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Plunder Blunder Asunder
Plunder Blunder Asunder is a night of Sample-based Music, Musique Concrete, and Retro Electronic music at iconic venue The Horse Hospital. Featuring
The Estonian Electronic Music Society Ensemble,
Langham Research Centre,
lagtime seedling, and King Monolith.
November 25th, doors 7:30
The Horse Hospital,
Colonnade, WC1N 1JD
TicketsThe Estonian Electronic Music Society Ensemble (EMA) is an ensemble founded in 2017, dedicated to playing electronic chamber music. The aim of the ensemble is to transcend technological barriers and to develop sensitive music making, responsiveness and acute listening by exploiting the incredibly rich sonic possibilities of different electronic instruments. The ensemble consists of six musicians – Doris Hallmägi, Ekke Västrik, Mihkel Tomberg, Taavi Kerikmäe, Tarmo Johannes, Theodore Parker. The ensemble has performed at the festivals Afekt 2017 and ISCM/Eesti Muusika Päevad 2019-2024. The Estonian Electronic Music Society’s ensemble has been appreciated for its flexibility and musicality, which is otherwise easy to lose in electronic music between knobs and sliders. The ensemble’s instrumentation ranges from Buchla and Serge synthesizers to computer-based live electronics.
Langham Research Centre came together in 2003 with the purpose of using a studio as their instrument: a studio with microphones and also, crucially, several ¼” tape machines. From the start they were interested in manipulating sound on tape and in focusing on one sound source, or a small number of sounds. Their inspiration and enthusiasm are driven by the soundworlds produced by maverick composers working in the middle of the 20th century. Like an early music group’s use of historic instruments, LRC continue to work with obsolete equipment including tape recorders, gramophone cartridges and sine wave oscillators, to perform authentic versions of 20th century classic electronic repertoire by John Cage, Alvin Lucier and others. Their new studio album, “Tape Works (Vol. 2)” is released by Nonclassical on 26th February 2021. The album leans towards the Parisian musique concrète scene, with an emphasis on the spatial identity of environmental, architectural and mechanical field recordings. It follows 2017’s “Tape Works (Vol. 1)”, which compiled the group’s earliest tape experiments alongside longer-form concert works.
lagtime seedling plays their laptop using google chrome windows and youtube.com and alt + tab.
King Monolith is a sound artist, engineer and musician from London, who unites all three disciplines in his sculptural practise. Inspired by the effect of monumental public sculpture, simultaneously ignored and mythologised, he works with heritage musical instrument parts through assemblage and automation to explore their enduring symbolic and sonic power.
Poster by Matej Siska.