A Guildhall Live Electronics Ensemble will collaborate with composer, performer and instrument-maker Sarahsson to explore materiality in sound, electroacoustic processing and spectral improvisation
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A Guildhall Live Electronics Ensemble will collaborate with composer, performer and instrument-maker Sarahsson to explore materiality in sound, electroacoustic processing and spectral improvisation.
Working with Sarahsson's own non-traditional instruments following the sculptures of Elmar Daucher, François Baschet and Hans Reichel, they will perform electroacoustic and spectral compositions responding to amplified acoustics and rebuilding timbre. Relying on the resonant qualities of wood, steel, granite and different reflective chambers, to encourage and respond to the naturally occurring partials within different materials as they are live processed.
Guildhall Ensemble performers:
Amber Davies, Anna Latham, Eleanor Lee, Genia Isachenko, Philippa Godsalve,
Genia Isachenko will perform an improvisation with radios and transducers.
Miu Puntoomsinchai will be play the Khaen in both traditional and western styles, focusing on various approaches to creating ambient soundscape and texture through live processing.
BODIES ELECTRIC is a platform for live electronics performance and research comprised of musicians and alumni from Guildhall School’s Electronic and Produced Music department. Collaborating through live music performances to explore creative scores, evolving compositions, somatic practices and bespoke material entanglements within music expression. By conjuring tangible physical and emotional states through experimental forms and collectively constructed timbres, they aim to create rich sound worlds for both the audience and performers to immerse themselves in. The project aims to create opportunities for collaboration and ensemble performance within live electronics and electroacoustic communities, and to invite dynamic collaboration between musicians, instrument-makers, choreographers, filmmakers, and dancers.
SARAHSSON
Devonshire-born Sarahsson is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist and DJ living and working in Bristol. Inspired as much by the natural world as she is by gore and harsh noise, Sarahsson fuses elements of classical music with metal, experimental electronics and folk. Her 2022 debut album ‘The Horgenaith’ draws on personal and cultural mythologies of femininity, transition and synaesthesia.