8–9 April 2025
Two-day residency with Chicago / Queens computer music label, Party Perfect!, featuring Technical Reserve, Bryan Eubanks, Yan Jun, yPLO, and Michelle Lou.
yan jun, a musician and poet based in beijing.
he works on experimental music and improvised music. he uses noise, field recording, body and concept as materials.
sometimes he goes to audience’s home for playing a plastic bag.
“i wish i was a piece of field recording.”
yanjun.org
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.
Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, US) develops his music through solo work and collaboration. Since 1999 he has participated in many short and long term projects, and regularly presents his work internationally. Continually active in a variety of contexts: improvisation; composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and electronics; organizing and curating concerts for other artists; building electronic instruments. Directs the label Sacred Realism and has ongoing projects with Catherine Lamb, FJE Trio, Jordan Paul, Werner Dafeldecker, and others. Lives in Berlin since 2013.
https://www.sacredrealism.org/artists/bryan-eubanks/
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.
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.
