Saturday 25 April
The Lantern, 20:00 — 00:00
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emptyset's full frequency sound returns to its site of origin. Their latest set ‘Dissever’ reimagines and reengineers the hardware and exploratory sound worlds of the late-1960s, and was first created for Tate Modern’s ‘Electric Dreams’ exhibition on the histories of modern art and technology. FRANKIE & Kelman Duran reimagine avant-pop as a dubbed, fever dream of fragmented rhythms, eerie ambiance and cinematic catharsis, where raw cello meets spectral vocals, weightless melodies and broken up beats. Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor’s collaborative work is a highly kinetic and playful collision of body-centric vocal explorations and intricate rhythmic systems which forms a deliciously disorientating, hypersurreal space of semantic modulations, concrete poetry, cut-up beats and mimicked samples. The night closes with a much anticipated Bristol debut for GHOST DUBS, Stuttgart’s master of low-end pressure, live dub techniques, and industrial aesthetics.
emptyset
James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas’ longstanding collaborative production project emptyset crosses performance, architecture-specific installations and recorded work, pushing the possibilities of electroacoustic and computer music via auditory explorations of materiality, acoustic and architectural space, and the histories of electronic and improvised music, experimental media and global sound practices. Live these components are channelled into singular, full-frequency soundsystem physicality. More →
FRANKIE + Kelman Duran
Franziska Aigner works at the intersection of music, performance, and philosophy. After studying at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, she has shown her own work internationally and collaborated widely across disciplines, including with visual artist Anne Imhof and choreographer William Forsythe. Kelman Duran is a Dominican-born, Los Angeles-based producer, composer, and visual artist whose sound fuses reggaeton, ambient, drill, and industrial textures. He’s produced for Beyoncé and composed the score for 2022 Cannes-selected film Rodeo. His sound design is immersive, atmospheric, and cinematic—interrogating space, diaspora, memory, and violence. More →
Cara Tolmie + Rian Treanor
Cara Tolmie is a Glasgow-born, Stockholm-based vocalist and performance artist who explores the bonds and limits between voice and body through a vocal technique she describes as Internal Singing. Working between club culture and experimental sound design, Rian Treanor creates playful and rigorous work. In their collaboration his richly innovative rave-infused structures bend and contort around Tolmie’s incantations, resulting in a dissociative dance music that reassembles contorting vocal lines and knotting biomechanics into a network of unstable forms, “hitting a sweet spot where skill and hedonism come together.” The Wire More →
GHOST DUBS
GHOST DUBS aka Michael Fiedler gained international recognition with his album ‘Damaged’, on The Bug's PRESSURE label, and subsequent split release ‘Implosion’. Elements of traditional dub/roots, dub techno, and even shoegaze and drone, are fed through Fiedler's futuristic sound design and mesmerising, slo-mo dubbed gyrations: “an absolute immersive triumph, a furnace-reduced, machine-tooled groove of hypnotic, ever evolving high-density inner ear-bliss.” – Mojo More →