Our second evening is given over to the fascination of rhythm and the bleeding edges of electronic music; featuring London-based digital musician Lolina; extended media artist Speaker Music; and kinetic sound sculptor Sunk Heaven. Tickets available now.
Lolina is an electronic and digital musician, also known for her past projects as Inga Copeland. She was a member of the band Hype Williams between 2009 and 2013, collaborating with Dean Blunt on music, videos and performances. Copeland’s first solo album “Because I’m Worth It” was self-released in 2014. Moving towards digital composition with her Lolina project, she released a full-length video album “Live in Paris” in 2016, followed by “The Smoke” in 2018. Lolina’s live performances evolved through experiments with DJ equipment. Using CDJ players to loop, scratch and manipulate her existing recordings, she developed an improvisational cut up style exemplified on her releases “Live in Geneva”, “Who is experimental music?” (both 2019), and “Fast Fashion” (released on experimental US label, Deathbomb Arc in 2021). Lolina’s three-part radio residency aired on NTS in November 2020. Her most recent album, “Face The Music” was released in September 2022 on Lolina’s own label Relaxin Records.
DeForrest Brown, Jr. is an Alabama-raised rhythmanalyst, writer, and representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. As Speaker Music, he channels the African American modernist tradition of rhythm and soul music as an intellectual site and sound of techno-vernacular expression. On September 8th, 2023, he will be releasing his new album Techxodus on Planet Mu. His written work explores the links between the Black experience in industrialized labor systems and Black innovation in electronic music, and has appeared in Artforum, Triple Canopy, NPR, CTM Festival, Mixmag, among many others. He has performed or presented work at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Paris+ par Art Basel, Paris; Camden Arts Centre, London; Unsound Festival, Krakow; Sónar, Barcelona; Roulette, New York; and elsewhere. Assembling a Black Counter Culture is Brown’s debut book.
Sunk Heaven was founded in 2012 by experimental musician Austin Sley Julian. Based in performance, no input mixers, and synthesizers, Sunk Heaven has used the stretches of sonic extremity to produce elegant ret self destructing soundscapes. Through these sonic environments emerge rhythm and poetry where song lives. Austin Sley Julian’s previous work in the groups Sediment Club and Signal Break lead his musical career towards pushing the limits of instrumentation and building homemade instruments to electronic conversation.
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
Entrance to the Gallery is by the side door, accessed by Gomez Street, with a ramp into the main gallery. The door is not power assisted but a volunteer will be working the door.
The gallery has a cement floor that is flat. The gallery and main floor bathroom are accessible to wheelchair users. The second level of the exhibition space is not accessible by wheelchair, having eleven steps from the main floor up to the second floor.
There are two gender neutral, single occupant bathrooms upstairs and one gender neutral, single occupant wheelchair accessible washroom on the main floor of the gallery.
This evening’s performances involve the use of fog machine.
Masking is recommended and masks will be provided at the door.