IKLECTIK presents,
Free Movements :: EQUINOX
Sunday 19 March 2023 | Doors: 3pm
Our Kiosk is open for the duration of the event.
Tickets: £15 General Admission https://www.tickettailor.com/events/freemovements/828026
Free Movements works to weave together some of the many threads that can intersect through rave. Bringing together improvised instrumental music, DJs, live sets and video in a space which celebrates a queer ecology of communal making, coming together, care and responsiveness.
Performers:
Woody 92
Anina
Donna Thompson (drums) + Dan Nicholls (keyboards) + Mark Sanders (drums)
Saskia
Dan Thorman
Lou Zon
Woody 92
Vision, subversion, history and bliss each flow like life blood in the work of Woody92. A DJ, aesthete, label-owner and experimentalist operating within the consistently fascinating outer-reaches of the Dutch electronic music scene, Woody92 is a multi-faceted artist whose distinct perspective manifests itself across alternate yet intertwined sensory plains. As a DJ, his expertly curated and characteristic sets deviate from the norm, exploring psychoactive strains of leftfield electronics, hypnotic techno and radiant minimalism.
https://soundcloud.com/woodyninetytwo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw6VLR6xfFM
Anina
Hailing from Bristol, Welsh-born DJ Anina has been a firm fixture at some of the city’s most prominent club nights of recent years (Timedance, Livity Sound, Idle Hands, Young Echo and Slack Alice – to name a few). Forward-thinking while still drawing on the UK’s rich bass continuum, she fiercely traverses tempos and genres – marrying ruff breakbeats, precision percussion, lo-fi atmospherics and low-end experimentalism.
https://soundcloud.com/anina/nts-radio-demon-poetry-w-anina-1122
Donna Thompson (drums) + Dan Nicholls (keyboards) + Mark Sanders (drums)
A specially curated set featuring three luminous instrumentalists, representing the emergence and renewal of Spring and a journey through Ursula K Le Guin’s radiant poetry from ‘Always Coming Home’.
Saskia
Saskia expresses arcane phenomena by producing music, making her mission to understand the role of the body under her concept ‘Sound to _____ this magnificent cell’. In 2022, she relocated to Bristol from Tokyo to explore electronic music more deeply. She has created several installations for galleries in Japan utilising various media including sound, smell, light and text – an experimental oscillation between music and art which constantly evolves her style of creation.
https://www.mixcloud.com/NoodsRadio/saskiatokyo-18th-july-19/
Dan Thorman
Dan Thorman creates improvised, long form drone and ambient techno using a range of hardware centred primarily around modular synthesis and granular processing of organic instrumentation. He builds soundscapes that are hypnotic and psychedelic, employing warm and comforting textures to sit underneath repetitious and evolving motorik sequences with a dub influenced approach to mixing and the use of effects.
https://soundcloud.com/deep-mind-music/vol-24
Lou Zon
Lou Zon (Louise Boer) is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist teaching at Goldsmiths, University of London. Their video work extends sonic tapestries into the visual realm, with a warm approach to abstraction. Lou’s work has a distinctive personal, poetic and dreamlike aesthetic, characterised by a strong focus on natural elements and textures. Their recent film work and research focuses on ecology, plant medicine, feminism, improvisation and experiments with analogue techniques.
Free Movements is a shared space to experience sound, movement, images, connections; plus spontaneous things which we couldn’t imagine or create if it weren’t for each of you who joins us in collaborative exploration.
This space is open to everyone, regardless of gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, skin colour, nationality, ability, etc.
We aim to bring into focus the nature of any gathering in a shared space – namely that of a temporary (but also lasting) community, which co-creates this event. Nobody here is merely a passive observer and all of our experiences are intertwined.
Whilst holding a space is more than making it ‘safe’ through rules of conduct, we ask you to join us in creating a context in which everyone can feel uninhibited, while also being respectful.
If you find yourself in a situation where you feel uncomfortable, please speak to the organisers, Lou and Dan, or to a member of staff from IKLECTIK.
“Sound system powered by AMOENUS. AMOENUS is an art organisation that facilitates, educates, curates and promotes immersive art centred around 3D sound”.
https://amoenus.co.uk
