IKLECTIK presents,
SPECIES PIRACY (LIVE PREMIERE) – Erewhon + Howlround + Angliss + Murmur + Ojon/Hobbs
Thursday 14 December 2023 | Doors: 7:30pm - Start: 8:00pm
Our Kiosk opens 1 hour before doors.
Tickets: £13 adv / £15 otd
Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.
An Anthropocene concert of resurrected species, robot ventriloquists and other ushers of the uncanny. The world premiere of SPECIES PIRACY, a live cinema / video synthesis work in response to de-extinction science by Amy Cutler, Robin the Fog (Howlround), and James Holcombe (Erewhon), with live performances and experimental sets by Sarah Angliss, Murmur Ensemble / Matt Lewis, and Ojon / Jim Hobbs and a discussion panel with scientists and filmmakers.
SPECIES PIRACY is an ensemble work resulting from Cutler’s artist residency at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB). Working in tandem, live cinema artist Amy Cutler, tape loop maestro Robin the Fog and filmmaker James Holcombe have developed new audio-visual and darkroom processes inspired by the black arts of de-extinction. This includes video synthesis and hacked nature broadcasts, as well as the launch of the world’s first 16mm film made in collaboration with AI and hand contact printing. Co-written by LCAB researcher Dr. Sarah Bezan, SPECIES PIRACY explores acts of splicing, mourning, dreaming and surviving. Robin’s quintet of battered tape machines will be running loops inspired by and sourced from species out of time.
Sarah Angliss
Sarah Angliss is an Ivor Novello Award winning British composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and robotic artist who composes for film, theatre and the concert stage, including her own live performance. Her music uses voices and orchestral and ancient instruments, augmented with Max, electronics and her own hand-built music machines. Angliss works as an automatist – a maker of musical automatons and sound-generating robots – while also repurposing existing inventions like the theremin. Sarah will be performing with her unique instrument, the Ealing Feeder, a 28 note robotic, polyphonic carillon based on automatically transcribed birdsong.
Murmur
Murmur – or The Murmur Collective Intelligence Ensemble – is facilitated by sound artist Matt Lewis. The ensemble brings together student and staff researchers at the RCA who meet regularly to explore relationships between Artificial Intelligence and critical collectivity creativity. Following a musical logic, the ensemble freely shares ideas and material produced by and responding to current AI tools, processes, and scores.
Jim Hobbs
Jim Hobbs utilises a variety of media including 16mm film, digital video, and installation design. His work investigates the personal and social implications of loss, oblivion, history, and subsequent acts of remembrance/memorialisation via ‘stand-ins’ or manifestations of absence. Intrinsically interlinked with this is a constant questioning of the role of the analogue within the digital age and how it functions, if it can override associations with nostalgia, and notions of the quality of image and how that relates to memory. He is a member of the Sound/Image Research Group and Programme Leader of MA Digital Arts at Greenwich.
Ojon
Ojon (Jono Crabbe) works with synths, drum machines and abstract electronics, often performing as a duo with Jim Hobbs. He has released music under several different monikers including Blind Poses, Coffin Factories and Blossomer. Hobbs and Crabbe will be collaborating with Amy Cutler on a new improvisation using 35mm carousel slide projector dissolvers in an unpredictable combination of automated, synthesised, and generated imagery, including 35mm slide film created with machine learning.
Erehwon
James Holcombe's practice merges a deep engagement with re-discovered historical, material and social processes of photochemical film production through single screen and expanded performance works. He single-handedly runs EREHWON, a darkroom and micro-laboratory in Frome, Somerset, and performs regularly with other analogue projectionists and improvising musicians.
Robin The Fog
Robin the Fog is a “One-Man Radiophonic Workshop” and founder of haunted tape splicers Howlround. He creates bespoke sound design and live performance and also runs the spectacular Iklectik annual extravaganza FOGFEST. His most recent album, 'INCREDIBLE NIGHT CREATURES OF THE MIDWAY', a collaboration with Ken Hollings, has been described as “the missing link between John Cage and Suicide”. He is also a freelance educator and audio preservation engineer, and is currently working at the British Library’s Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project, a nationwide attempt to preserve and document half-a-million analogue recordings at risk of degradation and decay.
Amy Cutler
Amy Cutler is a live cinema artist and immersive designer (RCA). She creates large-scale public experiences which challenge our templates for Anthropocene thinking, feeling, and organising. Recent shows include The Live Earth Show on the 360° cinema stage at Glastonbury Festival, NATURE’S NICKELODEONS at The Exploratorium, San Francisco, and Luciérnaga at UNAM, Mexico City. In 2022 she was awarded a Daphne Oram prize, which recognises important sound innovation by women and gender minority artists. Her album SISTER TIME was selected by Bandcamp for the ‘The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp: June 2023’.
Sarah Bezan
Sarah Bezan is Lecturer in Literature and the Environment at the Radical Humanities Laboratory at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the founder of the Cultures of Species Revival Research Group, a network dedicated to examining approaches to de-extinction science from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. She writes on speculative Anthropocenes and the "species revivalist sublime." Her research has been generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, the Killam Trust, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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