Working with somatic therapy, dream theory and physical space, damsel Elysium and a Guildhall Live Electronics Ensemble will explore the conditions of invisible structures to build and express new sonic objects. Investigating how to use these objects as sacred materials and tools of metaphysical excavation.
Doors 7pm
Tickets: Free
Working with somatic therapy, dream theory and physical space, damsel Elysium and a Guildhall Live Electronics Ensemble will explore the conditions of invisible structures to build and express new sonic objects. Investigating how to use these objects as sacred materials and tools of metaphysical excavation.
Guildhall Ensemble performers:
Amberant, American Artist, nitamortei, VERA SACRA, Philippa Godsalve, Miu Puntoomsinchai, Freya Wang
Opening Sets:
Annie Elena is a Cornish sound artist exploring voice as a shifting, otherworldly texture, where body and machine intertwine through self-built wearable electronics.
Shams & Electrum share a ritual for contrabass recorder and live electronics.
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. Programming live music performances that explore creative scores, evolving compositions, somatic practices and bespoke material entanglements within music expression. The project aims to create opportunities for collaboration and ensemble performance within live electronics and electroacoustic communities, and to invite dynamic exchange between musicians, composers, instrument-makers and multidisciplinary artists.
damsel Elysium is the mediator of Daēdah, a storm chaser, hypnagogic architect, and augur. Their main purpose is to bear witness, mediate and activate through mythos-making, welding with sound, light, subtle energy and embodied strategic dream blue prints.
Their dedication to working with the foundational elements of fire, earth, water and air, they alchemise and draw attention to minute details and initiate alternative realities. They collaborate with nature and the manmade becoming a vessel for metaphysical expression and the performative object. Their craft draws from somatic technique and anti-colonial theory, constantly evolving and learning.
Through performance, film and object crafting, they explore the boundaries of ritual and movement as preverbal communication, unravelling truths and stories that only amalgamate between space, finding rhythm in air and transforming it.
Their first record released on AD 93, and through sonic mediums, they play with the seismic and the meteorological, creating maximalist tension through traditional instruments such as the violin, double bass, clarinet, piano and cello. More recently their voice has fuelled their work, using the voice as an instrument of phonetical discovery.