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A night of soundscapes, improvisation and sonic art in an atmospheric and receptive environment curated by Kailas Elmer and Martin A. Smith. Featuring: Ambient, drone, electronica, IDM, future sounds, electro acoustic, and sound art performers.

Signals:

Signals was formed by Chris Gowers (Karina ESP, Evelyn Records) and Phil Julian (Cheapmachines, Authorised Version) during summer 2004, initially to work on collaborative performance for the 2004 London Headphone Festival.

During November 2005, Mark Beazley of Rothko joined Signals to play live as part of the on-going Evelyn Records evenings in London, cementing the core line-up.

The trio’s live performance’s consist of 15 to 20 minute drone and melody explorations, utilizing bowed and effected guitar, live laptop manipulations and sampling, bowed ceremonial bowls and effected bass guitar.
http://www.tracerecordings.com

Iris Garrelfs:

Iris Garrelfs is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmuted into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magzine put it.

Described as the Diamanda Galas of Glitch, Iris’ training into creating through voice began very early on. Her parents sang in the village choir, and would often practice at home with Iris making up new melodies, 2nd and 3rd voices to whatever was being sung. She got into the attractions of technology as a teenager, stumbling across her dad’s pulp si-fi magazines. Iris is still waiting for an implant that will siphon off her sonic nerve impulses, fragments of melody, rhythm and correlation floating around in her body and brain. A vital part of her work, be it using voice or other sound material, is improvisation and the use of random elements, the ephemeral fragility and risk implied in giving up control to me moment, a sonic singularity.

Iris performs solo as well as in collaboration with other artists, for example Robert Lippok (To Rococo Rot), Kaffe Matthews, Scanner, Si-cut.db and others. She also performs with the improvising group Symbiosis Orchestra. Recording collaborations include si-cut.db and Freeform - the latter has beeng re-released as part of the Bernt Friedman compiled and remixed compilation "Condensed" on Nonplace

The recent album Specified Encounters, released on the French label Bip-Hop, has been moulded from dissected voice sounds. Her new release on the other hand, fresh of the press, is her first ever 10" vinyl piece, the radio project "(Talking) Space To Space" on the German art-label lich-tung, uses no voices at all. She is currently working on a globe-spanning "(Talking) Space To Space" installation and is very much looking forward to a residency at the Mexican Centre for Music and Soundart in 2007.
http://www.irisgarrelfs.com/

TICKETS £5 (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/74145)

Isnaj Dui:

Standing somewhere between modern classical and electronica, Isnaj Dui (real name Katie English) conveys a minimal yet capturing sound using electronically manipulated flutes and homemade instruments. With three solo releases on her own FBox Records as well as Amacrine on Smallfish (2007) and Unstable Equilibrium on Home Normal (2009), English has gained a solid reputation as both a live performer and recording artist. She has appeared at venues such as the National Portrait Gallery and Union Chapel in London and has been played on Radio 3's Late Junction and Arctic Circle Radio.

As a classically trained flautist, Katie uses concert and bass flutes alongside various home made instruments, with live manipulation using an effects and looping device. Through studies in electroacoustic music, alternative tunings and Javanese Gamelan as well as her classical work, Katie has fused together many styles to create a unique sound, infusing tranquil melodies with a dark edge. Keith Moline of Wire writes of 2007s 'Patterns In Rocks' '...English manages to take the [flute] into darker realms while maintaining a lovely, sleepy languor.

As well as her solo work Isnaj Dui performs live and on recordings with various artists including Konntinent and Orla Wren.

Boomkat (an album of the week) 'Absolutely gorgeous music and a big recommendation for followers of this excellent label and good music everywhere.'

Smallfish (recommended) 'Truly a delight to listen to and something that is both familiar and strangely exotic sounding. You’re unlikely to hear another album quite like this in the near future and for that we must be thankful that Isnaj Dui is out there doing her own thing.'

Textura November 2009 '...an oft-beautiful exercise in sensuous tone-painting that, in seemingly effortless manner, not only distinguishes itself from the competition but establishes Isnaj Dui as a distinctive artistic voice.'
http://www.myspace.com/isnajdui

for those curious about how signals sounds like:
http://morczine.tumblr.com/

Also, should point out that Signals is not a Rothko spin off... but an awesome entity all its own. Rothko is very cool though.