SATURDAY, 08 JULY
Wojciech Rusin [DJ Set]
Wojciech Rusin is a Polish-born audio visual artist based in London. He draws inspiration from alchemical and gnostic texts, early renaissance choral music and Eastern European mythologies. He released Syphon LP on ad93 in 2022 and The Funnel LP on Akashic Records in April 2019. He designs and makes 3D-printed reed instruments, reworking ancient designs with contemporary 3D modelling technologies. In 2020 he released Meat for the Guard Dogs on Cafe OTO’s Takuroku digital imprint, and the Rufus Orbis cassette for Boomkat Editions / Documenting Sound series. His music has been featured on BBC Four and he has worked for The National Theatre and The Southbank Centre.
https://www.wojciechrusin.com/
Psyché Tropes [DJ Set]
Psyché Tropes is label exploring the synaesthetic intersections between sound & its visual counterpart. est. 2014 by Steven McInerney.
https://www.psyche-tropes.com/
Alien Jams [DJ Set]
Alien Jams Initially started as a radio show, London-based Alien Jams has since evolved into a record label, event series and more – widely exploring sounds across experimental electronics, industrial, electro and noise.
https://www.alienjams.com
CLON x Ana Quiroga presents META [Live A/V]
META AV is an immersive audio-visual journey into future and unknown worlds, by CLON (Estela Oliva) in collaboration with electronic musician Ana Quiroga. Inspired by sci-fi narratives and cyberpunk aesthetics, META AV invites the audience to enter a parallel reality, a simulated world unfolding in real-time through interconnected utopian and dystopian scenes. Built as an art game using games engines, the performance is presented in FPV (first-person view), placing the audience as the main character of the experience, in which they act as explorers of CLON’s game-like worlds.
CLON is the project of artist, director and curator Estela Oliva, in which she explores futuristic and speculative fiction to reflect on the impact of digital technologies and the Internet in human behaviour, identity and our surroundings. CLON’s hybrid environments blend the physical and the virtual, unfolding a set of connected stories and experiences. These narratives come to life in experimental formats such as VR experiences and walk-throughs, installations, performances and films.
https://www.clonworks.com/
Ana Quiroga is a music composer, producer and sound designer, working across arts, film, audiovisual, interactive and immersive media. She explores new ways of music storytelling through mystic and experimental cinematic soundscapes. Ana is about to release a new album on Houndstooth this summer.
https://www.anaquiroga.net/
NNJA RIOT [Live A/V]
Nnja Riot is the project of multidisciplinary artist Lisa McKendrick. Her music is an exploration into the possibilities of instruments, electronics, collected sounds and the human voice. She performs with a combination of samplers, sequencers, self-built and modified synths. Onstage she likes to explore ideas of art as ritual through self-made costume. Her collected sounds reference the understanding of place through sound and the spiritual significance of locations revisited. She has co-designed the Fort Processor and Chernobylizer which are psychogeographic experimental synths.
Nnja Riot will incorporate sounds from industry and city development together with sounds from nature and community as a way to explore the theme of disappearing spaces. She will utilise these contrasting field recordings and found-sounds to incorporate into song compositions together with experimental filmmaking as visuals exploring this theme.
https://www.instagram.com/lisa_mckendrick
Dushume [DJ Set]
Amit Dinesh Patel, aka Dushume, is an experimental noise and sound artist, influenced by Asian underground music and DJ culture. His work focuses on performing and improvising with purpose built do-it-yourself instruments, and recording these instruments incorporating looping, re-mixing and re-editing techniques. Lack and loss of control are central to his work. He is a member of the Sound/Image Research Centre at the University of Greenwich, London, and Principal Investigator for the AHRC Research Grant “Exploring Cultural Diversity in Experimental Sound” (2021-23).
https://www.dushume.co.uk
Sagome [DJ Set]
Sagome is a London-based experimental music collective and label promoting DIY gigs and sound projects across borders.
https://sagome.bandcamp.com/music
Frédéric Aquaviva [Live]
Frédéric Acquaviva (born January 20, 1967) is a French experimental composer and avant-garde sound artist living in London who works since 1990 with voices, instruments, electronics, film and body sounds. In 2020, he is awarded the prestigious art-music-radio Karl Sczuka Prize for his “ANTIPODES”, being the third french composer to receive it after Pierre Henry and Luc Ferrari. Acquaviva has worked with major figures of the historical avant-garde including Isidore Isou, Henri Chopin, ORLAN, Joan La Barbara and created the artist space La Plaque Tournante and CRU Magazine with Loré Lixenberg.
