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Pascal Savy, Merkaba Macabre, Howlround & Janek Schaefer IKLECTIK, Sat 8 July, 8-11PM We are proud to present an evening of performances with Pascal Savy, Merkaba Macabre, Howlround & Janek Schaefer. Part of the SONIC Waterloo sound art festival. | £10 otd / £7 adv, Facebook event link. | Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/2sJn34Z Pascal Savy // pascalsavy.bandcamp.com Pascal Savy is a French musician who lives and works in London. He creates organic ambient and drone music as a way to reflect on erosion, transition and decay. He utilizes tones, textures, micro-melodies and noise to explore atmospheres rather than narratives. His work often combines acoustic and electronic sources generated from field-recordings, pick-ups, tape loops, feedback, synthesisers or home made electronics. He is also a contributor to online magazine Fluid Radio. Merkaba Macabre // http://merkaba-macabre.net/ Merkaba Macabre is an audio visual project by London-based mulit-disciplinary artist and curator, Steven McInerney. He is also the founder of the Psyché Tropes record label. Howlround // howlround.co.uk First coming to prominence with hugely-acclaimed 2012 LP The Ghosts Of Bush, Howlround have now expanded to a sextet (four machines, two people) and create recordings and performances entirely from manipulating natural acoustic sounds on vintage reel-to-reel tape machines, with additional reverb or electronic effects strictly forbidden – a process that has seen their work compared to William Basinski, Philip Jeck, Morton Feldman and even the sculptures of Rachel Whiteread. Janek Schaefer // janekschaefer.com Janek Schaefer is a sound artist, entertainer and professor who originally studied architecture at the Royal College of Art. It was there that he worked with Brian Eno and Artangel, creating “Recorded Delivery”, in 1995, and discovered how important sound is in perceiving space, and place. His foundsound concerts and installations explore the spatial, social and emotional qualities that sound can communicate, through the twisting of old and new technology. The context of each idea is central to its development and resolution, often exploring themes of appropriation, accident, & alteration. The Bluecoat Gallery in Liverpool exhibited a Retrospective of his career in 2009. He is represented by the Agency gallery, London, and is Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes Sonic Art Research Unit. He lives and works in Walton-on-Thames. Supported by the Arts Council England. Curated by IKLECTIK & Unpredictable Series.

We are proud to present a series of afternoon sound and poetry performances, featuring Rie Nakajima, Sue Lynch, Douglas Benford, Adam Bohman, Sharon Gal, Virna Teixeira & Albert Pellicer. Please note that this performance will be conducted out of doors. Part of the SONIC Waterloo sound art festival. | Free entry, Facebook event link.  | All welcome | Image : Dawid Laskowski Rie Nakajima // rienakajima.com Rie Nakajima is a Japanese artist working with installations and performances that produce sound. Her works are most often composed in direct response to unique architectural spaces using a combination of kinetic devices and found objects. She has exhibited and performed widely both in the UK and overseas and has produced ‘Sculpture’ with David Toop since 2013. With Keiko Yamamoto she has a music project 'O YAMA O' which explores music with no genre. She also has a collaborative project ‘Dead Plants/Living Objects’ with Pierre Berthet. Sue Lynch // suelynch.wordpress.com Sue Lynch is a composer and multi-instrumentalist working in the improvised music tradition. Lynch currently runs The Horse Music Club at I K L E C T I K with Adam Bohman and Hutch Demouilpied. She studied Fine Art at Coventry College of Art and in the 1980’s toured with The Happy End Big Band. She is also a band leader/arranger for Hogcallin (Mingus) and performs with ‘The Remote Viewers' (Petts, Edwards,Sanders,Kraabel and Northover),‘The Custodians of The Realm’ (text collages and improvisation) and Helen McDonald’ sounds of the seventies ‘Future Groove’. In 2015 she performed with The Cambodian Space Project and with Maria Vatentina’s opera ‘Mannequin’. In 2016, she was part of an ensemble of improvisers as part of Tarek Atoui’s ‘Reverse Collection’ at the Tate Modern. Douglas Benford // douglasbenford.org.uk Douglas Benford, composer and sound artist, has performed at institutions in the UK (Bristol’s Arnolfini, London’s Science Museum, Tate Modern, The Roundhouse, ICA and Glasgow’s CCA), festivals worldwide and has had installation work in numerous UK galleries. He focuses on acoustic improvisation using field recordings, classical instruments, objects, vocals and children’s toys. His regular collaborators include poet Tamar Yoseloff, Angharad Davies, Lina Lapelyte, Jem Finer and sculptor Rob Olins. He also co-curated, with Iris Garrelfs, Sprawl audio events in London. Adam Bohman // adambohman.bandcamp.com Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam's music is unique and experimental, incorporating Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation. Sharon Gal // sharon-gal.com Sharon Gal is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, experimental vocalist and composer. Her work relates to sound, architecture, live performance, free improvisation and participatory art, exploring the psychology of sound and its relationship with space. Sharon performs solo and in collaborations with David Toop, Steve Beresford and Phil Minton. She also directs participatory large group compositions, examining the inter-relations between people and place. She is a co-founder of Resonance104.4 FM. Her music was released by various labels and she performed in the UK & internationally including; The V&A, Science Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Modern & Tate Britain. Virna Teixeira // vimeo.com/user562285 Virna Teixeira was born in Fortaleza, Brazil. She is a poet, translator, neurologist, and works in psychiatric hospitals in London. Her poetry books and poetry pamphlets were published in Brazil, Lisbon, Mexico, Argentina and UK. Her poems appeared in Datableed, The Projectionist Playground, and she recently co-edited a Brazilian issue of the magazine Alba Londres. Virna has recently been experimenting with film-poems, and runs a small press (Carnaval Press), specialising in Brazilian poetry in translation. Albert Pellicer // http://bit.ly/2qYc5ai Albert Pellicer writes in English, Catalan and Spanish. His poetry explores ‘the unheard’ and timbre within the margins of text. He has collaborated with sound artist Ximena Alarcón, The Fumigation Of La Luna and worked with composer Francisco Coll in Óxido: First Repetition; premiered at Wigmore Hall, 2010; published by Faber & Faber Music. The film Breath of Sense by Helen Petts, is based on the translation of his poem into the whistled language of La Gomera - Canary Islands. He has also collaborated with visual poet Márton Koppány in Asylum; Iklectik, London 2017 and has two books published: El Lector de Núvols and Fennec. Supported by the Arts Council England. Curated by IKLECTIK & Unpredictable Series.

