Tuesday 10 September 2024, 7.30pm
Suroor is a South Asian improvised performance group with an evolving line-up of contributors - this iteration brings together a new collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Nabihah Iqbal, former Asian Dub Foundation member Dhangsha and Emptyset's Paul Purgas. Working across guitar, synthesis, drums and voice the trio forefront their shared explorations of ritual electronics, atmospheric textures and hypnotic rhythms, conceived through evocations of myth, transcendence and syncretism.
Suren Seneviratne's Missing Music project documents rare and obscure music applications, patches, software art and plug-ins that were once available for the Macintosh computer during the turn of the millenium. It exists simultaneously as a blog and a live performance; a living database of over 200 audio & music tools on missingmusic.medium.com and an audio-visual concert using vintage Mac computers and video projectors creating an immersive deep-dive into the sonic and visual aesthetic of the Y2K era.
Sijya is a composer, producer and designer from New Delhi, India, who lays down textural abstractions of her inner monologue, embodying the new wave of distinctive sonic practise emerging from South Asia. Her debut release Young Hate was released by Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Records and accompanied by the remix collection Young Love.
Nisha Ramayya grew up in Glasgow and now lives in London. Her poetry collection States of the Body Produced by Love (2019) is published by Ignota Books. Her second collection will be published by Granta in 2024. Tentatively called Now Let’s Take a Listening Walk, it hazards a musical journey through history, myth, and sci fi. Nisha teaches Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London.
