Monday 3 March 2025, 7.30pm
An evening of live performance with discarded and unremarkable objects over four acts. This concert focuses on three practitioners exploring detritus, junk percussion and garbage. It will feature four sets: solos by Matt Atkins and Beibei Wang, a duo set by Rubbish Music, and a collaborative performance by Rubbish Music and Beibei Wang. In her solo work, Beibei Wang has expanded the instrumental palette available to classical percussion, notably in her use of water and found objects as instruments. In their trio performance Rubbish Music and Wang will explore the meeting point between live foley, experimental percussion and musique concrète transformation
Rubbish Music is the duo of Kate Carr and Iain Chambers. We use sound to investigate the journeys, transformations and impacts of our discarded objects. With a practice centred on improvisation and the amplification of objects we seek to imagine new possibilities for rubbish with our orchestra of dirty oven grills, plastic wrappers, old toilet plungers, wine bottles, nasal spray and cardboard boxes,
Matt Atkins is an improvising percussionist and sound/visual artist who uses electronics, objects and tape loops in his work. He has released music on labels such as Falt, Rusted Tone Recordings, Invisible City, Whitelab Recs, tsss tapes, Coherent States, Steep Gloss, Flaming Pines, Wabi Sabi Tapes, Dasa Tapes and Chocolate Monk, among others. Since 2006 he has run the label MRM recordings. In 2020 he began curating and presenting a show for CAMP radio called Auricular Shelter.
In 2022 he had his first solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, 'Eoliths' at London's Hundred Years Gallery.
Genre-defying percussionist Beibei Wang is an acclaimed international virtuoso percussionist with both a Chinese and British musical education background. Beibei has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the classical music world, receiving international praise for her performances. She was listed in the top 50 Chinese musicians in the “Sound of East” project by the Chinese Ministry of Culture, as well as endorsed by the Arts Council, England receiving an Exceptional Talent visa from the British Government. Following a successful world tour, Beibei now leads a traditional Chinese percussion programme at SOAS, University of London. In 2020, Beibei was named Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Most recently Beibei was appointed as percussion professor of the Crossover Studies Faculty at London Performing Academy of Music. www.beibeimusic.com
