME-DOWN

NUSUN will unravel togetherness

back to bodily communions

NUSUN incantation will radiate, liberate eerie, abyssal, inner sounds to cancel out the instant.

A reversal of the now to shape the dazzling imminent present…

Matt Carter is an artist living and working in London. His practice comprises of and often combines different forms of cultural production, including video, sound, text, performance, design and curation. His work draws from the everyday, remixing video, images and sound recorded on-the-fly into newly formed environments which act as points of departure from, or sites of critical interrogation into, the physical and socio/cultural structures we inhabit.

Anne Duffau is a cultural producer, researcher, and founder of A—Z, an exploratory/nomadic curatorial platform exploring artistic practices and knowledge exchange through collaborations, presentations, soundscapes, screenings and discussions. Anne has previously run the StudioRCA Riverlight, London programme (2016-2018) and was the 2020 Wysing Polyphonic curator at Wysing Arts Center. She is the acting Lead in Critical Practice, within the Royal College of Art’s Contemporary Art Practice Programme & the lead for the School of Arts and Humanities Curriculum. She has performed live music under Alpha through a number of projects and collaborations.

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a---z · 3 years

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NUSUN

21 Feb - 8pm

Live stream via twitch.tv/southkiosk

with Matt Carter & Anne Duffau (Alpha)

A counter curse

AFTER SUNDOWN

ONE YEAR OF WAITING

We unleashed the darkness

AND SUFFOCATING

IN THE GLOOM OF LOCKDOWN

OF THIS CELESTIAL COME-DOWN

NUSUN will unravel togetherness

back to bodily communions

NUSUN incantation will radiate, liberate eerie, abyssal, inner sounds to cancel out the instant.

A reversal of the now to shape the dazzling imminent present…

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a---z · 4 years

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Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned

An online programme of mixes and soundscapes in August and a special online event with poetry reading and performance on 5 September at 6pm

“Collective minds exploring a positive present and rewriting the past.”

3 to 31 August

An online programme of mixes and soundscapes from CRYSTALLMESS, mobilegirl, LYZZA, AUDINT, Hannah Catherine Jones.

Saturday 5 September, 6pm BST

A special live broadcast on twitch.tv/wysingartscentre of poetry readings with Whiskey Chow, Rachel Long and Tanaka Fuego followed by a newly commissioned performance from Maëva Berthelot and Coby Sey.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wysing-polyphonic-the-ungoverned-tickets-112830150016

Wysing Arts Centre are delighted to invite A---Z (Anne Duffau) to curate the eleventh edition of Wysing Polyphonic, our annual festival of music and sound.

The Ungoverned looks at how we can deconstruct normativity through collaboration, exchange, texts, ephemeral gestures and other languages. This year’s programme emphasises the importance of difference and diverse ways of communicating: the morphing of words to choreographies, soundscapes, dialects and voices.

For the first part of The Ungoverned, five international musicians have created mixes and soundscapes experimenting between sound, music and spoken word and responding to the idea of being ungovernable and defying norms. These recordings will be presented on WysingBroadcasts.Art over the month of August and will present collective minds exploring a positive present and rewriting the past.  

The festival’s second part will be presented as a special live broadcast of readings from three international artists, writers and poets and will be followed by a newly commissioned performance from choreographer and dancer Maëva Berthelot and musician Coby Sey.

The broadcast can be accessed on Wysing’s website and WysingBroadcasts.Art.

The Ungoverned will be presented in partnership with The Wire, Tank Magazine & Noods Radio.

