Tuesday 1 August 2023, 7.30pm
Great triple-bill featuring Torino-based sound artist, Lorenzo Abattoir, UK sound artist, Simon Whetham, and lu:wn, the duo of Taiwanese experimental artist, Lucia H Chung and London-based artist, Dawn Scarfe.
Lorenzo Abattoir is a sound artist based in Torino (IT). A key element of his work is the relationship between spiritual practices and unusual methods of audio processing, mainly focusing on the use of microphones as a medium for the amplification of an act. He explores the boundaries between sound and noise using breathing techniques, bodily sounds and different kinds of amplified objects as instruments to structures his performances. During past years he recorded and released collaborative works with: Hermann Kopp, Phurpa, Giovanni Lami, Satori and played live performances in EU and USA. He also works in the contemporary art field creating sound installations and composing soundtracks for theatre. His last two album have been published on American labels Dinzu Artefacts and Flag Day Recordings.
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has been exploring aspects of sound as a material for creation, unearthing obscured environmental sonic phenomena, acoustics and resonance, sonic energy and transduction. His projects are increasingly multi-disciplinary, becoming more visual, performative and tangible, exploring physical sound traces and transforming energy forms.
Whetham participates in various international artist residencies, and performs and exhibits internationally, presenting works in MA/IN Festival 2022 (IT), MFRU 2022 (SI), NEXT Festival 2021 (SK), Electric Spring 2020 (UK), In Vitrø 2019 (IT), Fresh Winds Biennale 2018 & 2016 (IS), Nakanojo Biennale 2017 (JP), Tsonami Festival 2017 & 2012 (CL), Tsukuba Art Center 2014, 2015 and 2016 (JP), Madeiradig 2010 & 2011 (PT) and Moers Festival 2011 (DE).
Published works have been released through Kohlhaas, Line, Crónica, Misanthropic Agenda and Falt.
https://www.simonwhetham.co.uk/
https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/
Lucia H Chung is a Taiwanese artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where the sound creation springs from her fascinations in noise generated through no-input feedback mixing board. The volatile nature of the system and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy pouring into the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy.
Lucia’s passion lies in live performance and has regularly performed solo and with collaborators in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, including Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Krama Festival, Lisboa Soa Festival, Sanatorium of Sound Festival and Festival Electropixel.
‘Fuzz comes alive, moving at odd angles like the sinuous threads are being chased by a series of subatomic bleeps and flashes. Tension rises as the tempo picks up, fueling the disjointed rhythmic quality within each sterile, self-contained unit.’ – Fox Digitalis
Dawn Scarfe is an artist based in London working with field recording, sound installation and performance. Her work explores things that seem to sound themselves such as resonating glasses, aeolian wires and self-opening swell boxes.
Dawn has collaborated with Ryoko Akama, Jem Finer, Jiyeon Kim and Volkhardt Müller. She works with soundCamp to organise Reveil: an annual crowd sourced live broadcast which tracks the sound of the sunrise around the world for 24hrs. Her work has been aired on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. She has exhibited at ZKM Karlsruhe, Q-02 Brussels and New Mart, Seoul. Residencies include Sound and Music’s Embedded programme with Forestry Commission England, MoKS Centre for Art and Social Practice, Estonia, TOPOS Exeter and Octopus Collective with Cumbria Wildlife Trust at South Walney, Cumbria. Commissions include Organ Reframed, Union Chapel, Continuous Drift, Dublin and Tonspur MuseumsQuartier Vienna.
