Friday 29 September 2023, 7.30pm
Natalia Beylis is a musician and sound artist based in the North West of Ireland. Her art revolves somewhere between sonic story-teller and multi-instrumental explorer. She has released over 45 albums between solo works and collaborations and has appeared on numerous compilations. Her music parallels the lines of her surroundings: bird song, creaky trees, farm animals, the northwesterly breeze and rainfall. Lots and lots of rainfall. While she regularly records on a variety of traditional instruments (mainly pianos, organs, keyboards and mandola), she often uses non musical sound sources in her compositions.. A recent release, ‘Variations on a Sewing Machine’ (Nyahh 007) she pushed a domestic sewing machine to its sonic limits before its motor burned out and the machine caught fire.
In her live performances, Natalia layers seemingly incongruous sounds atop of each other to spawn strange juxtapositions and garbled parallels by exploring the sonic potentials of found objects, cassette tapes, field recordings, eerie mandola mantras and dreamscape piano voyage .
Natalia's latest two releases 'She Came Through the Window to Stand By The Door' and 'Library of Sticks' are available from Nyahh Records and Artsy Records.
In support, Sophie Cooper will be bringing her trombone noise songs down, her vocals emerge from dense textural noisy trombone loops, unexpected beauty from the tumultuous brass depths.
Sophie Cooper is a sound artist who Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) refer to as “A crucial member of Yorkshire’s far-reaching experimental music scene”. Sophie’s practice pivots around new presentations of acoustic instrumentation (primarily the trombone) with electronics, challenging conventions around composition, text placement and performance.
In recent years, Sophie has been particularly interested in publicly engaged, site specific, audio work, often in collaboration with visual artists. She has had work exhibited at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Wordsworth Grasmere Museum, Bury Art Gallery, Hereford Courtyard Art Centre and Gallery Frank as well as music venues including Cafe Oto and hcmf//.
Left Hand Cuts off the Right (Robbie Judkins) is an outlet for exploratory methods and composition. During live performances Robbie plays with a zither, bent electronics, objects, field recordings, loops and effects. The sounds are of habitual drones, gear-grinding metallic buzzing, crackling rhythms and aural oddities. Compositions and improvisations reflect on work and labour and the creation of sound as therapy.
In April 2023 he released, Free Time/Dead Time (Brachliegen Tapes), an album of focused minimalism, experimental electronics and twitching musique concrete. Free Time/Dead Time is a series of meditative compositions that reflect on the precarious boundaries between labour, leisure, and the quality of lived experience under late-capitalism.
"The freshness of Judkins's restrained approach is felt in an enjoyably weird atmospheric balance between sustained calm and sticky anxiety." The Wire
“Hardcore yoga music” The Quietus
He has created works for the Barbican, ICA, Resonance FM, Turner Contemporary, Whitechapel Gallery, University of Central Lancashire, Supernormal Festival and more. He is also the creator of Animal Sounds (Resonance FM), Parallax View (Threads Radio) and ex-member of punk-noise band Bruxa Maria.
www.lefthandcutsofftheright.bandcamp.com
www.soundcloud.com/lefthandcutsofftheright
www.cargocollective.com/robbiejudkins