We are proud to present a performance evening with Steph Horak, Steve Beresford & Gino Robair as part of the Sonic Waterloo sound art festival. | £7 otd / £5 adv; Facebook event link. | Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/2sIfWd0 Steph Horak // stephhorak.wordpress.com Steph Horak is a sound and video artist, mainly focussed on systems for voice. Stylistically, her sound edges somewhere between experimental electronica, songwriting and conceptual art. These experiments can be found under the moniker SheIsRevolting. She has collaborated on releases for Mute Records and Fractal Meat Cuts. Her video work frames mundane experiences into hypnotic, endless dream sequences, and she has a great interest in exploiting the limitations of technologies, such as iPhone cameras or effects pedals for voice. Horak is a producer for arts organisations, universities, charities, and independent artists. Steve Beresford // en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Beresford Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over thirty years, working with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Christian Marclay and, of course, Alterations. He has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, composer and producer, and was was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012. Gino Robair // ginorobair.com Gino Robair has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. He is one of the "25 innovative percussionists" included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld, 2001), as well as a founding member of the Splatter Trio and Pink Mountain. His opera, I, Norton, based on the life of Norton I, Emperor of the United States, has been performed throughout North America and Europe. Supported by the Arts Council England. Curated by IKLECTIK & Unpredictable Series.

We are proud to present a talk and performance by Atau Tanaka, on the body as musical instrument. Part of the SONIC Waterloo sound art festival. | Free Entry, Facebook event page. | RSVP to [email protected] | All welcome The Body as Musical Instrument Atau Tanaka // ataut.net The lecture/performance considers the human body as musical instrument. To do so, we look at the use of physiological signals, notably the electromyogram, as a way to capture the gestural intention and effort of the performer. The use of biomedical technologies as computer interfaces, however, do not automatically comprise a musical instrument. To imagine a system that affords expressive musical performance, we will think about the notion of the “instrument”, and contrast it with concepts of the “tool” predominant in our technoculture. We will also consider the word, “performance” and its various artistic, technical, and social meanings. Through this extended vision of musical instruments, we will consider how biosignals provide a virtual instrument, or perhaps even turn performer into instrument. Atau Tanaka studied electronic music with Ivan Tcherepnin at Harvard University where he met John Cage during his Norton Lectures. He did his doctorate with John Chowning at Stanford University’s CCRMA. There he began working with electromyogram muscle signals as a musical interface, using the BioMuse. He has conducted research at IRCAM, formed Sensorband with Zbigniew Karkowski and Edwin van der Heide and then worked in Japan, performing with Merzbow, Otomo, and KK Null and others. He has since been researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris and Artistic Co-Director of STEIM. He is Professor of Media Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Supported by the Arts Council England. Curated by IKLECTIK & Unpredictable Series.

We are proud to present Soundhoppers, a sound exploration playgroup aimed at families with children aged 5-11 years old. The workshop will take place on Saturday 8 July, 11:30AM in the Old Paradise Yard. Facebook event link here, ticket details below.  The sessions aim to encourage careful and deep listening, and attempt to instil a nuanced and sensitive approach to the different qualities of environmental sounds around us. This is achieved by getting the children to explore and play with specially constructed soundboxes and other sound generating devices, and by a variety of listening exercises that explore various aspects of sound – whether that’s proximity (how far or close a sound is) or timbre (the tonality and type of sound), or volume (how loud or quiet a sound is). A different approach is taken from traditional music workshops in that the focus is on the wider creative possibilities with the medium of sound rather than on musicality. Music is generally considered a language in of itself in that it involves rhythm, pitch, dynamics, and modes of performance, but steering away from this language allows children to be much more uninhibited in their explorations, and allows for a freer and more playful engagement. The intention then is to instil within children a sense of careful listening and sonic curiosity, without the formalities of traditional musical discourse.  | £15 - 1x child // £20 - 2x children | Parent(s) go free! | Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/2rCUcjn | Limited availability, 10 max.

We are proud to present a talk with Jean-Paul Thibaud, Peter Cusack & Aki Pasoulas on sound and environment. It will be followed by solo performances by Cusack and Pasoulas. The talk is free, but the performance evening is ticketed. See below for details. Facebook event link.   | Talk: Free entry | 17:30-18:30 | RSVP to [email protected] | Performance: £7 otd / £5 adv | 19:30-21:00 | Buy tickets: http://bit.ly/2rKuHPq

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