Mortality Tabes is a collaborative arts project founded by Woburn Sands-based music journalist Mat Smith (Electronic Sound, Further., Clash, Pooleyville.city). With its roots in sound art, field recordings and electronic composition, Mortality Tables recently expanded its focus to encompass multi-disciplinary practice with The Impermanence Project. The project has seen over 75 global collaborators each responding … Mortality Tables
Joanne Armitage is a live coder and musician working in algorithmic performance and electronic music, performing as ‘joanne’ and collaborating with the live-coding collective ALGOBABEZ. Her practice centres on live coding and algorave — generating and performing music from code in real time — alongside community and festival organising across experimental electronic music. She performed … Joanne Armitage
Outlands is an open-membership national network connecting organisations, producers, promoters, venues and individuals working in experimental music and interdisciplinary performance, with a particular focus on audiences outside London. It commissions new work and tours it across the UK. Initiated by the De La Warr Pavilion in 2018 and independent since 2020, its programme has included … Outlands
The third Outlands tour event, Drift, presented ‘part club, part installation, part immersive environment’: artists performed inside a specially built space where motion sensors and microphones monitored the room, crowd and performers, feeding a central system that projected visuals responding to the live performance. The set fused heavy electronics, hypno-chaotic grooves and precise frequency control, … Outlands #3: Drift
An Outlands commission by musician Beatrice Dillon and artist Keith Harrison merging rhythmic computer-music composition with transformed raw materials, via a modular system of malleable substances, light and multi-channel audio, with an experimental structure that changed reactively across tour dates. Accompanying daytime workshops by tour DJs Copper Sounds let participants design and cast playable wax … Outlands #4: Ecstatic Material
An original Outlands commission fusing Semiconductor’s (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) multi-channel video works with Eartheater’s (Alexandra Drewchin) live soundtrack and vocal performance into a theatrical production. The work investigated absorption and the spectrum between empirical research and human emotion through large-scale sublime projections, vocals, movement and sound — a collision of the visual artists’ … Outlands #5: Fracture Patterns