Evening event featuring a vareity of experimental performers.
Act 1: Hardi Kurda, Andrew Ciccone
Act 2: Embodied Dialogues (Iris Garrelfs, Jenn Kirby)
Act 3: Freida Abtan
Doors 7:30 | music 8pm | £10 cash
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FREIDA ABTAN
Deemed an “audiovisual sorceress,” Freida Abtan is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and musician inspired by sensory immersion. Her music ranges from acousmatic composition to more industrial and pop-influenced experimental anthems. Both as a solo artist, and as a floating member of the renowned experimental music group Nurse with Wound, she has toured her music and visuals internationally. Her compositions, performances and installations have been featured at Mutek (CA), the Elektra Festival (CA), the Spark Festival of Electronic Music (USA), and the Cap Sembrat Festival (ES), amongst many others. She is an Associate Professor of Electronic Music Composition at Carnegie Mellon University.
EMBODIED DIALOGUES
Embodied Dialogues is a collaboration between Jenn Kirby and Iris Garrelfs, combining sensor‑enabled garments with movement and improvised voice. As the performers move among the audience, the garments’ sensors are activated by the movement, triggering an array of pre-recorded sounds—ranging from electroacoustic and body-sourced sounds to site-specific recordings—that are amplified via handheld speakers. The voice remains unprocessed and unamplified.
The integration of wearables, voice, and motion highlights the tactile, organic aspects of sound-making and draws on unpredictability in live improvisation. What emerges at the intersection is an overlapping constellation of dialogues between bodies, sounds, space and audience.
Iris Garrelfs is a sound artist and composer working at the intersection of music, art, and technology through performance, installation, and fixed media. A UK pioneer in combining voice with digital processing, her work has been shown internationally and described by The Wire as exploring “animated dialogues between human expressiveness and digital artifice.” She is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she co-heads the Sound Practice Research Unit.
Jenn Kirby is a composer, performer and creative technologist working with instrumental, electroacoustic and electronic music. Creating hybrid instruments from software, sensors and repurposed controllers, Jenn explores sound through physicality and embodied interaction. Releases include four solo albums and three EPs, with live performances on RTÉ Lyric FM and BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and New Music Show.
KURDA/CICCONE
Hardi Kurda‘s work explores the boundaries between noise, music, and social experience, combining site-specific installations, interactive performances, electronic compositions, and experimental radio. Inspired by his migration journey, he developed Found Scores, an alternative listening medium that emerged during times of crisis, transforming overlooked everyday objects into sonic encounters. Hardi collects sounds often dismissed or forbidden—radio static, environmental hums, fleeting human movements—and reimagines them as living scores within immersive installations and performances. Audiences become co-creators, improvising and dissolving the boundaries between composer, performer, and listener, with listening becoming a vital, collective act born of necessity. Through radio frequencies and site-specific recordings, his works reveal the political and poetic power of noise, prompting reflection on memory, belonging, and displacement. By reimagining the familiar and the hidden, Found Scores turns listening into a force for witnessing, archiving, and transformation, urging us to reimagine the world through the act of urgent listening.
Andrew Ciccone is a multimedia artist and trash collector from New York. Since migrating to London Andrew has doubled down on his artistic output with deep ventures into live improvisation, paper collage, metalwork, abstract videos and prose. He also runs the Navel-Gazers interveiw series with recording artists and the No Computers improv event series.
