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surround sound performances by Emerging London Sound Artists 2009.

8 channel composition exploring a dystopic science fiction encounter by Andrew Brand

Non - standard synthesis performance by Jon Hawken

Representation of silence and noise using traditional concepts from eastern philosophy - improvisation by Wenbo Huang
www.myspace.com/wenboh
Improvisation set for voice and guitar by multi-instrumentalist Taigen Kawabe
http://www.myspace.com/taigenkawabe
Surround sound violin composition by violinist/composer Lina Lapelyte
http://www.myspace.com/lapelyte
Interactive dance performance by sound artist Alberto Ruiz & contemporary dancer Aurea Romero

Andrew Brand is a DJ/producer and sound artist specialising in sound for film and multi channel composition. On the night he will exhibit an 8 channel composition exploring a dystopic science fiction encounter, with rapid textural shifts, harsh timbres and dramatic gestures.

Jon Hawken is a computer musician and sound artist, working with various forms of non-standard synthesis.

Wenbo Huang is a sound practioner who has been interested in electroacoustic and improvised music in a different perspectives.
He focuses on representing silence, sound and noise by using traditional philosophy and aesthetics like the concept of 'ma' (a metaphysical concept of space) and the concept of "without action" in Taoism. His electroacoustic music is considered as the combination of extreme quietness and loudness and he also have been exploring the relation between single sound and silence in his improvised music.
www.myspace.com/wenboh

Taigen Kawabe is a composer/sound designer, who is currently involved in London- based Japanese Psychedelic Rock Band called "Boningen" as a singer/bass player. In his solo performance, he improvises with his voice and guitar to represent fragment of the past memories and feelings to build new soundscapes. Improvisation is a self-
purification for himself.
http://www.myspace.com/taigenkawabe
http://www.myspace.com/boningen

Lina Lapelyte lives and works in Vilnius and London.

Lina is as a sound artist and composer, performs live using violin and electronics. Her work encompasses sound installations, concert works, scores for dance, theater and film. One of her field of interests is collecting information and changing its meaning by putting it into a different context. Many of her sound installations are site specific and deal with the evoking of a sense of place through its own live input – people, their voices, nature, kinetic energy. She is a composer and performer in the laptop quartet 20,21- the ensemble devoted to the performances of graphical notation scores. She collaborated with artists Violet, Douglas Benford, Arturas Bumsteinas, Edie Prevost, Anton Lukoszevietze, David Ryan, Enrico Glerean. Recently she has been composing multi-channel electroacoustic violin pieces for her debut album.
http://www.myspace.com/lapelyte

Alberto Ruiz (sound artist) & Aurea Romero (contemporary dancer) will present an interactive sound and dance performance QBIQL-Art.

QBIQL-Art is a performance piece exploring how its various elements interact inside a certain reality. Some elements are constants (like space or set design) and some others are variables (like sound, light and performer). The reality is shaped by some rules based on time, which create some possibilities for the elements to interact. The piece is divided into four main sections. The computer will decide the order of those sections randomly. Each section is assigning a certain kind of environment, which restricts the light to a certain color; sound and movement to a certain vocabulary with a different quality for every section.

The performance is created through the interaction between the performer and the computer, which is controlling sound and lighting at the real time. The communication between the dancer and the computer happens through sensors allocated inside the space. Through this communication the decisions taken individually will affect the possible future actions taken by the other part. This will create a co-dependant relationship where both elements have to work together in order to produce the piece.