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. She previously led experimental arts project TOPH, TUSK FRINGE and TUSK NORTH, and in November 2022, received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards For Artists in recognition of her contribution to music composition. Her music has recently been described as ‘genuinely ground-breaking’ (London Jazz News 2022) and ‘high-velocity sonic surrealism’ (4* The Guardian 2022). Recent releases include ‘BOWN’ on Heat Crimes, 'SADTITZZ' and ‘SKEEN'. Recent performances include Turntable Trio with Evicshen and Maria Chávez at Counterflows/ REWIRE 2023, and as soloist and co-composer of ‘6 Scenes for Turntables and Orchestra’ with Matt Shlomowitz for ICTUS/Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, for the final concert at IM Darmstadt 2023.
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
