Wednesday 9 April 2025, 7.30pm
Two-day residency with Chicago / Queens computer music label, Party Perfect!, featuring Technical Reserve, Bryan Eubanks, Yan Jun, yPLO, and Michelle Lou.
yPLO (Paul Abbott & Michael Speers) is a project about imaginary drums and rhythms, using acoustic percussion and synthetic sounds. Their record 'ob TRU', was released by London-based imprint Feedback Moves in 2024.
Michael Speers (b.1992) is a drummer, sound artist and researcher from County Down, Ireland. Currently a PhD student at SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music, Belfast.
His practice incorporates percussion, feedback, digital synthesis and environmental sound. Recordings published by Anòmia, C.A.N.V.A.S., Party Perfect!, Wasted Capital Since 2013, Takuroku, Krim Kram and Feedback Moves.
Paul Abbott is a writer, sound and performance artist. He has played at venues and festivals internationally and was a resident at Cafe OTO. He completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Florian Hecker and Nikki Moran, and is currently undertaking research at Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp. He is also the co-founder and editor of Cesura//Acceso, a journal for music, politics and poetics.
Michelle Lou is SoCal based electroacoustic composer and performer whose work has been presented at festivals such as MaerzMusik, Rainy Days, Wien Modern, TimeSpans, Drone not Drones, and Donaueschinger Musiktage, amongst others. Releases include solo and collaborative work on the imprints Party Perfect, Carrier, Unknown Tapes, Kairos, and Dinzu Artefacts. Visit www.michellelou.com for more information.
Technical Reserve is the trio project of Hunter Brown, Dominic Coles, and T.J. Borden. Their singular improvisational language moves freely between discrete rhythmic shards, precision-oriented bombast, and floating, hazy abjection.