Trailer by Wysing Digital Producer Hen Page

Mixes: 

Christelle Oyiri Aka  CRYSTALLMESS  is a Paris-based multidisciplinary artist. She also goes by the moniker CRYSTALLMESS when she operates as a composer and DJ and released music on experimental electronic music labels such as PAN or Country Music in 2019, and self-released her EP Mere Noises in 2018.   “The mix INTROLUDO is built around Interludes and Intros - sonic interstices that often allow musicians to be their most vulnerable and reveal the psyche behind their project.”  Her work highlights the intersection between forgotten mythologies, memory and alienation. Whether she explores black french music erasure with her film and performance Collective Amnesia : In Memory of Logobi (2018), reflects on the idea of progress and linearity of time with Necessary Evil (2019) or dives into her own family history and indulges in sonic hauntology with Kiss & Tell (2020), music always occupies a place of choice in her work. During a residency at Wysing in August 2020 she will be working on her new sonic piece Poison Paradise 0, demystifying the supposed heavenly nature of the French Caribbean life.  

mobilegirl is a Munich-born-and-raised and Berlin-based DJ and producer.   Her endeavours are best described as a constant stretch of the comfortable and the finding of a new comfort therein.  Reflecting a general personal stance, as well as a result of her upbringing, mobilegirl's inspirations draw from a broad pool that makes her rather difficult to categorize.   Being quite uninhibited but thoughtful in her selection, her style behind the decks is focused on a highly energetic dancefloor but allows for emotionality, for softer moments but also attention-demanding breaks. A refreshing combination that gained her traction very early on in her career, playing CTM festival and international events within the first year of moving to Berlin - the second year of making music. She has later been signed to DISCWOMAN.   With her own productions mobilegirl has made a name for herself with club edits of R'n'B classics; a predilection for which draws through all of her work and the only one more prevalent influence being video game scores of various kind. The latter accordingly set the foundation for her debut EP "Poise" released in 2017. A string of tracks that seemed untypically mellow but were created in an effort to decelerate and invite the listener to do the same.   This project turned mobilegirl's inspiration into praxis as it opened up the doors for her to work on scores of films and art installations the years after.  

Brazilian producer and vocalist  LYZZA “has risen to become one of electronic music’s most promising young avant pop producers” - Beatport. In the last few years she’s familiarised herself with the alternative music scene and has worked herself from Amsterdam, where she spent her teenage years, to London where she currently lives. LYZZA   is a Producer/Vocalist & DJ recognised by platforms such as Pitchfork,  Subbacultcha and The Quietus. LYZZA is resident on NTS Radio and was named 'One of the artists shaping the future of music' by Crack Magazine. While teaching herself how to produce in her bedroom and working towards what would be her first release ‘Powerplay’; LYZZA kickstarted her career in 2016 playing DJ-sets at vogue balls in Amsterdam, but quickly paved her way into international clubs all over Europe & Asia, eventually becoming a resident at Amsterdam’s favourite club: De School, and Mykki Blanco’s tour DJ after the two connected.  Since her debut EP, Powerplay, exploded in 2017 (and has been used as soundtrack by CHROMAT and Mugler in their runway shows), LYZZA has been one to keep up with. IMPOSTER, her second EP released in 2018 solidified LYZZA as an composer, lyricist and more than just a club kid. 2019 has seen LYZZA take herself into a more poppier music realm and broke her tracks into Radio-waves with her latest 6-track release “DEFIANCE”. Which includes a collaboration with Hot Chips’ Joe Goddard and Jungle’s Tom McFarland. Her previous releases had already set her up as a brilliant singer and songwriter, but they were darker, less spacious, and mostly club focused. 

AUDINT is a sonic research group exploring the weaponization of vibration, developing cartographies of liminal waveformed perception (unsound), and investigating the ways in which frequencies are utilised to modulate our understanding of presence/non-presence, entertainment/torture, and life/death. In 2019, AUDINT published Unsound:Undead (Urbanomic), a collection of essays, featuring texts by prominent artists and theorists, on the topic of sound. More information can be found at www.audint.net. 

Hannah Catherine Jones (aka Foxy Moron) is a London-based artist, scholar, multi-instrumentalist, radio presenter and DJ (BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction, NTS - The Opera Show), composer, conductor and founder of Peckham Chamber Orchestra – a community project established in 2013. Jones is currently an AHRC DPhil scholar at Oxford University for which the ongoing body of work The Oweds will be presented as a series of live and recorded audio-visual episode-compositions using disruptive sound as a methodology of institutional decolonisation. 

