Maryia Kamarova + Daniel Dariel (duo), Pheobe riley Law, Amias Hanley
Sunday October 26th
Doors 7:30
The Mews Coachworks
27 Mortimer Road
NW10 5QR
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Maryia Kamarova and Daniel Dariel explore the audible analogies between physical materials and synthesized textures, navigating in sonic environments on the edges of tangible and virtual realms. Daniel works with digital instruments for synthesis and sampling, Maryia creates autonomous creature-like objects by assembling electronics and found materials. Daniel Dariel has been playing in numerous projects, mostly with drums and electronics. He is part of the Third Type Tapes label and les ateliers claus, a venue for experimental music in Brussels. Maryia Kamarova's practice is situated at the intersection of performing arts, scenography, sound and installation art. She is a co-founder of PYL collective and is currently a member of Q-O2 art team in Brussels.
Pheobe riley Law is an installation artist working across sound, performance, sculpture, photography, and moving image. She creates dialogues between bodies, borders, and devices to reveal new forms of relation. She is particularly interested in non-human actors, inanimate objects, and how human activity is shaped by systems of boundary. creation. Through playful inversions, she highlights the object-hood of humanity and the agency of the "inanimate". Her latest performance installation, Vegetal Empathy, is a speculative simulation of the garden, exploring our entanglement with more-than- human entities through data, micro-listening and acts of tending.
Amias Hanley is an artist working at the intersection of sound, technology, and ecology. While their broader practice is grounded in auditory-led research through composition, installation, and sound sculpture, their performances embrace sound as an experimental and listenable medium. Often drawing on site, atmospherics, electromagnetics, found objects, and field recordings, their performances sometimes explore thresholds, aimlessness, and the possibilities of sound.
Faradena Afifi + Steve Beresford + Ansuman Biswas (trio), Reuben, Special Guests
27 Mortimer Road, NW10 5QR
October 28th, Doors 18:30
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Faradena, a British Afghani community musician, full time T’ai Chi teacher and
practitioner, is influenced by nature (especially birdsong), improvisation and musical form that involves unusual rhythms. ‘Flash of Blue’ recorded at Three Circles Studio in Saffron Walden, is Faradena Afifi’s debut solo EP of evocative and moving songs about life, love and death. The title song Kingfisher, plus Last Call,
are both originals. Scarborough Fair, Drowned Sailor and Bruton Town are Faradena’s unique interpretations of traditional folk songs. Her poignant, expressive and delightfully agile vocals are complemented by her thoughtful
arrangements for cello, viola, violin, piano and percussion, all played by Fara. She is joined by Steve Beresford, the EP’s producer, on piano for Last Call.
Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over fifty years, freely improvising on the piano, electronics and other things with people like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, John Zorn, London Improvisers Orchestra and Alterations (with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack). Steve has worked with Christian Marclay on various Marclay mixed media pieces. He has also worked with The Slits, Najma Akhtar, Stewart Lee, Ivor Cutler, Prince Far-I, Alan Hacker, Tania Chen, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Faradena Afifi, Ray Davies, Mandhira De Saram, The Flying Lizards, Zeena Parkins, The Portsmouth Sinfonia, Ilan Volkov, Rachel Musson, Vic Reeves, Lore Lixenberg, Valentina Magaletti and many others. Beresford has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, free-improviser, composer, conductor and producer, and was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.
Ansuman Biswas was born in Calcutta and trained in the UK. He now has an international practice encompassing music, film, live art, installation, writing and theatre. He is interested in hybridity and interdisciplinarity, often working between science, art and industry, for instance, or between music, dance and visual art. With skills in a number of different fields, he has developed a dynamic practice which traverses, translates and transposes across various kinds of borders. An example of this border-crossing is his mapping of Vedic and Buddhist thought to modern debates in science and philosophy, which then find expression in film or performance.
Reuben is:
Funny
Energetic
Kind
Knowledgeable
Chatty
Understanding
Hard working
Giggly