Phantom Limb x Pop Mutations
Pop Mutations presents an evening of live music, streamed in collaboration with Phantom Limb touring artist agency and record label.
https://www.phantom-limb.co.uk/
Line up:
Tasha Wada Group
Hekla
Jason Sharp
Tickets £10 available from www.popmutations.com
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Tasha Wada Group
Tashi Wada is a composer and performer based in Los Angeles. Grounded in a belief that “music should be as direct as possible,” his compositions use apparently simple structures to generate rich and unanticipated perceptual effects. Wada studied composition at CalArts with James Tenney and for many years performed alongside his father, Yoshi Wada. He has presented his music internationally and collaborated with a range of artists includingCharles Curtis, Simone Forti, and Julia Holter. Wada founded and runs the label Saltern. His most recent album Nue was released by RVNG Intl.
Tashi's set for this performance will serve, in part, to pay homage to his dad, Yoshi, who sadly passed away in May. Tashi performed many times internationally with hs father, who was revered internationally as a proponent of the Fluxus art movement.
Hekla
Iceland native and resident Hekla’s sparse, delicate, fractal music exists within two worlds: dark and magical as Iceland’s permanight folklore; and (though beatless) as deeply sonic and intense as nostalgic electronics.
A long-term globally recognised scholar of solo theremin, Hekla (shortened from her own name Hekla Magnúsdóttir) uses her instrument as an otherworldly and highly evocative Siren-call. A spectral, wailing, howling, lamenting yearning second-voice that underpins a soft vocal delivery, as if her studio had been haunted with a chorus of ghostly backing singers.
Hekla is performing a mixed set of her own evocative original works, and her interpretations of the works of the late Icelandic composer Magnús Blöndal who was a founder member of Musica Nova in 1959, and was at the forefront of the Icelandic avant garde and a pioneer in electronic music
Jason Sharp
A mainstay of Montreal’s avant-jazz, experimental and improv music community formany years, Jason Sharp is a saxophonist and electro-acoustic composer whose increasing focus on solo work since 2015 has yielded an intense and immersive corpus of music that fuses technology and the human body. Sharp blends a mastery of extended saxophone technique with customised microphones and electronics that translate his horn, breath and physical pulse into an array of triggers, samples and modular synthesis–resulting in formidable, visceral, highly evocative and unfailingly musical works of electroacoustic biofeedback.
Jason Sharp is performing an immersive live presentation expanded in the vein of his August 25 Constellation Records release 'The Turning Centre Of A Still World', titled FYEAR featuring collaborative poetry from the writer Kaie Kellough and visuals; focusing on themes of "Contemplation of our struggles, our fictions, and our freedom." They question coloniality and reference eco-poetics while nimbly improvising within the strictures of electroacoustic composition. Its mixed-media compositions invoke the urgency of the troubled moment while levelling a gaze at the future.
Featuring:
FYEAR is comprised of Jason Sharp (compositions, electronics, bass saxophone), Kaie Kellough (text, voice),
Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel), Stefan Schneider (drums), Jahsun (drums), and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (type and visual design).
Together, FYEAR draws us into a contemplation of our struggles, our fictions, and our freedom.
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15/01/2021 - 7pm (UK time) - tickets £10 available from: www.popmutations.com