We invite you to join Nwando for her live performance Solve et Coagula, a 16 speaker surround audio performance created in residence as part of YSWN's Sound Pioneers Programme.
Inspired by the alchemical concept of the same name, which asserts that to build something up, you must first break it down. The piece is a ritual experience – an invitation to experience the psychic phenomena of breaking down the self in order to let go, pass through, remake oneself anew. In writing it, she was inspired by ‘Biophilic observations, and more-than human time scales'.
Nwando was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in 2021.
IKLECTIK, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, SE1 7LG
Saturday 23 April 2022 | 7:30pm – 11:30pm
Tickets: £5 General Admission
“Solve et Coagula, a new electronic work by Nigerian-born Nwando Ebizie, took the form of an atmospheric, quasi-ambient shifting surface of strings incorporating a variety of horn-like calls, deep bass and buzzing tones. Ebizie’s control of these elements was lovely, conveying a strong dramatic sense, organically moving through complex polarities of density and drone, often in unexpected directions, though its caprice was balanced by a measured approach to articulation, always keeping the drama subtle. Seriously beautiful stuff from an artist I now want to explore a whole lot more.”
Simon Cummings, 5against4.
Nwando will perform alongside the following artists:
Sophie Cooper: Intact
Sophie Cooper is a sound artist whose practice pivots around new presentations of acoustic instrumentation (primarily the trombone) with electronics, challenging conventions around composition, text placement and performance. Nominated for an Ivors sound art award in 2020, Sophie joins us at this concert to present 'Intact' a piece produced for hcmf// in 2019 for the Huddersfield Immersive Sound System.
Julia Set: multi-channel performance
Julia Set are an audiovisual project curated by Lewis Wolstanholme and Francis Devine. For this performance they will be performing a new work centred upon spatial deconstruction and the spatial interaction of colour. http://lewiswolstanholme.co.uk/videos
Courtney Reed: voice augmented with singing knit
Courtney Reed is a mezzo-soprano and a PhD student at the Centre for Digital Music at QMUL. At this concert, Courtney's semi-improvised surround performance will feature voice augmented with the Singing Knit, a knit collar for capturing the laryngeal muscle movements through surface electromyography.
_luiszayas: multi-channel meditative performance
Luis Zayas is a composer, instrument designer and member of the Augmented Instruments Lab. Luis will be performing the software designed for their 2016 installation lifeSupport. It will be a meditative piece using sinetone oscillators tuned using just intonation and distributed around the room’s speaker array.
Lia Mice: DJ
Lia Mice is a multidisciplinary artist, instrument designer and member of the Augmented Instruments Lab. At this concert, Lia will DJ music featuring AI and new digital instruments. www.liamice.com @lia_mice