Monday 9 June 2025, 7.30pm
An evening to celebrate the launch of Cassette Album with performances by Mariam Rezaei, Untrammel (Adam Engle, Gretchen Korsmo, and Cody Yantis) and Hannah Silva.
Cassette Album is a compilation of sonic responses to tape scores by the writer and artist Salomé Voegelin. It features work by eight artists – Pisitakun, super inter, Heather Frasch, Magda Drozd, Mariam Rezaei, Samson Young, Hannah Silva and Cody Yantis – who each have composed works in response to individual tape scores by Salomé.
"Magnetic Tape is able to record, store and playback audio recordings
It enables repetition and the capturing of time in a sonic shape…
…giving access to time’s plasticity that does not follow itself
but generates unexpected shapes." (From the liner notes by Voegelin).
Cassette Album is released via the label Flaming Pines and will be available for purchase on the night (cash only).
Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award-winning composer, turntablist and performer working across experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club music and hip-hop. Described by The Wire as “one of the most technically adept and creatively daring artists to use the turntable as a musical instrument,” Rezaei uses a digital vinyl system, allowing her to manipulate an expansive range of samples in real time using classic turntablist skills and her own innovative techniques.
The Anglo-Iranian virtuoso’s latest solo release FRACTURED (Heat Crimes) has been praised by The Wire, Uncut and Bandcamp Daily, and was one of The Quietus’ cassette releases of 2024. Rezaei is a member of the international free music supergroup The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, the pioneering Turntable Trio with Evicshen and Maria Chávez, 1984 with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and Sakina Abdou, and Fire! Orchestra.
Her co-composition with Matthew Shlomowitz, 6 Scenes for Turntable and Orchestra, was premiered at IMD Darmstadt 2023, while in October 2025, she premiered Scholar’s Record, a major commission for the 75th Donaueschinger Musiktage that draws on the legendary festival’s audio archives. Other recent projects include a collaboration with Ensemble Contrechamps and upcoming commissions from Ensemble Intercontemporain and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Other collaborators include Pat Thomas, Bill Orcutt, Jennifer Walshe, Edward George, Farida Amadou, Mats Gustafsson, Valentina Magaletti, Robyn Rocket, Thurston Moore, Lasse Marhaug, Evicshen, Fritz Welch, Raymond MacDonald, Lukas König, Okkyung Lee, Dali de St Paul, Kenosist and Ali Robertson.
Untrammel is the trio of Adam Engle, Gretchen Korsmo, and Cody Yantis. Based in Oghá P'o'oge (Santa Fe, New Mexico), their sound practice is rooted in acoustic instrumentation as means of inhabiting the spaces between improvisation and composition.
Hannah Silva is a writer and performer confronting big ideas through formal innovation and a seriously playful approach to language and technology. Their work spans BBC radio dramas—winning the Tinniswood Award for best script—and two decades of critically acclaimed poetry and performance. Their record 'Talk in a bit' was among The Wire's top 25 albums of 2016
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and writer engaged in listening and sound making as a socio-political practice. She works from the relational logic of sound to focus on the in-between and the liminal, to imagine the world from its indivisibility. Voegelin writes articles and papers, books, texts and text-scores for performance and publication: Her most recent book Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands (2023) reconsiders art as political not in its message or aim, but by the way it confronts the institution; and her Album Paint your lips while singing your favourite pop song, a compilation of eight responses to her text-scores, was released by Flaming Pines in 2022. www.salomevoegelin.net
