Xolo

Octophonic night hosted by Xolo

Friday 27th September 2023

7pm-11pm At

The Bath House,

80 Eastway, Hackney Wick, London E9 5JH

This event brings together musicians and visual artists to explore the merging of human presence with digital processes. In a world shaped by technology, adding a bit of flesh is irresistable. Using body scans as visual material, the performance reflects on the innate pull to reintroduce the human form into digital spaces. It examines how technology, while driving us into new territories, still calls for traces of the physical—an ever-present reminder that we are human. This evening is an interrogation on the increasingly intertwined relationship between human beings and the tools we create, offering a space to consider how technology both shapes and is shaped by us.

Georgina Brett

Georgina Brett is a composer and event organiser. After studying an MA in Electroacoustic composition under Jonty Harrison she went on to produce cd’s of binaural recordings from eco-festivals. In 2003 she began making vocal live-looping collages/improvisations/compositions and has composed many albums exploring a range of ideas and musical challenges for mono-choir. She began Tuesdays Post : Live Progressive Ambient in 2012 to promote artists creating music on the cusp of electro-acoustic and ambient styles. Having gained a fascination for surround sound spatial music at undergraduate level she has curated a number of multispeaker concerts in London over the years. Since 2017 Georgina has enjoyed performing live vocal-looping and on the oboe in improvised music ensembles, including many duos and trios at various London arthouse venues and performing in The London Improvisers Orchestra.

Edward I have run the XOLO event series for the past 6 years at various venues. I am also currently part of the AMOENUS team and a member of the Infinite Monkeys, where I misbehave. I also perform as OLO. For this event I will be making noises and eating bananas live alongside

Monkey Rob.

Monkey Rob Member of the Infinite Monkeys collective. Architect, DJ, Field Recording Aficionado, Speeches Excerpts Devotee, and Sound Artist. Also running POSITIVLAND record label. His favourite bananas are always from Canary islands. After a thorough grooming, the insulation value of his pelt increases by as much as 50 percent. Monkey Rob will be available for adoption, please consider adopting Monkey Rob, and bring him to your home after the show. Feel free to feed Monkey Rob during the show, he will be very grateful to receive a banana, or even a gin and tonic

Blackhawk::N471v3

Blackhawk::N471v3 Andrea Esther Kerecsen, a mostly London based programmer and artist, “infected and corrupted” by the live events industry. Living behind the scenes, working in the shadow on heavy backends and backlines, but sometimes the pull of the spotlights are too hard. Blackhawk::N471v3 is a project name, connecting the ancient past with modern days, making scaffolds, structures, patterns, manifolds to use, visuals to listen to, soundscapes to watch. Tonight is not an invitation. Its a journey through weird dimensions and weird lives, following the echoes of tomorrow. Old pieces and shards in new, sharp, cutting light. Dancing on nerves and bones, exploring the void. We are on the track. Destination: unknown.

SzIO

SzIO (aka Krisztian), is a sound artist who’s been living and breathing East London’s inspiring atmosphere and contradictions for the last 10 years, going as Szl0, organically weaves together live improvs, tape recordings and chopped elements to build a textured soundscape. Soak up the thick, dark bass-lines layered with micro percussions and melodic synth waves. An industrial dissonant landscape is created, and is still under creation, using guitar pedals as an effect.

Liqvitsky

Liqvitsky emerged from the dissolution of reality, a narrative-driven audiovisual collective from North London. The artist traverses the territory between recorded and synthetic sound, and exploits tension between free form and sequencer. Liqvitsky assembles field recordings into rhythmic patterns, wrings haphazard sounds out of loops, and draws the signal through a tangle of randomising and mutilating effects. The result is as unpredictable as voices in the crowd. Liqvitsky refers to his output as sonic prose.

Merkaba Macabre

Merkaba Macabre is a multimedia project by Steven McInerney, combining film, digital projection and sound spatialisation to create experimental films, live performances and installations. McInerney’s work draws upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Live performances utilise multi-channel and real-time feedback systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, speculative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction. McInerney is the founder of Psyché Tropes, an interdisciplinary platform for media archaeological research and publication, with a monthly radio programme on Resonance 104.4 FM.

Egle Saka

Egle Saka, a London-based graphic and video artist, with a creative practice in analog aesthetics, and new media art. She captures the nuanced textures within glitches, noise, and manipulated audio-visual signals, inviting contemplation of imperfections’ beauty. Her portfolio spans analog and digital video, sound art, site-specific projections, and live audio-visual performances. Holding a BA degree in visual arts and printmaking, she produces graphics, album covers, and print designs. Additionally, she does video editing, analog visual effects, and produces experimental music videos and visualizers for various global record labels. Egle’s work is featured in experimental art venues like IKLECTIK, New River Studios, and esteemed galleries such as Saatchi and Jealous, both in the UK and internationally.

Vytautas Niedvaras

Vytautas Niedvaras is a London-based visual artist and creative technologist focusing on interactive moving images. As the co-founder of Distance Anatomy, he specializes in real-time motion capture, networking, and visualization, enabling synchronized performances and interactive storytelling across distances.