Event details
Join us for Ealing Extranormal Volume 31. It is a monthly showcase for sonically adventurous experimental music in West London in association with OPEN Ealing.
Saturday 16 November
7.30 – 10pm
Tickets: Click this Link
Advance Ticket Fee = £12*
Ticket Fee on the door = £15
* We have a number of free guest passes for those unable to pay the price of admission (no questions asked). Please contact the organisers directly through the ticketing page, one per applicant.
There is no bar, so please bring your own refreshments.
The Programme
In this edition we feature sets from
Jason Kahn
Born 1960 in New York, Jason Kahn is a artist, musician and writer. He lives and works in Zürich. His work with electronics involves chaotic feedback systems and placing his body in the circuit flow. Grabbing open leads with the hands makes and breaks circuits, causing the synthesizer to overload or momentarily collapse. Various contact microphones, electromagnetic inductors and the synthesizer’s own output via a mixing board are used to modulate the parameters of the synthesizer. This results in a very dynamic system, often difficult to control, but allowing great expressivity—much like any acoustic instrument, but electronic.
Live radio captures during the concert and recordings made beforehand in the performance space and its environs provide further working material for each concert. In the end, these performances are essentially site-specific works, improvising with the space at hand, both in the sense of its physicality and the sounds found there. Every performance is different, not only because the music is improvised but also because the source material used pertains directly to each space being played in.
Rotten Bliss
Rotten Bliss is the violent, warm and weird visions of London based avant-garde cellist and vocalist Jasmine Pender. “Coarse and beautifully heavy…[with] hallmarks of folk, metal and classical, without subscribing to any particular tribe” (Wire Magazine)
Tony James Morton
Tony James Morton is an artist, musician, composer and educator whose work focuses on real-time systems aesthetics. These systems created have rules and structures, but within the confines of these boundaries there is enough room for improvisation, chance and probability. This allows for a different interpretation each time, creating unique experiences of sound and vision.
”As an artist I am fascinated in how we interface with sound and art. My work focuses on creating, what I like to call, audio/visual systems. These systems have rules, but within those created boundaries is enough room for users to improvise and move around the program how they feel. I like the idea of a piece of work never being interpreted the exact same way twice and these systems allow me this freedom to do so.”
Tiresias 2.0, a Sci-Fi Opera by Dominic Matthews
The year is 400,000 AD. Mankind has long since been eradicated from the Earth due to their persistent negligence of their environment. The last being on Earth is a cyborg variant of Tiresias, repeating a continuous message warning any future space farers away from the desolate planet. A seedling starts to grow in the rubble that awakens the human from within the machine. Tiresias is faced with a conundrum: should the plant be allowed to grow and eventually support a life that will ultimately destroy it again, or should the next generation be allowed to make the choice?
Dominic Matthews is a multi-disciplinary, cross genre composer. His works have been performed in Europe and the US by dance companies, rock groups and even a national Accordion icon! (guess). Dominic is currently working putting together a small Australian tour of Tiresias 2.0, whilst also working on his debut concept album ‘Resonances’, an experimental, world music, prog exploration of humanities musical beginnings.
http://dominicmatthewsmusic.com/
We look forward to seeing you at Ealing Extranormal Volume 31
There is no bar, so please bring your own refreshments.
Please be considerate of others who may be more concerned than you regarding social distancing etc. Some participants are at increased risk from Covid, so if you are unwell on the day, rather than struggling to attend please contact the organisers for a replacement ticket for a future date.
Curated by Martin Lau www.martinlau.net