Aisha Orazbayeva & Tim Etchells: 'Seeping Through' EP launch

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Aisha Orazbayeva and Tim Etchells perform a violin and voice improvisation to launch their first EP Seeping Through on PRAH recordings.

In Seeping Through, artist, director of Forced Entertainment and writer Tim Etchells collaborates with violinist Aisha Orazbayeva on a set of spontaneous compelling and fragmentary improvisations in which spoken text and music are treated as equals; fluid forces in the same space and conversation, creating a dynamic and always unstable landscape.

Constructing the accumulating text collage of the work, Etchells’ draws on fragments from his notebooks as well as on excerpts from performance texts and works in progress, creating collisions, loops, and unexpected connections between different spoken materials. In Etchells’ solo work language is somewhere between its semantics and its ephemeral materiality as sound vibration, texture and rhythm. Orazbayeva meanwhile, plays the violin in a way that tests the instruments’ limits, deconstructing and at the same time uncovering new sound potentials.

Seeping Through builds on the collaboration between Orazbayeva and Etchells commissioned for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction in 2015, as well as on the line of Etchells’ solo performance for theatre spaces A Broadcast (2014), and his ongoing series of improvisations in gallery spaces under the collective title Work Files.


Aisha Orazbayeva
Kazakh violinist and musician Aisha Orazbayeva is in demand with a repertoire extending from Bach and Telemann to Lachenmann and Nono. As a soloist she has performed at the Aldeburgh, Radio France Montpellier, Klangspuren and Latitude festivals, and venues including Carnegie Hall in New York and La Maison de Radio France in Paris. She has released two critically acclaimed solo albums on Nonclassical and PRAH recordings.

www.aishaorazbayeva.com

Tim Etchells
Tim Etchells is an artist and a writer based in the UK whose work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world-renowned Sheffield-based performance group Forced Entertainment and is currently Professor of Performance at Lancaster University. In recent years he has exhibited widely in the context of visual arts, participating in biennales Manifesta 7 (2008) in Rovereto, Italy, Art Sheffield (2008, Goteborg Bienale (2009), October Salon Belgrade (2010), Aichi Trienale, Japan 2010, with VlatkaHorvatManifesta 9 (Parallel Projects) 2012 and Folkestone Triennial 2014. Recent publications include Vacuum Days (Storythings, 2012) and While You Are With Us Here Tonight (LADA, 2013).

www.timetchells.com, www.forcedentertainment.com