IKLECTIK presents,
B20 TEN (10 Years Of Broken20)
Saturday 17 September 2022 | Doors: 6pm | First Act: 6:30pm
Our outdoor Kiosk is open from 11am
Tickets: £12.50 Advance / £15 OTD https://buytickets.at/iklectik/738930
Scotland’s Broken20 – the ever contrary, genre hopping experimental label – celebrates 10 years of action with new live work from the label family and friends.
Ruaridh Law (TVO)
Ruaridh Law is a sound artist and musician based in Ayrshire, Scotland. Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist, as well as hosting radio shows and writing. These works have ranged from intimate audio performance, to large-scale outdoor works combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling. His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases. He runs the Broken20 multimedia label, which has been releasing experimental music, DVD, cassette, vinyl and mixed media works over 10 years and 50+ releases.
http://ruaridhtvo.com
http://www.broken20.com
Orphax
Amsterdam based musician and trained drummer Sietse van Erve (Orphax) was introduced to electronic music in the early nineties. After playing around with tracker software for a couple of years, he eventually recorded his first more serious attempts of music with beats and melodies in 1998, though soon lost interest in both these. He started researching new sounds and new ways of working – always with an organic touch, often incorporating sounds that would be regarded by others as errors or mistakes. Considering life isn’t without errors either. During this search, he found his way into drone and microtonal music. As a result in his most recent work, time and spatiality become more important factors. The goal of the music is for the listener to lose the sense of time and place. Live this is combined with room for improvisation. This way of working results often in an organic form of drone and minimal music. He has released over 50 releases, as Download, CD-R, Tapes, CD’s and Vinyl, on various labels, as well as self-released online since he started working on music. This includes collaborations with Machinefabriek and Martijn Comes. Furthermore, he contributed to many remix projects including work for Kenneth Kirschner, Sontag Shogun, Martijn Comes, TVO and Chris Dooks among others. In the past, he has shared the stage with various musicians including Martijn Comes, Jos Smolders, Frans de Waard (Modelbau), Zeno van den Broek, TVO, BJ Nilsen, Philip Jeck, Yann Novak, Sarah Davachi and Scanner.
http://www.movingfurniturerecords.com
https://www.15questions.net/interview/fifteen-questions-interview-orphax-aka-sietse-van-erve/page-1/
https://www.15questions.net/interview/sietse-van-erve-music-autism-interview/page-1/
Paul Purgas
Paul Purgas is a London based artist and musician working with sound, performance and installation. Originally trained as an architect he has presented projects with Tramway, Tate, Kettle’s Yard and Southbank Centre. He is one half of the electronic music project Emptyset working with electroacoustic and computer music, broadcasting and spatialised sound, presenting commissions with the Architecture Foundation and Tate Britain’s Performing Architecture programme and recent performances including Sonic Acts and Berghain for Transmediale 2020.
paulpurgas.com
Production Unit
Production Unit is Dave Donnelly, a musician and DJ based in Glasgow, UK. He’s been releasing music for over 25 years as a solo artist (including under the Dirty Hope pseudonym) and as a member of both Rose & Sandy and The Marcia Blaine School For Girls. While Donnelly’s output has often focussed on banging out dancefloor heat (cf. PU’s ‘ICU Tracks’, ‘Loving Grace’ or Exarcheia’ EPs), he’s just as comfortable producing glacial melodies and gentle ambience (Rose and Sandy, ‘Slow Notes’). As a classically trained cellist with perfect pitch, recent works certainly veer more towards the latter facet, with key themes being the musicality of speech, achingly long notes, using slight dissonance to create pulsing tones and incorporating anarchist texts and/or ideas into his work.
