IKLECTIK presents,
ZAHRA MANI
+
PHIL MAGUIRE
Friday 18 October – doors 8pm – start 8.30pm | £8 adv / £10 otd | BUY TICKETS
This event is part of the series of parallel events organised in collaboration with The Engine Room 2019 Exhibition and IKLECTIK’s 5th anniversary.
Zahra Mani
Ph Credit: Markus Sepperer
Zahra Mani is a musician and composer from Pakistan and London. She lives and works in Austria and travels extensively in the UK, Croatia, Italy and Pakistan. Her work includes compositions for solo instruments, voices and ensembles, radio art, sound installations as well as electro-acoustic and inter-meidal performances. She plays the double bass, various guitars and the piano, and studied Indian classical music in Pakistan. In her compositions and performances, she uses electronics whilst always focussing on “organic” sound, only working with analogue sounds and field recordings she collects in an ever-growing archive.
Zahra Mani’s works are imbued with her distinctive compositional voice, which continues to grow out of a fundamental openness in hearing and listening, always trying to include every acoustically perceptible moment in the creative process. Her approach to sound characterises her musical language, which carries in it a continuous and subtle pulse, and which constantly calls into question traditional aspects such as melody, rhythm, time structure and acoustic aestheteics. As a composer and multi-instrumentalist, she creates pulsing, shifting soundscapes derived from her burgeoning archive of instrumental and found sound. Her work focuses on spaces between, where field recordings, voices, instruments, machines, the sea, the wind, animals and landscapes provide the acoustic basis for auditory worlds.
She is a member of various Austrian and international composers’ associations, curates cultural projects across Europe and has received a number of awards for her work, including the Austrian Outstanding Artist award for music in 2017.
https://www.ctm-festival.de/archive/festival-editions/ctm-2018-turmoil/. (Participation as Medusa’s Bed)
Phil Maguire
Phil Maguire is a composer, improviser and sound artist from Scotland, currently based in London. Working with computers, synthesisers, and tape equipment, Maguire produces music and sound works that explore emptiness and malfunction, of self and of machine. Works by Maguire have been released on labels including Dinzu Artefacts, Resonus Classics, Confront Recordings, falt, and Soft Error. He collaborates in projects with musicians including Anne La Berge, James L. Malone, John Macedo, and Eleanor Cully, and performs in Galvanize Ensemble. Maguire runs verz, a tape label and concert series.
petricore (2019) is an installation in which electronic noise mimics the sounds of rain.
In the piece, Maguire examines conventions of field recording and the glut of field recording albums, pleasant (nature) vs unpleasant (digital) noise, and notions of hoarding, or compulsive ‘archiving’ of sonic environments. The piece is a morphing soundscape of artificial rain, created digitally by means of software, and recordings of various broken and ‘empty’ audio devices.
Thumbnail Ph Credit: Karin Schorm
