Friday 10 January 2025, 7.30pm
Wild Wiring … an evening of the unreasonable, impractical and unrealistic.
Two duo sets collapse.
John Richards is known for his work as Dirty Electronics and the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics. It is mainly a fluid, live practice associated with the ideas of workshop-installation and performance-installation. As Dirty Electronics, he has created sound devices for various arts organisations and festivals, most notably Mute Records. His work combines music, performance art, electronics, and graphic design as well as having a socio-political dimension. He has also written numerous texts on DIY practices, performance of electronic music, and material approaches in relation to sound art.
Oliver Torr is an Athens-based multidisciplinary artist whose work in sound design and experimental music spans galleries, nightclubs and performance spaces. As a veteran of central and Eastern Europe's DIY music scenes, he has released albums, EPs and cassettes of experimental electronics. Torr has been a regular DJ and performer at Ankali, a techno/electro music club hidden in Prague 10. Over the last year, he has collaborated with Axonbody (Simon Kounovsky) as AXONTORR performing festivals throughout Europe - sci-fi sound production meets dystopic otherworldly visuals.
In 2019, Dirty Electronics and Oliver Torr collaborated at Prague Quadrennial, and, in 2023, released an album pi hiway on Mille Plateaux. This was one of the last albums to be released on the label before the death of founder Achim Szepanski. This year, they have begun recording a new album continuing their interests in abrupt electronic episodes and ad hoc scenarios.
https://www.dirtyelectronics.org/
https://www.instagram.com/dirtyelectronics/
https://www.instagram.com/oliver_torr/
Gwilly Edmondez emerged in the 1980s from Bridgend, South Wales, where he was a founder member of Radioactive Sparrow, once dubbed ‘the most legendary band you’ve probably never heard of.’ Gwilly practices a form of composition that disavows fixity and rehearsal, preferring an approach that dissolves the line between ‘life’ and ‘performance’ in ways that compromise neither. Having coined the term Wild Pop to describe his aesthetic as both a solo artist and as Gustav Thomas in YEAH YOU (est. 2013), his embracing the age of evaporation is manifest in a relentless autopathology oriented towards devotional sublimation.
https://www.instagram.com/gwillyedmondez/
https://www.instagram.com/ye_yu_fam/
Lategirl is Newcastle-based Spanish composer/improvisor Laura Stutter Garcia, purveying real-time future experiments with unilateral beat whippings, electronic improvisation with live vocal processing and hyper-saturated melding soundscapes. Part of Newcastle’s nascent international Wild Wiring project and performs with Gwilly Edmondez.
It started as my solo work that is more linked with production. I tend to stick to my way of recording voice on dictophone (or, these days, more often on my phone). Then I mash that lo-fi recording with samples, put my voice like a cherry on top … I play around with instruments from time to time, but I take nothing but voice onto the stage. Because only that (and me fiddling with software at home) is what truly represents what this artist is solo.
