Friday 25 March 2022, 8pm
Antonina Nowacka has treated us to countless unforgettable performances over the years, both with her sister Bogumila Piotrowska in oneiric audio-visual duo WIDT, in abstract minimalist trio Szpety, not to mention her standout solo release on our own TakuRoku label. As Tristan Bath elegantly puts it, "her solo practice focuses solely on the voice’s inherent connection to mental states, its ability to speak wordlessly, and the apparatus of speech itself."
The appearance of Antonina Nowacka is supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
vocalist / composer / sound artist
Interested in the voice as the most organic synthesizer. Using extended vocal techniques, folk and eastern culture influenced vocal practices, space resonances as well as profound forms of sound processing and synthesis to create minimalistic imaginative landscapes.
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Receiver of a scholarship from the Indonesian Ministry of Culture in the subject of musicology. A student of hindustani classical music under the supervision of the Gwalior style vocal master Shashwati Mandal. A co-creator of multidisciplinary band WIDT and a musical duo Mentos Gulgendo.
http://www.antoninanowacka.com/
Komare is Dominic Goodman and Peter Blundell who also make up two-thirds of Mosquitoes. Somewhat of an estranged cousin to Mosquitoes take on re-ruffled rock, Komare resides more as a dub-influenced exploration of the outer fringes, creating a thick vibrational delusion. Somehow like Zweistein mixing a Robert Ashley record, Komare is an exceptional space and time stretching disorientator. In the process of rendering reality, redundant Komare gleefully lead the listener into a netherworld of holographic, hallucinatory audio. Shades of Monoton and Pyrolator may also be detected as can the impression of intoxicants wafting around the mixing console. This is a state where humans and machines, though present, are smeared of all traceable attributes. The depths of the journey move further into a netherworld as the sound progresses/disintegrates. Not necessarily one for the beauty seekers, Komare is an extremely deep trip concocted by two unbridled creative crusaders.
https://www.penultimatepress.com/product/komare-the-sense-of-hearing-lp/
https://soundcloud.com/quockenzocker/a5-komare-pp46-master
Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is a New York-based vocalist from Sydney, Australia. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice. She has performed with leading improvisers id m theft able, Ikue Mori, Sam Pluta, Tyshawn Sorey, Nate Wooley, and C. Spencer Yeh, and maintains ongoing collaborations with Conrad Tao, Victoria Shen, Zach Rowden, and Eric Wubbels. Charmaine has performed at ISSUE Project Room, the Kitchen, Roulette, The Poetry Project, and MoMA PS1, and participated in festivals including Resonant Bodies, Huddersfield Contemporary, and Ende Tymes. She has been featured in group exhibitions including The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging at the Museum of Chinese in America (2019). As a composer, Charmaine has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and Spektral Quartet (2018). In 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room and in 2021 a Van Lier Fellow at Roulette. Charmaine is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Sound American.
