Saturday 29 June 2024, 7.30pm
Chuquimamani-Condori is a multidisciplinary artist & musician belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people.
Chuquimamani-Condori blends traditional drum & ceremonial music from their Pakajaqueño family, full of harsh, colorful synths & noise, said to "recreate the cacophony of the first aurora, the call of chuqi chinchay", described by listeners as "astonishing in its unabashed emotional vulnerability & raw, chaotic, even violent noise overload", "like stargazing, making a bonfire, profoundly uplifting and human", & "spiritual, boundary liquefying" music.
New album 'DJ E' was released in November 2023.
Previous recent works include Rayo Mix (2022), Across the Policed World: A Transnocturnal Huayño (2022), and Amaru's Tongue: Daughter (2021), a collaborative work with Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. They also continue to do work with AIM SoCal, the Southern California chapter of the American Indian Movement (founded in 1968).
Also on the bill, musician, writer and filmmaker, Sunik Kim, whose Potential album on our own in-house Otoroku label was #14 on The WIRE's best release of last year, and whose new album Tears of Rage is out now on Rope Editions.
Sunik Kim is a musician, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. Her recent work attempts to unfold problems of perceptual and temporal distortion through computer-generated sound. Her writing on subjects ranging from Korean communism to Conlon Nancarrow has been featured in The Wire Magazine, Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, Tone Glow and elsewhere. Her latest album, Formenverwandler, was released in 2025.
Drawing from her extensive research on composer Conlon Nancarrow, Formenverwandler sees Kim exploring the time or tempo canon, which can pull and project the listener's senses, melting the temporal and spatial perception of presented sounds. As in previous works such as 2022’s Raid on the White Tiger Regiment and 2023’s Potential, Kim deploys patches and tools she has designed for SuperCollider, which take raw, utilitarian General MIDI notes and multiply and spray them into frenetic webs and networks of spiraling sound.
