Friday 4 September 2015, 8pm
Packed line-up from Penultimate Press featuring Australian publisher, event curator and sound artist, Mark Harwood – performing a special multi-channel/speaker set; one of Britain’s most mercurial musical figures in the form of Acolytes; ADSL Camels – aka Ben Crook of Eaux (ATP recordings); and a DJ set from Maggie Muldoon (Casual Sect). Please note that Graham Lambkin is unfortunately no longer performing.
Astor is the moniker of Mark Harwood, Australian publisher, event curator and sound artist who is now residing in London, United Kingdom. Under this guise he deploys a wide variety of techniques including field recording, musique concrete, electronics and spatialisation. All of these forms are approached with a sense of bypassing the cliches imbedded within in order to coerce a sound world which is simultaneously contemporary, foreign, beautiful, unsettling and engaging. Mark has released 2 acclaimed lp's on Kye (USA) and has a third 'Lina in Nida' on Penultimate Press (UK).
Acolytes is the alias of London based producer Denesh Shan, whose music probes a variety of forms both past and present to concoct a blurred mindspace. His work spirals around its own schizophrenic logic creating a haze of suggested melody, garbled vocal loops and an ebbing system of deferrals, as manifested on the 2018 release Rupture, released on Helm's Alter imprint.
After well received mixes on BCR, NTS, Bus Editions and Blowing Up the Workshop, and live dates with Helm, Drew McDowall, Oxhy, Lolina and John T. Gast, he is following up with some scattered dates around Europe and a forthcoming collaboration with Berlin's Alobhe."
Solo Project from Ben Crook of Eaux (ATP recordings). Instant melodic repetitive composition with imposed limitations on plugins and soft synths.
Singer of punk band Casual Sect. Amateur NLP scholar.
