HEXA: FACTORY PHOTOGRAPHS (Jamie Stewart & Lawrence English)

0	LONDON: Upset the Rhythm @ The Forge
P	Wednesday 15th February, 2017
N	7:00pm

LONDON: Upset the Rhythm @ The Forge

Wednesday 15th February, 2017

7:00pm

Event information

Upset The Rhythm presents…

HEXA: FACTORY PHOTOGRAPHS
(Jamie Stewart & Lawrence English sonic response to David Lynch’s photography)
Wednesday 15 February
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey St, Camden, London, NW1 7NL
7pm | £14 |

HEXA is a project by Australian composer and artist Lawrence English and Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart exploring the physicality of sound and its abilities to infiltrate, abrade and occupy the body. Premiered at the David Lynch: Between Two Worlds retrospective at GOMA museum in Brisbane, Australia in April 2015, HEXA is a sonic response to Lynch’s Factory Photographs, a collection of images Lynch took of disused factories and the ruins of industry in the USA, Poland, Germany and the UK. Using the factory photographs as both a literal and metaphoric source, their performance draws root from the texture of Lynch’s images, the imagined and actual spaces, and the spectral histories contained within them. The effect is like “cascading low frequency pulses and tectonic plates of sound, suspended in cavernous cathedral-like spaces.”

When asked recently about his decades’ long interest in photographing factories in various states of disuse, David Lynch remarked “I grew up in the north-west of America where there are no factories at all, just woods and farms. But my mother was from Brooklyn, so when I was little we used to go there and I got a taste for a certain kind of architecture and a feeling for machines and smoke and fear. To me, the ideal factory location has no real nature, except winter-dead black trees and oil-soaked earth. Time disappears when I'm shooting in a factory, it's really beautiful.”

HEXA's album is out now on the Room40 label.

http://lawrenceenglish.com/
http://www.xiuxiu.org/