BRIGHTON: The Rose Hill

Friday 15th November, 2019

7:30pm

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DREKKA (US)

Working under the name DREKKA since 1996, composer Michael Anderson has explored early industrial tape culture, fragile bedroom noise-folk, and expansive cinematic textures.
His work and performances touch on themes of silence, memory, and forgetfulness. But rather than obscure himself, DREKKA functions as a direct line into Anderson's mind and his tenuous cache of memories. These personal aspects and this fragility are clearly on display, rather than being obfuscated by poetic abstractions.

Just as prominent, particularly in the live setting, is a sort of confrontation; a wrestling with frenetic energy that approaches mania or ecstasy. As DREKKA's recordings serve not to obscure but to exhibit Michael Anderson's mind, his performances serve to exhibit his person, his body.

DREKKA's audiences behold not an anonymous face in the glow of a laptop, but a man riding his flimsy card table strewn with tape players, bells, trinkets, metal, and pedals. They behold a man's spirit riding him, contact microphone in mouth, hands shifting cassettes collected over time and distance; a confrontation of spirit, body, memory, and sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqP1VlniTF0
https://drekka.bandcamp.com/

MIKAEL TOBIAS (DK)

Mikael Tobias is a Canadian musician, composer, producer and sound artist, currently based in Copenhagen, DK. His work explores the liminal space between conscious and unconscious resonance, using sonic architecture as an extension of the material environment. Blending organic instrumentation, digital manipulation and deconstructed elemental sound, Tobias creates an expanse where perception is constantly on the verge: just within grasp while slightly out of reach, simultaneously becoming and dissolving.

His first release as a solo artist, ABSENTIA (Unit Shifter Records, 2017), is an immersive and cinematic album that weaves billowing layers of lap steel guitar, tectonic motion, and cascades of noise into a sonic tapestry of undulating texture and rhythm. "Warped and otherworldly beauty that draws the mind to wander."

Tobias has performed at renowned festivals including MUTEK (Montreal, CA) and SPOT Festival (Aarhus, DK), and his original music and sound design have been featured internationally in a wide range of media including documentary films, TV series, Augmented Reality artwork, advertising campaigns, art installations, commercial sample packs and onboard airplanes. Tobias is also the co-founder of “practice” (www.noisemeditation.com), a serial investigation of the transcendental properties of sound in the context of group meditation.

www.mikaeltobias.com
www.unitshifterrecords.bandcamp.com/album/absentia

MOUNT ROYAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7egsLmQVzvw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1J6wiwVAGLlERs0ew6D3v8L8FzOLnTdDtUoVHSBds1LvCyP7v16ZvtU6w

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Rose Hill Terrace
Brighton
BN1 4JL

www.therosehill.co.uk/