November 24th
Starts: 20:00
Entree: donations
At Boot122, Nijverheidskade 12, Utrecht
With:
– Random Reality;
– Elektortek;
– Holophrase;
– Owlbites;
– Etta Harbar.
Random Reality
Eelco Bosman is an artist based in Utrecht, with a career in abstract electronic music, drum ’n’ bass, dark jazz and harsh guitar music ranging from sludge to hardcore punk and everything in between and beyond. To name a few; beat focused electronics as s.u.b.c.o.d.e., guitarist in improv drone band 78RPM, guitarist/ sound designer in The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation / The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, guitarist in sludge-doom band Mary Bell.
For this performance Random Reality will bring two instruments, one acoustic and one electronic and some FX. Both instruments are made for drone based music. They have been designed centuries apart and are very similar and very much alike at the same time, and the way they sound together is not of this world.
Elektortek
Veerle Pennock is a creative electronics builder, living beep machine and conductor of a yet to be defined live-set setup, performing under the name Elektortek.
From self-made electronic instruments, midi sequenced radio’s and DIY modular synth experiments gone wrong, there’s always something strange bubbling away in the background. From lo-fi textures to evolving melodies and wobbly rhythms, her style can go from close-your-eyes-and step-into-my-spaceship-ambient to punchy acid in a fly.
Veerle is also the founder of Utrecht’s DIY creative electronics workspace Acid Solder Club at the Hof van Cartesius, and frequent local Helles and Schwartz hunter at Boot122
Holophrase
Holophrase is the solo project of Ruth Alison Clemens, hack academic, gap-toothed Brit, and saxophonist in the garage-surf band Evy & the Assholes. As Holophrase, Ruth builds lo-fi layers of ambient drone with improvised saxophone, loops, and effects. She mixes the acoustic possibilities of the saxophone with fragments of archival texts to build a soft kaleidoscopic soundscape.
Owlbites
Owlbites is a solo project of Thanos Fotiadis, a half-baked professional pianist and composer, who found his personal voice through an extravagant modular machine that behaves as if it has a mind of its own. Thanos is usually contemplating on how to bring more noise in his ambient environments, in order to quiet his own mind and hopefully connect with the universe. But recently he has been found to doodle in dangerous abstract (a-)rhythmic territories.
Etta Harbar
Inspired by loud and abrasive sounds, Etta uses circuit bent childrens toys, broken cassettes, radio static, and lots of guitar pedals to make her own brand of harsh noise music. You can expect to hear influences from genres like punk and tekno; she likes anything cathartic, chaotic, and emotional. She enjoys losing and regaining control of the music, going back and forth between control and chaos, with the intent of overwhelming the listener. Her live performances distort innocent and familiar sounds into something distinctly dark and uncomfortable.
Visuals
Rossi dB.
Ross de Baas (a.k.a. ‘Rossi dB’)
Ross is a musician from New Zealand, now permanently based in Utrecht.
He creates visuals and design for his electronic solo music and assists with promo for his pop / dance duo ‘Oxilogue’.
Lo-fi videos are filtered, manipulated and blended into textures. Using altered colours, layered screens and semi-abstraction, Ross presents mostly outdoor public spaces, devoid of people. Modern transit infrastructure and city-scapes, water, old European architecture and scenic footage from the Netherlands and New Zealand. It’s about finding solitude in any setting.
Popgunpirates
In 2010, musician and illustrator Henk Hop started exhibiting his work. He makes illustrations based on ancient iconography, symbols and centuries-old Dia de los Muertos subjects. An apparent contrast of old, new, beautiful and ugly.
Over the years, the techniques have broadened – by using the possibilities of the computer in addition to drawing by hand. Geometric shapes and complex compositions are programmed by using Processing, a free graphical library and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts, new media art.
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