“NO SOY UN ROBOT” 2023, 30′, premiered at CEIIDA, Mexico (April 21, 2023) for counter tenor, parrots, different voices and dead electronics (acousmatic diffusion by Frédéric Acquaviva on 8 speakers + sub bass).
www.frederic-acquaviva.net
Sagome [DJ Set]
Sagome is a London-based experimental music collective and label promoting DIY gigs and sound projects across borders.
https://sagome.bandcamp.com/music
patten [Live A/V]
London-based artist, musician, designer, and cultural researcher, Damien Roach aka patten presents his ‘Mirage FM’ live AV show, re-interpreting tracks from the first album made with text-to-audio AI samples.
Using an ultra-flexible system, with embedded precision AI audio analysis, his ‘crate digging in latent space’ continues in the live arena. Like a rogue scientist crossed with a cybernetic soundsystem DJ, making lysergic mutated audiovisual remixes of the album material live in realtime. “I can go super abstract and heady, stay close to the album, or dive into a 3am dancefloor zoner. No two sets will be the same, and it’ll all be really responsive to where and when it happens”. Like ‘Mirage FM’, the live AV floods the stage with tripped-out hi-tech AI videos against everything from pop to techno, R&B to opera, hip-hop and grime to ambient, all distilled into half-remembered fragmented forms.
https://www.instagram.com/patttten
Aventex [DJ Set]
Perusing a wide angle outreach to sonic enclaves. No predetermination. Explorative patterns.
https://www.mixcloud.com/alec-tullio
SUNDAY, 09 JULY
Mikel b2b Nick Hamilton [DJ Set]
Happy Cycling [DJ Set]
Happy Cycling is the collective noun for a group of London based record labels – namely Kit Records, Cold Blow Records, Organic Analogue and Mysthery.
Fuelled by a shared love of left field electronic music, psychedelic a/v installations and espresso martinis, the Happy Cycling crew host a popular series of low-key music socials throughout London.
https://www.instagram.com/happycyclingsocial/
DJK Huysmans [Urbanomic]
Urbanomic is a publisher and cultural producer based in the UK, aiming to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production.
https://urbanomic.com
Isnaj Dui [Live]
Since 2005, Isnaj Dui has stood awkwardly between neo-impressionism and electronica, conveying a minimal yet capturing sound using the pure tones of concert and bass flutes alongside home-made dulcimers and electronics. Alongside flute and cello, English has also studied electroacoustic music, alternative tunings and Balinese gamelan, creating a distinct voice which takes the flute away from its pastoral image whilst maintaining its unique sound. As well numerous solo releases, she has composed several soundtracks and installations and collaborates with a wide variety of interesting people.
On this performance, she’ll be performing pieces from her latest album ‘Cereus’.
https://isnajdui.bandcamp.com/
An Trinse [Live A/V]
An Trinse is Northern Irish artist Stephen McLaughlin. He has been releasing ambient music on his own label since 2015 dealing with the aftermath of the Irish conflict using archaeology and ancient history as a conduit. As well as performing regularly he has made an AV commission for CTM’s Vorspiel program in Berlin and also shown projects at the V+A museum and Stanley Picker gallery. He collaborates with Maxwell Sterlings on a visual show and creating as part of the Most Dismal Swamp collective.
Presents a new work in progress dealing with modern Northern Irish rituals and their abstraction into meme space.
https://an-trinse.bandcamp.com
FRKTL [Live A/V](The Oram Awards Presents)
FRKTL is the solo music project of British-Egyptian artist and award-winning composer Sarah Badr. Working with live sampling, vocal manipulation, field recordings and improvisation, she creates immersive explorations of sound. Her work is inspired and informed by nature — from world creation and biomorphic design, to simulations of complex organic phenomena. Building systems for graphics and sound generation, she explores relationships between form and space in new tech domains. FRKTL’s acclaimed album, Excision After Love Collapses, marks nearly a decade of independent, self-published work.
FRKTL presents an immersive audiovisual performance inspired and informed by nature — from world creation and biomorphic design, to simulations of complex organic phenomena.
https://frktl.com
Castles in Space [DJ Set]
UK Independent Vinyl Record label
https://www.castlesinspace.com
