Live Performance, Cafe OTO, Monday June 10th, 7:30pm, TICKETS

The Hermes Experiment
Anne Denholm, harp
Oliver Pashley, clarinet
Héloïse Werner, soprano
Marianne Schofield, double bass

Programme:
- Josephine Stephenson - tanka
- Fergus Hall - New commission (supported by the Royal Philharmonic Society)
- Sylvia Lim, Kite (Dymchurch)
- Mira Calix, DMe
- Nwando Ebizie - New commission (supported by the Marchus Trust)
- Elaine Mitchener - the/e so/ou/nd be/t/ween
- Meredith Monk (arr. Denholm) - Double Fiesta

'Good Boy!'

The piece is an exploration of self-soothing following grief, loss and trauma - an aftercare ritual for artist and audience to go through together.

The central element and inspiration is Nwando’s experience whilst having a miscarriage of watching dog grooming videos.

This work is part of ‘After Care’, part of the British Council's Biennials Connect Programme, and will comprise live and pre-recorded contributions from: Christopher Cozier, Roo Dhissou, Nwando Ebizie & Languid Hands’ Rabz Lansiquot and Imani Mason Jordan.

It will take the below provocation as a starting point:

‘How do we consider and care for artists and audiences after the work is done? – thinking about the work after the work.’

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‘If suffering purifies the soul / then I’m as pure as one could hope

A beauty bordering on the obscene…’

Join multi-disciplilary artist Nwando Ebizie and enter a liminal space for a sonic exploration of myth, fairytale and archetypes. A playground of dream soundscapes where influences of experimental dance meet Klezmer, new music meets romantic ballad. The poetry of British Sign Language is danced to create visual music and the space vibrates to create an analogous haptic experience.

This is a multi-sensory theatrical music experience, oscillating from romantic songs to nightmarish visions, intimate reverie and lucid horror.

The music/English text/theatrical BSL was created symbiotically in order to give multiple possibilities for access and understanding whilst creating a unique art-music experience. 

Created, directed and composed by Nwando Ebizie, co-produced by Atelier Nwando and London Sinfonietta and supported by Southbank Centre - ‘Fall and then Rise on a Soft Winter’s morning’ is a multi-sensory immersive orchestral/live art experience at Colour Factory (London, UK) happening on 15th Nov 2023 and it is part of Nwando’s approach in creating Accessibility as Innovative Creativity and dismantling and inverting entrenched structural prejudices.

There will be two time slots - people can attend at 7 pm or at 9 pm and the show is one hour long

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Access information:

This takes place in Colour Factory, a nightclub which aims for inclusivity and diversity

The piece lasts for one hour. This is a relaxed performance

There are 3 parts to the music with roughly 10 minutes break in between each one

In the breaks you will be offered warm herbal drinks and popcorn 

The audience is invited to explore the immersive environment

You can choose to sit/lie on platforms that vibrate with the music - this is an additional idea to give Deaf people a sense of the music, however hearing people have found this to be relaxing as well

You can choose to sit on beanbags, chairs or stand

You can feel free to move at anytime

There is step-free access to the space

Latecomers are permitted

The performance includes music, captions, a theatrical BSL performance, spoken word

Each show is the same - one ticket covers one show

Lighting: 

There are no flashing lights

There is video projected onto giant balloons that you can watch that contains Chisato's signing and captions

Nwando will be performing a solo version of her 2022 album The Swan at She Makes Noise 2023 in Madrid. The festival invites an audience to discover without prejudice the work done by female artists and non-binary identities in electronic and experimental music, as well as in contemporary audiovisuals. The programming continues - in line with previous editions - with an ecofeminist approach, addressing other forms of thinking, listening, learning and dancing.

This 2023, the festival also focuses on artists who bring their magic from Latin America , as well as others from Nigeria, Greece, Spain and the United Kingdom .

Nwando will be performing at 9pm on 19/10

Tickets available here

19.00

26.08.23

Centre for Contemporary arts, Glasgow. Tickets are on sale cca-glasgow.com  Pay what you can from £0 to £8

Broadcast live on 87.9FM in the Glasgow area and online at radiophrenia.scot

The Great Unravelling

Two artists - Nwando Ebizie and Tom Richards come together and move apart - entangling themselves and their idiosyncratic polymathic practices (including Black Atlantic ritual cultures, minimalism, formalism, rave cultures, analogue synthesis and machine building, performance art, neurodivergent led sensory design, neurophenomenology)  and unraveling again - revealing the core of a constantly expanding Venn diagram. A multisensory, psychedelic, polyrhythmic mythic feast of movement, light, poetry and sound unfolds and you are invited into this liminal space for a spiraling cyclic ritual.

As part of Rewire Festival’s context programme revolving around the theme of Inter/relations, Nwando Ebizie presents Ritual Time, an invitation for dreaming, which will take place on Sunday 9th April. A closing ritual that doesn’t close. A garden of circular paths. Nwando Ebizie invites you for a speculative ritual performance-lecture, a whispered work of sonic fiction inspired by Black Atlantic ritual cultures and mythical time. Take your time, get comfortable, and join Nwando in practicing/experiencing forms of ancestral listening and dreaming. To what could have been, and what should have been, and what may possibly be. Ritual Time is inspired by Nwando’s immersive sensory environment Distorted Constellations and her debut album The Swan, which she will perform at Rewire on Saturday April 8 with her band

Inter/relations takes place at Amare, The Grey Space in The Middle, Nieuwe Kerk, and Page Not Found from 6 to 9 April. Situated around its music and performance line-up, Rewire’s context programme aims to provide a space for reflection and to bring the various practices of artists into conversation with one another. Through conversations, listening sessions and assemblies, the programme will tune into entangled environments and sound technologies, while challenging existing borders and linear notions of time.

Soprano Juliet Fraser returns to City with a programme featuring Alvin Lucier's pioneering work for female voice and pure wave oscillators alongside two brand-new works that respond to the writings of American marine biologist and environmentalist Rachel Carson.

Inspired by Carson's 'Sea Trilogy', Nwando Ebizie enters the world of deep time to draw parallels between the personal and the cosmic; Newton Armstrong explores the image of a constant underwater 'snowfall' of sediment that descends gradually to intensely dark depths, forming a swirling, descending murmuration of diversely particulate matter.

New works commissioned with the generous support of Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants, PRS Foundation's Open Fund & RVW Trust.