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.
