Event details
Join us for Ealing Extranormal Volume 33. It is a monthly showcase for sonically adventurous experimental music in West London in association with OPEN Ealing.
Saturday 18 January
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:
Leon Michener
Leon Michener is a London-born pianist and composer. His unique approach to music encompasses art, video and electronics and seeks to push beyond the boundaries of what is technically and sonically possible on the traditional piano. His Klavikon project reimagines electronic music without the use of conventional processes – no loops, no prerecorded music, and no samples. Instead, all sounds, kicks, snares, bass and pads are created by preparing an amplified piano, an “acoustic workstation”, sequenced only by fingers, allowing human vagaries to triumph over quantised accuracy. Unique inventions and found objects – a custom-made pickup, a robot toy dog, vibrators, and lots of Blu-tak, augment the 88 keys delivering cascading batteries of percussion, sub-basses and dark abstract soundscapes. This amalgam of virtuosic piano technique and real-time electronic processing is at once connected with dance genres and 20th-century classical music.
https://leonmichener.bandcamp.com/
Lucia H Chung
Lucia H Chung is a Taiwanese artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where the sound creation springs from her fascinations in noise generated through no-input feedback mixing board. The volatile nature of the system and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy pouring into the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy.
Lucia’s passion lies in live performance and has regularly performed solo and with collaborators in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, including Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Krama Festival, Lisboa Soa Festival, Sanatorium of Sound Festival, Festival Electropixel and Sonorities Festival.
‘Fuzz comes alive, moving at odd angles like the sinuous threads are being chased by a series of subatomic bleeps and flashes. Tension rises as the tempo picks up, fueling the disjointed rhythmic quality within each sterile, self-contained unit.’ – Fox Digitalis
www.luciahchung.com
Brutal Dreamsound
Brutal Dreamsound is an experimental audiovisual collaboration between:
- Acoustic Survey aka Jakub Rokita Clarinet and electronics
- Anna Fairchild Cello
- Rob Flint/FLOMO: Audio and video processing
The performance is organised into three short improvisations named after three iconic London
buildings by architect Erno Goldfinger: Willow Road; Metro Central Heights, and Trellick Tower
Acoustic Survey aka Jakub Rokita is a sound installation and visual artist with work focusing on audio-responsive sound and intermedia installations.
Anna Fairchild works with sculpture, experimental camera-less photographic processes and audio visual work exploring where the two and three dimensional qualities of these merge.
Rob Flint makes audiovisual performances as FLOMO. He makes work that is curious about how the senses combine, and how human experience is directed by competing information and sensory stimuli.
https://www.annafairchild.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cmykscum/
https://www.instagram.com/flomo/
Raw Circuits
A collaboration between Cos Chapman, Martin Lau and Marina Young.
Cos Chapman plays improvised electro-acoustics: making odd sounds using electronics, contact mics, prepared guitar, found objects etc. He builds his own acoustic instruments and sound making circuits. The unpredictability of these appeals to him. He rarely plays the same thing for long, seeking to create a flow or story and making sure there’s a structure to the performance overall.
Musician and visual artist Martin Lau’s sound work involves the creation of improvised music/soundscapes using electronics and woodwinds, and attempts to connect to an expansiveness as evoked by outer space and the deep sea. His pursuit of timbre-based electronic music can be traced back to his school days. He performs under the name Flooded Access and hosts the monthly experimental music showcase Ealing Extranormal.
Marina Young explores creating sounds using synths and modified classical guitar as a solo artist and in collaboration under the moniker of PlinkPlonk Meow Meow Meow (PpMMM). She has been playing bass in punk, rock and improvisation bands and projects since the early 90s working with artists such Jowehead (Swell Maps/ TV Personalities), Dave Morgan (ATV Rockingbirds) Joss Cope (Weather Prophets), Sex Gang Children, Damo Suzuki & Faust. Current bands are SPeW, post punk/funk, The Long Decline punk/folk, Rude Mechanicals dark cabaret.
www.coschapman.com
https://linktr.ee/martin.lau
We look forward to seeing you at Ealing Extranormal Volume 33
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