The Engine Room and IKLECTIK present,
WomanMachina w/ Gina Birch + Anat Ben-David + Kamura Obscura + Digital Roses
Wednesday 10 May 2023 | Doors: 7:30pm | First Act: 8pm
Our Kiosk opens 1 hour before doors.
Tickets: £12 Advance / £15 OTD https://link.dice.fm/d184014e6d24
Kamura, Anat and Trudi collaborated during lockdown as part of and international project All Woman Networked improvisation platform (Arse Electronica 2020) Exploring telecommunication methods of coming together to make art and music. Now they invite other brilliant WomanMachina to join them.
Gina Birch
As one-half of the Raincoats’ core duo since 1977, Gina Birch is a punk icon with a pop sensibility, an art-schooled adventurer who has painted, filmed, and performed by her own rules for over 45 years—using her visual art to tell stories, charging raw recordings with concepts. She won’t hang back and never stopped being challenging. Her first solo album recently released, I Play My Bass Loud, evokes her singular approach to her instrument as well as an ethos. This album is a birthday card for the next generation of all women.
https://www.ginabirchpainting.com/
http://www.theraincoats.net/
https://www.instagram.com/gina.birch/
https://orcd.co/iplaymybassloud
https://ginabirch.bandcamp.com/album/i-play-my-bass-loud
https://youtu.be/w1UOTCWmPvU
Anat Ben-David
Dr Anat Ben-David explores the freedom of live improvisation combined with traditional musical composition, her collaborative and solo work founded in experimental theatre methodology. With six solo albums Anat defy the semantics of the word ‘album’, reconfiguring the word to take on a truly interdisciplinary meaning. Her background in the school of Visual Theatre, and as a member of electro–punk band Chicks On Speed, has led to projects such as Kairos OperaArt (2017) where live electronic processing meets classical instrumentation in a fusion of musical genres. In her doctoral research Oscillation and Disturbance in the OpeRaArt (Kingston University, 2015) Ben David coined the term ‘OpeRaArt’ to explain her method of working.
https://anatben-david.bandcamp.com/
https://vimeo.com/anatbendavid
https://thequietus.com/…/27328-anat-ben-david-tzipora…
https://artreview.com/april-2014-review-anat-ben-david/
https://thequietus.com/…/16441-anat-ben-david-interview…
Kamura Obscura
Atsuko Kamura, aka Kamura Obscura, is a Japanese agit-femme vocalist, bassist and electronic experimentalist. She is a former member of the seminal avant-garde ensemble Frank Chickens in UK, and a founder member of Mizutama Shobodan (Polka Dot Fire Brigade), the first Japanese all-feminist punk band in the 80s. Looped electronics, vocal improvisations through improbable effects, surreal Japanese chanson, the occasional roaring punk wailing…and avant-garde pop. There are all in her anti-genre music. Her latest solo album, 4AM Diary is described as “a nightclub cabaret in occupied territory, inscrutable subversion discombobulating kirsch-quaffing commissars.” By Stewart Lee, Idler May June 2022
http://www.kamuraobscura.com/
https://kamuraobscura.bandcamp.com/album/4-am-diary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KUa7lFQvGQ
Digital Roses
Digital Roses are hyper soul audiovisual sonic witches making Experimental Art Pop Music; Ambient Noise with Wistful melodies. Digital Roses are writing/production duo Trudi Veremu and Joanna Ramsay Patel who debuted with their unforgettable unique sounds performing at the finale of the 2022 Contemporary Music Prom. Moving songs bathed in Voice looping, modular synth, sonic rhythms and transfixing visuals, they a fresh act to keep your eyes and ears on.
www.digitalrosesmusic.com
www.instagram.com/digitalrosesmusic
https://digitalroses.bandcamp.com/track/waterfalls
https://www.youtube.com/live/CCPbnHRLdMA?feature=share
This event is part of The Engine Room
The Engine Room is a Morley College London initiative, continuing Morley’s legacy as a leading centre for electronic and experimental music and sound art.
The Engine Room is a platform for the exploration, education and promotion of experimental sound and music. It aims to engage with students, emerging and established artists to encourage and promote new work.
The Engine Room holds annual events, showcases and exhibitions alternating between a Morley student exhibition and a biennial international sound art competition and exhibition. Previous events have included a festival, conference, competitions, exhibitions, and performances. Courses are offered as part of Morley’s extensive portfolio of courses.
We are currently inviting entries for our next major event – The Engine Room 2023: International Sound Art Competition & Exhibition. The competition is open to emerging sound artists from around the world. Selected works will be eligible for a number of prizes, will be programmed at an accompanying exhibition at the Morley Gallery between April 24 – May 18, 2023.
“Sound system powered by AMOENUS. AMOENUS is an art organisation that facilitates, educates, curates and promotes immersive art centred around 3D sound”.
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