Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING NINETEEN "ELEKTRONIK"

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Konsztrukting ELEKTRONIK Soundz EVENING NINETEEN

PROGRAMME
PART ONE
Set #1 - Pete McPartlan & Lev Dudas (6:00 - 6:25)
Set #2 - Falling Cat Problem (6:35 - 7:00)
Set #3 - Karina Townsend & Paul Margree (7:10 - 7:35)
Break: 7:35 - 8:00
PART TWO
Set #4 - Saulius Bendoraitis & Freland Green (8:05 - 8:30)
Set #5 - John Macedo & Tom Betteridge (8:35 - 9:00)
Set #6 - Sunfish Starfish (9:10 - 9:35)

PETE MCPARTLAN
Pete McPartlan is a video artist and improviser based in London. He plays with little synthesizers, record players and laptops and is a regular at Skronk free improvised open mic, London Musicians Workshop and etc. He also makes sound-films, animations and live audio/visual performances as well as making live visuals for bands, recently designing and performing hand-made animations for folk band This Is The Kit’s tour. He explains science for a living and illustrated the book on quantum physics and heavy metal music.

References
https://www.petemcpartlan.co.uk/
https://reidemeistermoves.bandcamp.com/
https://www.videohistoryproject.org/pete-mcpartlan

LEV DUDAS
In his early life influenced by rock and progressive music and later on by the composers Schoenberg and Xenakis – a gamechanger for him! Suddenly, an exciting sonic world opened up for him and suggested the possibilities for his own music and what sound worlds could be realised.
Electroacoustic and free improvised music are two fields he has a particular interest in, as a performer and listener, and exploring the potential of instrumental and sonic combinations is perhaps his mission statement – a key aesthetic in his practice. Since 2019 he has resumed his sonic explorations with his goal being to learn as much about sound production seeking a unique signature through experimentation and the manipulation of ambient noise and the textures.
More recently he has been performing at various venues in London, Chelmsford, and Southend alongside many players from the sound art and improvisation scene – Kate Carr, Phil Durrant, John Bisset, Tasos Stamou, Stephanos Chytiris, Trevor Taylor, Bryan Styles and Matt Atkins, to name a few.

References
https://noewacreativemusic.co.uk
https://konsztruktingsoundz.co.uk
https://soundcloud.com/noewacreativemusic
https://noewacreativemusic.bandcamp.com/

JOHN MACEDO
John Macedo is an artist and performer from London. He has incorporated everything from acoustic instruments and environmental sound to analogue and computer synthesis into recorded works, live performances, film, sound installations and workshops. He has a pluralistic approach which explores connections and relationships and revealing the hidden potential in all sounds, environments and technologies, often in intimate, immersive and intuitive ways.

He performs live solo and has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and artists including Phil Julian, Graham Dunning, Tom White, Yoni Silver, John Butcher, Cath Roberts, John Edwards, Michael Speers, Steve Noble, Sue Lynch, Lee Fraser and Adam Bohman, to name a few. He has had work released by The Tapeworm, Hideous Replica, Sound Holes, and Beartown Records as well as releasing small run and object editions on his own label, The Black Plume Editions. He has performed and presented work in the UK, Europe and US and has led workshops and produced collaborative, educational and community-based projects for Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Artsadmin and New Contemporaries. He also programmes SOLO:DUO:TRIO, a concert series of experimental and improvised music at Cafe OTO in Dalston, London.

References
https://www.johnmacedo.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/@johnmacedo_

TOM BETTERIDGE
Tom Betteridge is a poet and sound maker living in London. His experiments with voice, sound poetry, feedback and tape have been released by Infant Tree (three songs, 2025), Chocolate Monk (pinkfoot, March 2024), Falt (adits, December 2023) and Brachliegen Tapes (pearly, May 2023). Tom's most recent self-released work, curtain-fire (October, 2024), was written on residency at the Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre: https://tombetteridge.bandcamp.com/album/curtain-fire

three songs (Infant Tree, 2025): https://infanttree.bandcamp.com/album/three-songs
pinkfoot (Chocolate Monk, 2024): https://tombetteridge.bandcamp.com/album/pinkfoot-chocolate-monk-cm-609
pearly (Brachliegen Tapes, 2023): https://brachliegentapes.bandcamp.com/album/pearly

"SUNFISH STARFISH"
Sunfish Starfish is Steve O’Malley and Emma Reed.
Inspired by nature and forged between the walls of a school library, Sunfish Starfish craft very loud soundscapes for supernatural environments.

References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU84Fb_ZDY8
https://anticipatingnowhere.bandcamp.com/album/brimful-of-escher
https://www.instagram.com/sunfish_starfish/

SAULIUS BENDORAITIS
a.k.a. Sound Break Project – lithuanian, electronic music performer and producer based in London. Using wide range of synthesizers, drum machines and electro acoustic instruments. Member of Lo Fi Ensemble. Played number of solo and collaboration improvised performances in London, Whitstable and Kaunas, Lithuania.

References
https://soundbreakproject1.bandcamp.com/track/swift-thought
https://soundcloud.com/saulius-303

FRELAND GREEN (Brian Webb)
Freland Green is a member of the Lo-fi Ensemble in South London and helps to organise the ImproVox evenings at the Bridewell Theatre Bar in the City. As a performer, his current tendency is to talk over recordings.

PAUL MAGREE
IVY NOSTRUM is a sound artist from London. He blends explorations of everyday objects with musique concrete-inspired sound collage. He has released work on SND HLS, Liquid Library, Structured Disasters, Wormhole World and Invisible City Records.

Reference
https://nostrumivy.bandcamp.com/

KARINA TOWNSEND
Karina Townsend is a creative technologist and intrepid sonic adventurer. She works with materials from conventional recording tools to sound making devices, improvised from life's offcuts, to explore the physical environment. For Konsztrukting Soundz she will explore continuous systems with careful modulation, walking a tightrope where things can break or behave unexpectedly.

"FALLING CAT PROBLEM"
Falling Cat Problem is a new collaboration between Lucia H Chung (en creux) and Jack Chuter (Guesswork), presently centred on improvisations for slow-moving electricity and feedback. “Inclination” was recorded live and remotely back in April 2023, with Lucia stationed in London and Jack in Bournemouth, each urging the other to resist the allure of compositional progress. Instead they forefront the miniature movements that adorn the so-called stillness, pressing hard into unmoving constellations of drone and static until they look set to explode.

LUCIA H CHUNG
Lucia H. Chung is a Taiwanese artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where the sound creation springs from her fascinations in noise generated through no-input feedback mixing board. The volatile nature of the system and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy pouring into the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy.
Lucia’s passion lies in live performance and has regularly performed solo and with collaborators in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, including Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Krama Festival, Lisboa Soa Festival, Sanatorium of Sound Festival and Festival Electropixel.
Fuzz comes alive, moving at odd angles like the sinuous threads are being chased by a series of subatomic bleeps and flashes. Tension rises as the tempo picks up, fueling the disjointed rhythmic quality within each sterile, self-contained unit. – Fox Digitalis

Facebook: @lucia.h.chung
Twitter: @encreuxmusic
Instagram: @encreuxmusic

References
https://luciahchung.com/
https://bandcamp.com/encreuxmusic
https://www.ursss.com/2022/10/en-creux/

JACK CHUTER

https://gguueesssswwoorrkk.bandcamp.com/