Mücha
Amanda Butterworth – otherwise known as Mücha – makes dreamy, sometimes dark, analogue and digital songscapes that shimmer, challenge, and always tell a story, if you listen closely. A fine artist by training, self-taught multi-instrumentalist and DJ since her late teens, Mücha possesses a radiant singing voice, reclusive in some works (The Colour of Longing, 2016), less so in others (Misc. Works, 2018), and always there – an instrument and portal, medium and message, omnipresent in her oeuvre in shifting forms and modes. Her releases to date, for her native London’s Blank Editions, Misc. lauded Glasgow drone-house Broken20, and most recently her album Fall, on Frequency Domain paint a picture of continuous expansion- sonic, thematic and methodological. Mücha’s art is hard to place; a constellation of influences and ideas that sits in a space of its own, both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the genres it courts. Of these, there are many: vintage space-pop and the shoegaze that spawned it, rolling ‘94/5 jungle (with the bouncing bass and clattering breaks), the inaugural techno of Atkins and Hood, whispery ‘IDM’, Krautrock, and the overlapping avant-futurisms of Cage, Reich, Riley, Derbyshire and Anderson. A melting-pot approach underpins everything Butterworth does, but also a purism. Miscellany, work, colour and longing… it’s all there.
mueka.space
Spatial
s p a t i a l ..is an electronic musician and multimedia artist from London whose work pushes the dynamics of sound system culture incorporating low frequency vibration, hacked code, and optisonic experiments. An unconventional artist in the turbulent realm of bass music, Spatial combines a preoccupation with emergent behaviour, rule based repetition and chaotic systems with an ability to shape dubbed out, cracked and reductive sonics into audible geometric form. Through textured intricate production, Spatial’s releases and live sets bring corporeal presence carved out with a minimalist’s scalpel.
cenatus.org
Tengui
It started with a mix, and ended with one. In between, I released two albums, on cassette, on my dear friend TVO’s label, some remixes (for Perc Trax, Broken20 and Grade 10), a compilation, and a stack of studio mixes and collages, always the central focus and preoccupation of the project – as well as actually playing out (& in). All of this material, give or take, plus individual works and artwork, is zipped together here at mp320 quality, with a final mix in FLAC form. If you like what you hear, kindly support the labels involved and find/buy it. Everything is, was and always will be dedicated to my clubnight, COLONY, and to my brother-in-crime, CB. Thanks for listening.
https://soundcloud.com/colonyparty
Jake Williams
Jake Williams cut his teeth playing live electronics with the avant-jazz band Red Snapper, as well as working on major TV shows and the occasional well-received techno record. He currently works as a DJ, producer, researcher and educator with particular interest in radical uses of digital DJ technology. He regularly performs solo (Iklectik, Cafe Oto, New River, Centrale) and with a number of international audio-visual and live art collaborations (Mutek/EM15, Sonar, NIME, Open Out). His current sets combine field recordings, internet audio grabs, Shazam’d music and especially composed DJ tools.
jfbwilliams.com
PRECIS
PRECIS (Adrian Holder), is a sound and visual artist who processes real world sounds using anything from a hacked radio through to software such as MAX for Live. Spanning an array of genres he aims to convey the intricate balance between audio and visual perception.
https://hackoustic.org/adrian-holder/
pantea
pantea works with different media in order to imagine and share narratives that are less heard. Everyday stuff, ecology and the more-than-human inspire her work. She has experience in performance arts, film, photography and music. pantea is currently learning about socially-engaged practice and community-based work by exploring possibilities brought about by listening. She is passionate about the environment, plants and wetlands. She has performed and exhibited works nationally and in the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Turkey and Scotland. a rough description: Exploring resistance through 1) my ongoing (slow) progress of working on repetitive sounds for a release on Hard Return and 2) the community-based work by Khamoosh collective. Khamoosh is a participatory artistic research project that mediates conservation and restoration by exploring the sonic heritage of Iran through recorded sounds of everyday life; sounds less heard or even silenced.
https://activelistenersclub.bandcamp.com/album/things
Thorsten Sideb0ard
Thorsten Sideb0ard is a Scottish/American programmer operating within computational art. He runs the Highpoint Lowlife podcast, and the annual Algorithmic Art Assembly conference and music festival in San Francisco. He is an active member of the live coding and algorave communities, developing and performing with his own live coding environment Soundb0ard.
theb0ardside.com
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