Thursday 26 September 2024, 7.30pm
Unpredictable Series is hosting an evening of two audiovisual performances that beautifully highlight connections to India, futurism, and free improvisation. The lineup includes a set by Avinash Kumar & Murthovic presenting Elsewhere in India live set. The other act presents an improvisation by Aneek Thapar, Thomas Ridley, Sink, Blanca Regina and Benedict Taylor, with visuals by Pierre Bouvier Patron.
"Elsewhere in India" is a visionary audiovisual electronica performance set in a future where global cultures are on the brink of extinction. The narrative centers on Meenakshi, a cultural cyborg designed to preserve Indian heritage and foster harmony through traditional Indian performing arts. The project is an amalgamation of 3D video games, AI-generated art, motion-captured dance, and an anthology of futuristic stories from India set in 2079 AD. It creatively intertwines heritage, science, and society through the lens of emerging Indian electro-classical dance music.
Murthovic and Thiruda are pioneering Indian transmedia artists who have been at the forefront of the country's electronic music and new media art scene for over two decades. With a shared passion for pushing the boundaries of digital storytelling and cultural preservation, they have collaborated on numerous projects that blend cutting-edge technology with traditional Indian aesthetics and narratives. Through their work as musicians, visual artists, and creative technologists, Murthovic and Thiruda have created immersive installations, performances, and experiences that have captivated audiences around the world, earning them a reputation as two of India's most innovative and influential contemporary artists.They have performed at BFI London Film Festival 2023, Adelaide Fringe 2023, Roundhouse London, CPH:DOX 2024
https://www.instagram.com/elsewhereinindia/
Aneek Thapar is a British Indian music producer, engineer and sound designer from London. He has worked on records for the likes of Rival Consoles and Max Cooper, scored and mixed programmes for Netflix and Disney+ and is co-founder of the virtual instrument design company - VOID & VISTA
Thomas Ridley is an artist and producer from Bristol. Cutting his teeth in the world of analogue electronic composition and live performance, Thomas takes a collage-like approach to recording and resampling a small collection of analogue instruments, in search of compositions that are imaginative and unwieldy, but with enough muscle to move a dancefloor. His live shows are fully improvised, exploring sound live on a modular synthesiser, and responding to the audience and space.
https://thomasridley.club
Sink is London-based artist creating high contrast sound worlds thatexplore the beauty of purity and imperfection. Sink’s music isinfused with both pop and experimentalism, that brings togethermultiple languages across electronic, classical impressionism andfolk. Sink uses both acoustic and electronic instruments alongsidevocals to design soundscapes that bend genres and carry audiencesinto uncharted sonic territories.
https://linktr.ee/sink.wav
Benedict Taylor is a solo viola player, violinist and composer active within string performance and improvised music in the British and European new music world. Described as a “virtuoso contemporary violist”, the central focus of his work is on the viola & improvisation, alongside composing for live performance, film, theatre, contemporary dance, art installation and creating multiple concept album projects.
https://benedicttaylormusic.com
Spanish interdisciplinary artist, audiovisual designer and educator based in London, working across live performance, projection art, installation, sound and film. For over two decades she has developed spontaneous composition systems in which image, light and sound merge into a single field, drawing on traditions of free improvisation and expanded cinema. Her collaborators include Matt Black of Coldcut, Leafcutter John, Steve Beresford, Peter Cusack, Benedict Taylor, Mandhira de Saram and Laetitia Sadier. She is founder and Director of Unpredictable Series CIC and a member of LAC at Cruce Arte Contemporaneo in Madrid. She holds a PhD cum laude in Audiovisual Performance Art from URJC Madrid, and her work has been supported by Arts Council England, the British Council, Sound & Music and the Francis Chagrin Award.
Visual artist based in London, working between digital video and analogue film and exploring the boundaries between them through moving image works, performances and installations, with a background in experimental film, expanded cinema and documentary. He presents video screenings and performances both solo and in collaboration. His work has been shown at L'Atelier MTK in France, Cruce and Proyector Festival in Spain, Café OTO and Iklectik in London, Sowieso in Berlin, Zaal100 in Amsterdam, and in Mexico.
https://www.studiopierre.art
Jordan Smart is a multi instrumentalist and composer known for his work with bands Mammal Hands, Sunda Arc and Vega Trails. He specialises in saxophones, reeds and flutes, and has studied many folk music traditions from around the world, especially Irish, Arabic, Greek and Indian. He tries to synthesise the different approaches to improvisation and composition from these traditions with his own voice and musical upbringing and background.
