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stripped back dramaturgical decisions for absent artists, computers and texts

this event format investigates listening = presence = decentralisation

Mel Baggs (RIP)
Elizabeth Glass (US/MEX)
suny fum (UK)+ Elisa Lind (UK) + Mlondiwethu Dubazane (SA)
Bahar (UK)
Blümchen (DE)
Charles Verni (UK)

note country code behind artists' name refers to artists' location at the time of the event not their background - in this curation non-native english speakers appear alongside english native speakers in a 50/50 ratio.

this is not a radio show

with contributions ranging from artists shy, artists abroad, artists dead and yet others that never held a physical body the event format plays with mediated presences collaborating with dancers, movers and performers as well as simply guests and friends invited to take part in extending the idea of a live concert

LINEUP:

Bahar writes, does spoken word and plays byzantine guitar : my name is bahar, I have found my voice in guitar strings and as a homage I like to visualise the music I create as a vessel to weave strings of experience together to form a canvas where whomever is observing can paint freely over sketchy birdsongs.
@imjustpleb

Charles Verni is a musician based in London. Their work uses humour and experiments with genre as a means to try and come to terms with popular song, digital audio, and the voice. Their most recent album “I’m Crazy” was released by Vienna-based Plot Toy on CD and digital, with other projects including “I Was Today Years Old” and the radio play "Not That Deep”. Recent live performances have taken place at Festival Hyperlocal, Buenos Aires, and Clout Farm, London, with radio highlights including mixes and original audio for NTS and BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Elísa Lind is deeply interested in the movement of the body as a way of expressing the sensations that move within the body. Moving whilst attending to the feeling of the body, following sensations through the body, engaging her quality and character through movement. Elísa’s background is in care work where for about 11 years her curiosity brought her across diverse practices of care, where either illness of the mind or of the rest of the physical body was attended to. Now Elísa is studying the felt sense as a bridge between the mental, physical and mystical planes of experience.

Elizabeth Glass interrogates spatio-temporal dimensions of drama. Recently has worked in collaboration with Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo, Vaca 35 Teatro en Grupo,Teatr Pieśń Kozła and La Cabra Salvaje Teatro.

Mlondiwethu Dubazane is a South African Creative, Sound-Designer, Arts and Mysticism enthusiast, performer and improviser. As an artist and sonic-feeler, he creates, as an offering toward the movement of forces that are thrumming within us all.
https://mlondiwethu.bandcamp.com/

suny fum aka buny experiments with vocals, samples of low-fi audio recordings and their capture for broadcast and live concerts
www.69pleasuredome69.bandcamp.com

+ additional bootleg transmissions featuring Mel Baggs and Blümchen

Mel Baggs was an American non-binary blogger who predominantly wrote on the subject of autism and disability. At times, Baggs used a communication device to speak and referred to themself as a low-functioning autistic. Revelations about Baggs's past created some uncertainty about their diagnosis.

Blümchen in her Herzfrequenz era in 1995 was a happy hardcore music project by Hamburg born singer Jasmin Wagner.