Live Electronics Concert in Spatial Audio
About this event:
- Category:
- New Music
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Date, time and location:
- , 7pm (doors open at 6.45pm) in d&b soundscape studios hackney, 117 Wilton Way, E8 1ES
Event information
Experience three new works for live electronics and ensemble in immersive d&b Soundscape spatial audio at Southby Studios. From dream‑spaces reimagined in sound to mythic transformation and shifting digital–acoustic worlds, this concert invites listeners into vivid interior landscapes shaped through performance, technology and storytelling.
Please note doors open at 6.45pm and performances start at 7pm.
Performers
For mixed live electronics ensemble
This piece is inspired by Gaston Bachlard’s book The Poetics of Space
In this book, Bachelard presents a psychological study of the spaces that are intimate to our lives, exploring how they shape our identity, memories, and sense of self. Ellen Vrana emphasises that it is about cultivating, housing, storing, protecting, and accessing the imagination and the emotions tied to imagination.
Bachelard puts the poetic image at the forefront of these space’s implications to our human lives and connection by claiming our imagination exists as these spaces rather than existing like them.
He discusses the idea of the oneiric (relating to dreams or dreaming), arguing that oneiric images are central to the poetic imagination and he analyses how these dreamlike images create a deeper, interior meaning for spaces.
The piece takes five examples of spaces and microspaces analysed by Bachelard in an attempt to translate these ideas of poetic image and the oneiric sonically. Through text instructions, the piece’s intention is to create a deeper, interior meaning for each of Bachelard’s spaces and microspaces, allowing them to transcend physical space and create an arc from the literal to the oneiric.
the ensemble will explore:
cellar
garret
wardrobe
chest
drawer
corner
shell
nest
Taha Kagzi live electronics
Miu Puntoomsinchai khaen
Anna Latham guitar
Max Kroon percussion
Benjy Sandler clarinet, saxophone
In British folklore, the Selkie is a creature of transformation. She sheds her seal skin as she emerges from the sea, assuming human form for fleeting moments. Yet she is fragile: if her skin is stolen, she can never return to the water, her home. The myth speaks of metamorphosis, blurring thresholds between body, identity, and place.
This work pulls at those threads. Voice becomes oceanic tissue, wrapping and clinging to the space. Spoken Old English intertwines with improvisatory Cornish folksong and electronic processing, dissolving boundaries between bodies and real–imaginary spaces.
The Selkie Suit is a wearable musical interface built through processes of crafting, where repetition itself became a path toward catharsis. This transcendent spirit carries into the performance, where voice becomes skin: looped, layered, and reclaimed.
The work mirrors the mythology: a body in constant flux.
Annie Chown director, live electronics, vocals
Sasha Chown spoken word
Uju Olisa costume design
Genia Isachenko will perform a set of music that uses found sound, field recordings and radio, exploring shifting digital and acoustic spaces, unstable rhythmic and harmonic structures. Genia Isachenko is a sound artist, vocalist, and researcher working across experimental music and performance. Their work is informed by an interest in subverting electronic music performance practices and ideas of authenticity/inauthenticity in performance.
Genia Isachenko vocals, live electronics
