EVENT CANCELLED – Experiments with sound for music [EVENT CANCELLED]

We are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled at short notice. Sincere apologies for any inconvenience caused.

What: A concert curated by Dr Tom Mudd featuring performances by Semay Wu, Marlo de Lara, Akira Brown and Jim Reeve-Baker.

Each artist in tonight’s gig experiments with sound to craft music, yet each performer/composer uses the outputs of their experiments for radically different reasons.

Marlo De Lara

Marlo De Lara is the 2023 RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow at IASH. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, artist Marlo De Lara received a PhD in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and an MA in Psychosocial Studies at the Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex. Her practice works within the realms of sound performance, visual distraction, and film. Her textural compositions develop from microscopic tone landscapes into dense and expansive states of noise. Her works aim to blur the definitions of the (un)intentional and the myth of permanence. Using found objects, installation, and various forms of amplification, environments/structures use sound to impart meaning and affect for the participant. As the child of Philippine migrants of the ‘brain drain’ coming of age, De Lara’s unabashed feminist sociopolitical practice/research editorializes on contemporary global conditions. Her investigations on art collectives and creative work as political action fuels Ladyz in Noyz, an international arts collective that promotes emerging artists/musicians who are women. Her research relates to feminism, representation of marginalized populations particularly within sound and music, and creative work as political action and she provides workshops relating to sound practices and hardware, DIY collectives, and narratives as creatively productive political possibility.

www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-marlo-de-lara

Jim Reeve-Baker

Jim Reeve-Baker is an electronic composer concerned with musical material created through technological failure with particular interested in interactive and dynamic relationships between signal and noise. He has recently completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh wherein his practice-based research was concerned with the production and properties of MP3 data compression artefacts for the purpose of composing a portfolio of music. This music has been presented at festivals and conferences, including Sonorities Festival, Dialogues Festival, xCoAx, and Noisefloor and has recently been released on the label Superpang.

jimreeve-baker.bandcamp.com/album/cascaded-music-electronic-works-and-interludes

Akira Brown

Akira Brown is an electronic music composer, performer, programmer and lecturer based in England. After self-releasing two EPs containing studies of Cartesian synthesis, Akira’s algorithmic modular synthesizer tracks have featured on electronic music labels Superpang and New York Haunted (as Nd:YAG), with recent ambient pieces released through Rusted Tone Recordings. Besides a keen interest in the mechanics of synthesis and sound, Akira’s music is deeply influenced by the phenomenological experience of natural and man-made environments, with each release based upon an individual theme informed by visual and textural elements and locations.

akirasileas.bandcamp.com/

Semay Wu

Semay Wu -she/her- works as a composer, cellist/improviser, and media/sound artist. Greatly influenced by improvisational frameworks, Semay builds on interdisciplinary relationships through collaboration and spontaneity. Semay is also driven by a visual perspective, to encourage ideas for texture and ‘play’. Alongside performing, recent composed works have developed as video pieces, performance/interactive-installations, graphic scores, as well as working with communities for online digital presentations.

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