Ships

A radiophrenia commision. Ships by laps.

Thinking about how people are like ships. We carry heavy loads, we come and go, we have names, people can be each other’s ships and of course ships go under.

Sadder/weirder domain and less pop as our last record was.
Lamentations and anger.

A work that mixes the more traditional ‘song’ format with recordings of conversations and field recordings that delve into the collective and separate experiences of two friends and artists.

A celebration of the relationship and working methods of artists and friends Alicia Matthews and Cass Ezeji. Using a selection of archive and new recordings (including Whats App voice notes, past rehearsal sessions, new studio work and downtime at the baths) the women candidly illustrate a long-standing friendship and creative working bond. Together they explore shared and separate life experiences and journeys; using laughter, chatting and singing together as healing forces.

Of All Hours

Of ALL HOURS. SOUND DESIGN & LIVE PERFORMANCE. LAPS x HAL DUNCAN. OTHER WORLDS ALREADY EXIST, ARIKA, GLASGOW TRAMWAY, OCT 2017.

Mashed up queer fantasy of worker’s revolts, biblical demons and present-day hells, and dubbed out cyborg-electro.

What present stories might help us generate different futures?

4 days of performances, discussions, workshops, screenings with mutant dancers, prison abolitionist poets, transfeminist revolutionaries, haunted noise, science fiction, sex worker resistance, crip erotics, radical pornography and militant fiction.

With: Samuel R. Delany, Huw Lemmey, Storyboard P, Moor Mother, Hal Duncan, KUCHENGA, Nat Raha, Jackie Wang, Dj@Christelle, DJ D-Harsh, Nena Etza, LAPS, Wu Tsang, boychild, Robert Softley Gale, Maxine Meighan, SWARM (Sex Workers’ Advocacy & Resistance Movement) and Sgàire Wood

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Relocate / Ath-ghluasad

Commissioned by Feral Arts and supported by Creative Scotland, Renfrewshire Leisure and Future Paisley.

Relocate was designed for headphones and to be experienced by the listener at home during specific moments or situations in their day.

“As the artist prepares to move from her long-term home city of Glasgow to the Outer Hebrides, she explores the idea of home and the notion of re-location. How do we locate ourselves in mutable surroundings and what constitutes home? Using the verb to “relocate” as a structure to explore text and sound, the artist will create a piece, which weaves personal memories of place and people with spoken word, field recording & electronic sound.”

Please get in touch if you’d like to listen.

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illustration by bruno gallagher

Clickbait

This work devised for a Radiophrenia x Resonance Extra/ Jerwood Foundation commission is a 19 minute sound piece that explores the tensions and experience of extensive use of social media, hand held devices and digital dissemination of information.


I utilised screen captures of my ‘online journeys’ while to create scores from. The sonic narrative of these works echo the jarring imagery that was sought out as a result of my low concentration span and complicity within the distractions of the web.


Inspiration for the sounds featured within the composition include: monitor refresh rates, loading and buffering rates, the speed at which information is sent and received, malfunctions, scrolling rates, 140 character limitations and push notifications. I reimagined these elements sonically as well as using recorded samples to form the tonal palette of the piece.

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Liquid Sky

"LIQUID SKY is a new piece of visual theatre exploring the interface between sonic art and aerial circus, within a laser light scenography. Titled as an homage to the cult 80s movie and a famous laser visual effect, the performance takes inspiration from Doris Lessing’s feminist Sci Fi novel ‘The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five’ about an epic escape to enlightenment.”

Audiences are immersed in an otherworldly environment that sits between an AV concert and a live art happening. Hypnotic and ritualised movement on the ground and in the air is paired with a ‘Dark wave’ live set from Alicia Matthews (SUE ZUKI), whose throbbing synthetic hymns and mesmeric vocals will raise the congregation into a fizzing euphoria"

Liquid Sky premiered at Take Me Somewhere, Tramway Glasgow in 2018.
It was developed in conjunction with Feral, MHz Productions, Take Me Somewhere, Creative Scotland, Cirkus Cirkor and Arts Council Sweden.

Director: Bex Anson Aerial: Aedin Walsh, Lasers & set design: Jack Wrigley Sound: Alcia Matthews Lights: Dav Bernard Rigging: Saul Baum

Photos: Jack Wrigley & SpudD

Torrefy

In collaboration with Robbie Thomson. Funded by Arts Council England.

‘Torrefy’ is an installation created for ‘Up is a Relative Concept ‘ at Fold, London The work is a physical extension of ‘Rottinghuis’ - an audiovisual performance developed on residency at Grand Theatre, Groningen during 2018.

‘Torrefy’ attempts to reveal an everyday violence of familiarity and routine, an aggression acted out in insidious and anonymous ways; domestic exile.

Drawing on research into hauntology, alchemy and psychophysical anomalies this work languishes in the interstitial world of our phantasies and projected digital selves.

Staged in one of Fold’s studio spaces, this intimate installation (2 x parabolic directional speakers and 1x sonic resonator installed on perspex) is intended for small audience groups who will experience an automated tableaux of sound design, lighting and kinetic modern iconographies.

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