Electronic music & expanded film: Laura Phillips | Joe Bates & Amalia Young | Lara Agar & Rosalie Warner
Doors 7:30pm
Tickets £TBC
Three sets exploring the friction between electronics, physical media, and acoustic performance.
Laura Phillips presents an expanded film performance inspired by her time in Rome, telecommunication & automobile accidents.
Joe Bates & Amalia Young build complex, glistening harmonies through instinctive processes, stacking strange chords between Joe’s custom synth, the Hyasynth, and Amalia’s violin.
Lara Agar & Rosalie Warner use violin, voice, and electronics to create a careful constellation of sound.
Laura Phillips is a non-smoking, Sagittarius, working with 16mm photochemical film processes and field recordings to explore the intersections of visual music, expanded film, and performance. Her work engages with themes of obsolescence, the commons, and information infrastructures.
Her most accomplished feats include climbing Aran Fawddwy and making it past 35. She had played with numerous improvisation musicians and was a key part of Viridian Ensemble, an audio visual improv group. Last autumn she undertook a research residency at the British School at Rome, where she continued her practice through loitering & listening —mapping the pastoral, the sonic, and the shifting hinterlands of the city.
To writer Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Joe Bates’s music evokes “the court music of a short-lived empire,” finding ceremony in looping phrases and novel tuning systems where strange chords sound like home. He works with choirs, orchestras, and chamber musicians, and builds new instruments from glass vessels, broken pianos, and circuit boards.
Amalia Young is a violinist and improviser specialising in classical and experimental music. Her ensemble projects include concert and recording projects with Apartment House, work with the Kavinsky Trio, and the Komuna Collective, who have brought programmes of contemporary and avant-garde string quartet music to nightclubs in Oxford and London.
Lara Agar’s music blends electronic soundscapes and sampled material with traditional acoustic and classical instruments. Taking a homegrown and intuitive approach, Lara’s interests lie in the accidental, the found, messiness of stuff, experimental music making, going with mistakes, (Beckett - “Fail again, fail better”), not knowing…
Rosalie Warner is a mezzo soprano and vocalist who moves between folk, opera, improvisation, contemporary, composition and more. She is a member of vocal ensemble HOWL, singer-composer collective Yolk, and SpiralArts, a cross generational and multi-disciplinary community of artists. HOWL recently released Night Creatures, written with Robert Macfarlane and Yuvan Aves, on Cosmo Sheldrake’s Tardigrade Records.