MADE EVENTS PRESENTS: ELECTRIC SOUP III

Swansea Laptop Orchestra | Ani Glass | Boris a Bono | & Friends

Presented by: CardiffM.A.D.E. CIC

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0	CARDIFF: M.A.D.E gallery, cafe and shop
P	Saturday 4th March, 2017
N	7:00pm

Event information

MADE Events is proud to present Electric Soup III - A sonic mix of performances across the spectrum of ‘electronic music’. Improvisation, collaboration and experimentation are highly encouraged between artists during the event, marking a further contribution to South Wales’ healthy, and rapidly expanding, experimental music scene; again demonstrating Cardiff MADE gallery as a hub for contemporary arts in Wales’ capital.

Tickets:

Available through Cardiff MADE gallery

Phone: 029 2047 3373 (Wed - Sat between 10am - 6pm)
Email: cardiffmade.events@gmail.com
Online: We got tickets

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Artists:

& Friends

7.30pm – 8pm

& friends is Simon and Ed, two friends who share a preoccupation with folk music, synthesisers and reality TV. These two friends like to collaborate with other friends, who, while not strictly in & friends, are friendly enough to lend their talents through art, poetry, film and a range of other art forms.

Two fifths of their catalogue is Christmas songs, which is wildly inconvenient for 11 months of the year. They promise they won’t bring their sleigh bells.

www.facebook.com/musicbyfriends

www.musicbyfriends.bandcamp.com

www.soundcloud.com/musicbyfriends

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Boris a Bono

8.15pm – 8.45pm

Boris a Bono's songs are the soundtrack to a dream that you never want to wake up from, this is music for hibernating. Burrowing his way further into the soundscape that he mapped out on his first EP, the tracks on ‘Epoch’, his new release, are archetypal notes from the underground; an audio-wonderland where electronic pulses, delicate rhythms, hushed vocals and hazy acoustics stream together in Boris a Bono’s free-associative, chimerical consciousness. This is magic realism for the ears, where music and dreaming are folded into a new sonic imaginary.

http://borisabonomusic.tumblr.com/

https://culdesacrecords.bandcamp.com/album/epoch

www.soundcloud.com/borisabono-1

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Ani Glass

9pm – 9.30pm

Ani Glass is the persona of Cardiff-based electronic pop musician, producer, artist and photographer, Ani Saunders. Fiercely proud of her heritage, Glass sings in her native languages Welsh and Cornish and last year released Y Ddawns, the first single from her upcoming EP Ffrwydrad Tawel.

“Y Ddawns is a double-edged sword that's as stern as it is hopeful; music for the end of the world, and the start of a new one." Laura Snapes – Pitchfork

"Perfect Euro pop!" Bethan Elfyn - BBC Radio Wales

Ani recently collaborated with international Welsh artist Ivor Davies and is currently working on an EP inspired by his exhibition Silent Explosion/Ffrwydrad Tawel.

https://soundcloud.com/aniglass

https://www.facebook.com/aniglasscymru/

https://aniglass.bandcamp.com/

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Swansea Laptop Orchestra

9.45pm – 10.15pm

Swansea Laptop Orchestra use hacked game controllers, laptops, sensors and other bits of tech and non-tech, to create and perform experimental, classical,
electroacoustic and electronic music. Controllers are used to track the performers' gestures and theatrical movements, bringing a unique physicality to electronic music and creating a symbiotic audio-visual experience. “The expressive gestures that they made appeared to influence the sound – whether sweepingly circular, or a mysterious passing, or wringing of hands." Swanlork aim to push the boundaries of performance in electronic music.

Jenn Kirby is a composer, performer, software developer and academic based in Swansea. She holds a PhD in Composition from Trinity College Dublin. Her work ranges from instrumental composition, to electroacoustic, to laptop orchestra and the performance of live electronics, sound art and performance art. Jenn's work explores elements of theatricality, humour and subversion. Jenn works as the Programme Director for Music Performance and Production at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

www.jennkirby.com

Simon Kilshaw is a composer, performer, sonic artist, songwriter, producer, software designer, inventor and instrument builder, systems programmer, Digital Creator through coding. Simon invents new musical instruments using a wide variety of digital technologies, from sensors and tracking hardware to pure coded environments, and composes new repertoire for them. Simon has developed a range of instruments and compositional tools for the creation of new musical works. In this way, Simon describes his research as "Digital Lutherie". Simon's recent work has been in the development of bespoke audio system extensions for the Unity Game Engine. Simon is the Programme Director for Music Technology at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His work is inspired by the early 20th century pioneers of electronic noise machines, particularly the Italian Futurist movement.

www.simonkilshaw.com

Paul Hazel is a musician, composer, and record producer with many releases on the Rising High, Rotation, Inspiral, Instinct, 2Kool, and Masters At Work labels. He composed and produced the music for the short films Shore Leave and The Dirt Inside, the Canal+ documentary La Ñ En La Araña, and a theme for Channel 5 TV. Paul is the Head of School of Film and Digital Media at University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

www.paulhazel.com

www.facebook.com/SwanseaLaptopOrchestra