Electronics at Eight
- 8pm
About this event:
- Category:
- New Music
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
Guildhall Electronic & Produced Music students present a programme of varied repertoire as part of our ‘at eight’ series curated by lead professor of Electronic Music, Elif Yalvaç.
Zhengyi Wang starts the night with a pulse-driven set of noise and dark ambient. Emily Marks follows and takes over the stage as VERA SACRA with an improvisation set of live electronics with cello. Finally, Krzysztof Zubek (piano & electronics) and Anton Sconosciuto (drums & electronics) unite their forces to present a set centred around live drums and piano, two tape machines and two samplers, with sounds captured and processed through cassette recording.
Free, no tickets required
Performers
Krzysztof Zubek and Anton Sconosciuto showcase recent collaborative explorations in improvised music centred around live drums and piano, captured and processed through cassette recording. Evolving out of individual practices of improvised music, the acoustic sounds played by the duo are printed live onto tape, and come back into the performance as a collective memory practice. Concentrating on timbre, impulse, reaction and flexibility more than on genre or outcome, the duo fully accept and bounce off what the tapes decide to give back to the performance, transferring the performative and mnemonic responsibility to analogue machinery.
VERA SACRA is cellist, improviser, and producer Emily Marks from Sheffield, based now in South London. Using a cello and computer, she explores liminality, spirituality and the surreal everyday. She crafts soundscapes by manipulating cello electronically, blending neoclassical textures with delicate vocals and focused production. Her writing crosses a range of styles - from soft ballads to deconstructed club and surreal ambience - kept cohesive by her cello.
"With her cello as compass and liminality as muse, VERA SACRA is charting out dream pop’s most spectral new frontier." - Babystep Magazine’
This set explores the intersection of noise and dark ambient, which also frames noise as a flowing melodic device. Anchored by drums that oscillate between clean and heavy, the set builds a continuously metamorphosing noise landscape.
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
