Aisha Orazbayeva

Kazakh violinist Aisha Orazbayeva is renowned for her fearless interpretations of contemporary music and radical approach to early repertoire. She has released four critically acclaimed solo albums with music ranging from her own compositions to Telemann and Sciarrino, the New Yorker describing her "Music for VIolin Alone" album as "unanimity of head, heart and hands". She has performed internationally in venues such as New York’s Carnegie Hall, HAU2 Berlin, Corum Montpellier for Radio France and Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe. In 2022 together with harpsichordist Prach Boondiskulchok Aisha performed all of Biber's Mystery Sonatas at the Spitalfields Festival in London.

As a composer she has written music for dance, theatre and film, including OUR SOLO a collaboration with ECCE dance company (touring in 2023 - 2024), Heartbreaking Final written with Tim Etchells and commissioned by Wiener Festwochen 2021, the piece was later performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Aisha is a member of ICTUS ensemble in Brussels.

Photo by Dimitri Djuric

Tim Etchells

Tim Etchells (1962) is an artist and writer based in the UK whose experimental work with language shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned Sheffield-based performance group Forced Entertainment and in collaboration with a wide range of musicians, artists and performance makers including Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Marino Formenti, Taus Mahakacheva, Vlatka Horvat, Ant Hampton, Aisha Orazbayeva and Elmgreen & Dragset.

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TIBSLC

Leipzig based TIBSLC (The International Billionaire's Secret Love Child) sculpts hazily ambiguous but meticulously detailed sounds hypersensitive to nanoscopic movements and fleeting midnight feels. Blending subtle environmental recordings with processed digital noise and feedback. TIBSLC’s work is distinguished by an arcing narrative quality that emerges across its yawning spaces, each viewed by perspectives ranging from lofty, birds-eye to more intimate and voyeuristic. (Boomkat)“

They focus on the interweaving of personal and spatial relationships in the spatial audio live- performance “Light Rain And Distant Dogs” (ZiMMT, Leipzig, 2021), and in “The Ever Changing Always Staying The Same” (2019, Leipzig), a six-hour electro-acoustic solo live performance in which the limits of installation-performance and the points of contact between sound, space and audience are explored - the sound-environment of six different rooms are controlled and altered at the same time.

In 2021 they released their debut LP - “Delusive Tongue Shifts / Situation Based Compositions” on Manchester based label sferic. “It is a mottled expanse of shimmer and hum: weightless as a sigh, splotchy as a bruise, cozy and unsettling in equal measure.“ (Pitchfork)

Jack Sheen

Jack Sheen is a composer and conductor from Manchester whose music ranges from concert works for orchestras to immersive loud-speaker and performance-installations.

Alongside 'Sub', recent projects include a sound-installation for the Venice Biennale Musica featuring Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, a four-hour work for Casa de Serralves (Porto) for 50 voices and ensemble, and conducting Matthew Barney & Jonathan Bepler’s large-scale interdisciplinary performance 'Catasterism in Three Movements', commissioned by Basel’s Schaulager. In 2022 he will return to perform at Lucerne Festival and Tanglewood Music Centre (USA), and work with the Royal Opera House, London Sinfonietta, London Contemporary Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and Ensemble 10/10.

Jack has written music for ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Apartment House, Les Métaboles, and EXAUDI. As a conductor, the last year saw Jack make his debut with the LSO, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta, Britten Sinfonia, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, and FontanaMIX Ensemble in diverse programmes including premieres of his own music.

He is the Co-Director of London Contemporary Music Festival (‘the capital’s most adventurous and ambitious festival of new music’, The Guardian; ‘London’s most important festival’, The Wire) which returns 15–19 June 2022 at Woolwich Works.

Adrian Corker

Adrian Corker is a musician and composer who has written extensively to picture, having first worked with director Antonia Bird. He also co-wrote/wrote the music for both films by cinematographer/director Florian Hoffmeister, Three Degree Colder and The Have-Nots.  Recent artist releases include Music for Lock Grooves in 2019 and Since it Turned Out Something Else 2021, featuring Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Ligeti Quartet and Takuma Watanabe amongst others. In 2023, he also with Watanabe, created The Impossible Balance (Transformations) a multi-channel sound piece for Mode Festival in Tokyo.  He has collaborated with musicians and artists such as Chris Watson, Jack Wyllie and Richard Skelton.  He set up SN Variations in 2014 and co-founded sister label Constructive in 2020. A new label Bad Info is currently rereleasing music from Corker Conboy. a post-rock project from the 00s he was a member of.

Photo by Cristiano Diamanti