Sunday 12 February 2017, 7.30pm
Lullabies For Insomniacs presents Air Cushion Finish.
With support from Daniel Hayhurst & Reuben Sutherland (Sculpture)
Air Cushion Finish formed in Berlin in 2007 and comprises of composer/player jayrope and natural vocal synthesizer Lippstueck, who have enjoyed playing in Berlin’s underground together since the 1990’s. After seven albums and following a friendly invitation by members of GY!BE, they recorded at Montreal’s renowned Hotel2Tango studio with Thierry Amar in 2014.
Flink was the result of this session, an immersively psychedelic (sweet, rather than head-frying) world unto themselves, sensitively placing Lippstueck’s flighty vox – which range from Schwitters-esque gibber to avian and ecclesiastical runs – drifting around the centre of a sound sphere pieced together from intricately laced rhythmic mechanisms, reverberant dub basses and insectoid blues.
Sculpture combines unstable electronic music, animation and video art in transitory audiovisual forms. During a live AV set by Sculpture, genre tropes, temporal signs and perceptual associations are reconfigured in the moment, seeking multisensory overload. A volatile simultaneity links the duo’s visual turntablism and metamorphic sound. With a camera mounted on a Technics turntable and a chaotic library of zoetropic prints, visual artist Reuben Sutherland combines animation, tactile photo collage, and cutting-edge digital technique in hyperkinetic patterns and op-art cuts. On sonics, musician Dan Hayhurst misuses samplers, tape loops, cassette players and CDJ decks to create an analogue/digital hybrid of outsider pop, experimental composition and improvised splatter.
Sculpture formed as a duo for an unrehearsed performance in 2008. They have since played worldwide and released polymedia byproducts on labels including
