I’m pleased to announce the 21st in the series of my extended residency now at Canvas and Cream Gallery in Forest Hill!
The evening features 3 sets – a solo by Khabat Abas, a duo by Thorjn and Genie Tempest, and a trio with Phil Julian, John Macedo and myself.
Please join us (and come early if you want to eat)!
More information: http://billthompson.org/aka_prof_lofi/mercury-over-maps-21
Mercury Over Maps #21
KHABAT ABAS – Cello and Electronics
Khabat Abas is a cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist from Kurdistan-Iraq. Her work explores time, space, and memory through music, everyday sounds, and noises. She delves deeply into how we experience sound, particularly in various geopolitical contexts.
THORJN AND GENIE TEMPEST
THORJN – Electronics
GENIE TEMPEST – Electronics
Genie Tempest is a vocalist, producer, and performer whose work merges abstract vocal techniques with digital signal processing. Blending Post-New Age aesthetics with noise, ambient, and electroacoustic sound, her music explores the space between emotional quietude and ambiguity. Her forthcoming debut album, Pulmonics, centres the voice as a multifaceted sound object in conjunction with laptop processing.
https://soundcloud.com/genietempest
https://genietempest.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5auWaKUOktRrvXOWH8Xhx5
PHIL JULIAN, JOHN MACEDO AND BILL THOMPSON
PHIL JULIAN – Electronics
Phil Julian is a UK based composer and improviser active since the late 1990s principally working with modular electronic devices and computers.
Audio works by Julian (and under the Cheapmachines alias) have been published on labels including Entr’acte, Superpang, The Tapeworm, Harbinger Sound, fancyyyyy, Conditional Records, Confront Recordings, Banned Production, Beartown Records, Staalplaat’s Open Circuit imprint as well as numerous compilation appearances.
Julian has collaborated on remixes, recordings and live performances with John Macedo, Dale Cornish, Jason Kahn, Andie Brown, Daniel Jones, Kostis Kilymis, Ben Owen, Michael Renkel, Tomas Korber, Angharad Davies, Dominic Lash, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Tom Mudd, Ryan Jordan, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders, Maurizio Bianchi and GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers and performing as part of Mark Wastell’s improvising group THE SEEN.
JOHN MACEDO – Electronics
John Macedo is an artist and performer from London. His work explores the connections and relationships between sounds, people, environments and technologies, often in intimate, immersive and interactive ways. He performs solo and has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and artists including Phil Julian, John Butcher, Steve Noble, Cath Roberts, Lee Fraser, Sue Lynch, Graham Dunning, Adam Bohman, Yoni Silver, Phil Durrant, John Edwards and many more. He has had recorded works released by The Tapeworm, Infant Tree, Hideous Replica, Sound Holes, and Beartown Records as well as releasing small run and object editions on his own label, The Black Plume Editions. He has performed and presented work in the UK, Europe and US and has led workshops and produced collaborative, educational and community-based projects for Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Artsadmin and New Contemporaries.
Bill Thompson is a sound artist and composer. He performs regularly as a soloist as well as in a number of groups including The Seen, zerøspace, and Airfield (with Ian Spink), and duos with Ian Stonehouse, Phil Durrant, and Yoni Silver. Past collaborations include performances with Keith Rowe, Faust, EXAUDI and others.
Although originally trained as a guitarist, Thompson has worked with live electronics for the better part of 15 years. In recent years he has returned to guitar using one built by Moog combining it with electronics with miscellaneous tabletop devices, found objects, flashing lights, and the occasional vibrator.
He has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award, the GAVAA visual arts award, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission, the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award, and was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Award.
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Mercury Over Maps is an extended residency by Bill Thompson at Canvas and Cream featuring performances, installations and talks with various collaborators and guest artists.