Dysfunktional Beats vol.11

0	LONDON: The Glove That Fits
P	Thursday 12th October, 2023
N	7:00pm

LONDON: The Glove That Fits

Thursday 12th October, 2023

7:00pm

Event information

An evening of eclectic beat sculpting, idiosyncratic synthesis, warm blankets of noise and echo jams.

Icarus

Icarus is the misadventure of Ollie Bown and Sam Britton, following the fiddly twisted rhythm along a scratchy line; noise from black boxes through which only certain pieces of data may pass. This in turn feeds through boards and wires to become processed as musical, by default.

In short, an effect similar to dropping ink into water is experienced aurally as a series of ineffable blips, interleaved within the sounds of the marketplace. With a bit of luck this should reconfigure musical industriality into a dadaist work of precision chaos, but a freak occurrence could equally spell disaster for us all. All Icarus can do is try to mediate the event; this is the true fate of the modern musician, sending his or her sound bouncing along wires until somewhere, at some unknown point, they crash headlong into context. It’s like tapes and cars. It’s like the junk equation. It’s like the effect of indifference to sound, which is less than the difference in sound from in front or behind.

Badun

Badun was formed in 2002 in Aarhus, Denmark. Many years have passed since they left earth to travel through space, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, than light. This gives the result of a sound, changing alignment with the passing of different ages, and in many ways, a timeless approach to jazz music. Warping through boundless time, vibrant information appears.

Hidden textures are only noticeable through their dynamic impact on the larger structures. Dissolved percussive patterns in motion, moving and merging; working together, creating a larger abstract harmonic consensus, like metaphysical entities working for and against each other, continuously cancelling each other out or adding to the fabric of sound, leaving a fluctuating landscape whose curvature is ever changing.

This distorted space-time creates a purposefully made blissful delirium, a pixilated deep sleep, in which to fall awake through. Deconstructed algorithms challenge their creator, small revolutionaries on acidized, intuitively, self organizing…

Bovine Mindstate

Bovine Mindstate is the solo alias of by drummer Tim Giles, which sees him explore the submerged realms of multiple genres, shifting fluidly from one to the next: dub, electronica, electro-funk, jazz, free-electronic music. Giles’ inimitable time- feel and impeccable rhythmic language is at the centre of these pieces, not least on “Buckley’s Dub” (his joyful tribute to saxophonist Steve Buckley, a player after his own, lyrical and rhythmic heart), surrounded by the brilliant, animated electronics, the bubbling laboratory of analogue and digital. But the joy of Bovine Mindstate is hearing this master musician take time to imaginatively explore the boundless, shapeshifting possibilities of electronica, from squiggly pop motifs and infectious funk grooves to the remote horizons of the electroacoustic.

Bovine Mindstate abounds with allusions, reminders – a fragment of D.A.F. in the terse synths of “The Cow Creamer”, of the experimental works of electric era Miles Davis, of Lee “Scratch” Perry and his adventures in his Black Ark studio, of the industrial dub of Cabaret Voltaire, of Daphne Oram and her audacious, lonely efforts to imagine the far future through her prototype electronic works.There’s an explicit tribute to Laurie Spiegel too, whose The Expanding Universe is an explicit influence on this album, as referenced on “After Spiegel”, in terms of its epic construction. However, these are just passing points of familiarity in a exceptional and meticulous assemblage that is itself unique.

Henry Greenleaf

Henry Greenleaf is among the most prolific young producers the UK has ever seen. His signature sound design shines through in his vast array of techno, dubstep, footwork and jungle productions, and launches you into a freezing void. Don't worry, his kicks pull you right back.

Henry is a multi-media artist operating out of London. His fractured visuals and wonky techno bits can challenge and disrupt, as much as the soundscapes he creates can soothe. Regardless of genre, tempo, time signature or scene, his productions force you to take notice.

Mieko Shimizu & Jasmine Morris

Mieko and Jasmine present a newly commissioned collaboration for this event.

Mieko Shimizu is a London based Japanese singer, songwriter, composer and producer. She first erupted onto the scene as Apache 61; her searing alter ego, fusing layers of cross-woven breaks and battling shards of sub-bass within stateless melodies drawn from the fringes of the avant-garde. Her last album, ‘My Tentacles’, released as Mico, saw her return to a deeper, more reflective state in the cavernous depth of beautiful symphonic songs that oscillated with glitchy electronica.

She has produced scores for contemporary dance company Phoenix Dance Theatre as well as the Ballet ‘The Red Balloon’ at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre. She was made an ‘Emerging Artist in Residence’ at London’s Southbank Centre where she collaborated with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on her own compositions.

Jasmine Morris is a British/Japanese musician and composer studying at the Royal College of Music as a Noël Coward Composition Scholar, supported by the Victor Dahdaleh Foundation Scholarship. She previously studied at the Purcell School of Music on the George Drexler Scholarship. She has been awarded multiple residencies (Dartington Summer School, Luxembourg Composition Fellow and Britten-Pears Young Artist) and prizes (BBC Young Composer of the Year 2020, Royal College of Music Contemporary Music Competition 2021.)