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Poets: 

Rachel Long is a poet and the founder of Octavia - Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour. Rachel's poetry and prose have been published widely, most recently in Filigree, Mal, Granta and The Poetry Review. She is assistant tutor on the Barbican Young Poets programme. Her Forward Prize-nominated debut collection, My Darling from the Lions, is forthcoming from Picador in August 2020. 

Whiskey Chow  London-based performance artist and Chinese drag king, Whiskey’s art practice engages with broadly defined political issues, covering a range of related topics: from female and queer masculinity, problematizing the nation-state across geographic boundaries, to stereotypical projections of Chinese/Asian identity. Her performance is interdisciplinary, combining embodied performance with moving image and experimental sound pieces.   As an artist-curator, Whiskey launched, led and performed in Queering Now 酷兒鬧 in 2020 (as part of CAN Festival). Queering Now is a curatorial programme amplifying marginalized voices of Chinese/Asian queer diaspora in the West.  Whiskey has been involved in feminist and LGBTQ activism in China since 2011. She contributed to and performed in For Vaginas’ Sake 將陰道獨白到底 (2013)’ (original Chinese version of The Vagina Monologues), and curated the first Chinese LGBTQ music festival, Lover Comrades Concert 愛人同志音樂會 (2013), Guangzhou.  Whiskey's recent performances include: The Moon is Warmer than the Sun, Queering Now, Rich Mix, London (2020); Unhomeliness, Tate Modern, London; Whiskey the Conqueror, Tate Britain, London (2018); Purely Beautiful New Era (ft. Haocheng Wu), Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Great Conversation, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala (2017). 

Tanaka Fuego is a slam winning, multi published, international spoken word artist. Who has performed to sold out shows at Edinburgh’s Fringe festival and at Vault festival, has worked  with British Vogue and given diversity and inclusion talks to the likes of Recorded future. Fuego is a BBC Extra words first alumni, a Roundhouse Slam finalist  and also a roundhouse poetry resident, alongside being commissioned by the BBC. He is a black, queer artist whose poems cross leaps and boundaries throughout his Identity.  

Performers: 

Maëva Berthelot   choreographs, performs and teaches.   Her mode of working unfolds along the threshold between experimental, performative and collaborative approaches.  Drawing from improvisational and somatic practices, her research is rooted in a movement practice which is an ongoing inquiry into the themes of consciousness, transformation, healing, death and rebirth. Her interest lies in creating cathartic spaces in which the emotional and sensational states related to loss, grief and change can be explored, processed and assimilated into conscious experience.  Drawing attention to the tension between conscious/unconscious, rehearsed/improvised, visible/invisible and on the play between material/immaterial realms, her work explores ways to steer the body into trance, dreamlike and self hypnotic states with an emphasis on the importance of preparation in order to access those states in which the body can be utilised as a sensitive, awakened and connected vessel.  Maëva was born in L'Haÿ-les-roses, Paris in 1985 and lives in South London.  She has practised in companies and institutions such as Royal Opera House, Hofesh Shechter company, Batsheva & Riksteatern, Emanuel Gat company, Sadler's wells, Clod Ensemble, Rambert, Laban and The Place. 

Coby Sey is a vocalist, musician and DJ from South East London who offers a shifting, disorienting vision of club music.

Curator:

Anne Duffau is a cultural producer, researcher, and founder of A---Z; an exploratory and nomadic curatorial platform that explores artistic practices and knowledge exchange through collaborations, presentations, soundscapes, screenings and discussions. A---Z shares discursive practices that challenge preconceived ideas of race and gender identities, and challenges the powers that have shaped our (hi)stories. Anne is co-curator of the Dark Water event series, with artist Tai Shani, and co-founder of the night programme Décalé, with Chooc Ly Tan. She has collaborated with a range of projects and organisations including ArtLicks, Southwark Park Galleries, Mimosa House and Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London Please Stand By, or-bits .com, PAF Olomouc Czech Republic & Tenderflix. Anne has previously run the StudioRCA Riverlight, London programme (2016-2018) and is currently a Tutor at the School of Arts and Humanities, and is the acting Lead in Critical Practice, within the Royal College of Art’s Contemporary Art Practice Programme. She has performed live music through a number of projects and collaborations and has previously played at the Wysing music festival.

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