Sunday 12 November 2023, 2pm
Since 2020 Shakeeb Abu Hamdan (Beirut/Paris) and Sholto Dobie (Vilnius) have worked together on remote and live collaborations. Their work centers around the use of drums, hurdy gurdy, self-made organ, collected metals, bells, cymbals which they augment and amplify with surface transducers, microphones, pitch and rhythmic modulation effects, cheap looping megaphones and other lo-tech electronics.
Their remote collaboration It’s Worse was released by TakuRoku in 2020 and issued as a cassette by Steep Gloss in 2021.
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan is a musician and visual artist based in Paris. He performs with an unorthodox setup of drums, bells and cymbals which he augments and amplifies with surface transducers, microphones, pitch and rhythmic modulation effects and modified megaphones. His performances are structured but leave space for generative accidents and improvisation in response to the instabilities of feedback manipulation and the unpredictable interactions built into his instrumental system.
He has recently shown work and performed at Beirut Art Centre, Real No Real Festival (Madrid), GMEA (Albi), Fylkingen (Stockholm), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris) and Cafe OTO (London).
Sholto Dobie - Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He regularly performs in events, using loose structures, site specific methodologies and an array of sound sources including home-made organs and bagpipes. Over the years, he has explored ideas related to folklore, environment and a sonic phenomenon. He is based in Vilnius where he co-organises the artist run space Studium P and curates a regular event and radio series for local and international experimental music called Progine. He has releases everywhere, with music on labels such as Mappa, All Night Flight, Kashual Plastik, Infant Tree, Takuroku, Penultimate Press and Thanet Tape Centre. A release with GLARC is planned this year (GLARC 0000000000000000000000000YETTOBEDETERMINED)
https://www.instagram.com/sholtodobie/
https://sholtodobie.bandcamp.com/album/23
Ute Kanngießer is a London based cellist and composer from Germany. Over the years, she has carefully deconstructed her classical roots and almost exclusively performs unscripted, improvised music. Much of her work has evolved in relationship with other art forms such as film, poetry, dance and site specific work. She is interested in the vast expressive possibilities of her instrument in relation to body, space, and others, always looking to rediscover or redefine what is musical/lyrical in this moment in time.
Recent releases include Blue Monday - a collaboration with writer Zara Joan Miller - on New York label Reading Group.
Zara Joan Miller is a British/Iranian artist working across poetry, performance and film. Her writing often situates itself in communal time(keeping) and space before taking root in the private body. BLUE MONDAY was published by JOAN Publishing in 2022 and her second book of poetry Year of the Dragon is forthcoming with TACO! Recent solo performances draw from ongoing research into abjection, lactation and personal ancestry. Her work has recently been presented at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Barbican Centre, Maximilian William Gallery, Les Atelier Claus, Horse Hospital, In Vitro, Default Den Haag and has appeared in motor dance journal, Fieldnotes journal, Hotel, Another Gaze and Worms Magazine. Blue Monday was also released as a duo LP with Ute Kanngießer on New York label Reading Group in 2023.
