Leon Michener

Leon Michener is a London-born pianist whose music spans recordings of 20th-century classical music through to free jazz. Acquiring a small Moog synthesiser at the age of fourteen by saving a year’s worth of pocket money led to his passion for combining acoustic keyboards with live electronics. After graduating from Trinity College of Music he constructed his Klavikon system, a combination of piano, amplification, found objects, feedback and analog processing. Augmenting the 88 keys with his own inventions and found objects - custom-made microphones, toys, vibrators, and lots of blu-tak allowed him to deliver cascading batteries of percussion, sub-basses and dark abstract soundscapes. He has recorded on numerous labels, including a solo Klavikon album on the Nonclassical record label. His latest research has led him to resurrect and explore obsolete keyboard instruments such as the Clavichord, Dulcitone, and the Yamaha CP80 electro-acoustic piano.

For this performance, he will be playing on an amplified portable Clavichord, prepared with found objects, which has also been “hacked” to include a custom-assembled electro-acoustic-mechanical percussion instrument in its lid.

“Leon Michener has created something truly original” – Observer Newspaper

“An innovative and absorbing concept, carried through by Michener with no mean insight and technical finish” – Gramophone Magazine

“A pianist with extraordinary control of the instrument” – Wire Magazine

Rrose

Rrose is the latest incarnation of Seth Horvitz, an interdisciplinary artist from California (residing in London since 2015) whose 30+ year musical history weaves in and out of dancefloor culture and academic circles. Seth’s work focuses on the limits of perception and the idiosyncrasies of machines, and the Rrose project applies these ideas in order to create a noisy, yet intricately layered and immersive form of techno. From this core, the project extends its tentacles into specific pockets of the avant-garde, leading to collaborations with artists such as Bob Ostertag and Charlemagne Palestine and reinventions of works by 20th century composers such as James Tenney. Rrose’s first vinyl releases on the Sandwell District label came cloaked in mystery, as did the following string of releases on his/her own Eaux label. As a DJ and live performer, Rrose has appeared at warehouses, clubs, museums, forests, ventilations shafts, opera houses, and sweaty basements across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

http://rrose.ro | http://eaux.ro

Charlemagne Palestine

A pioneer of minimalist music and avant-garde performance, Charlemagne Palestine has spent decades crafting immersive soundscapes that defy convention. Known for his deeply ritualistic approach to composition, Palestine’s works often utilize drones, overtones, and layered harmonic textures to create transcendent listening experiences. His influence spans across multiple disciplines, cementing his place as one of the most significant figures in experimental music.