Friday 27 September 2024, 7.30pm
On Friday 27 September, The Tapeworm celebrates its fifteenth birthday with ‘TDK’ – Tapeworm’s Dalston Knees-up – at Cafe OTO.
In performance: Marta De Pascalis sculpting her unique soundscapes; Jay Glass Dubs with his tribute to Philip Jeck; Simon Pomery making a London debut for his forthcoming album; Dale Cornish playing the sound of young Croydon; The Howling providing ‘the missing link between John Cage and Suicide’; and Tears | Ov with a preview of their next release.
Doors: 7.30pm
Noise: 8pm
Marta De Pascalis’ sonic world acts as an uncanny translator that freezes and expands emotions, conveying them into unique soundscapes. Her solo works employ analog FM synthesis and a tape-loop system, whereby she carves waveforms to shape cathartic sound bodies. She has performed at several festivals and venues, notably Berlin Atonal, Museo Reina Sofia, Biennale di Venezia, Berghain, Volksbühne, Café OTO and Mutek Festival. ‘Sky Flesh’ is her latest album published on Caterina Barbieri’s light-years imprint. It follows releases on The Tapeworm, The Wormhole and Morphine Records.
Dimitris Papadatos is a composer, musician, producer and sound artist based in Athens, Greece. Under his nom de plume Jay Glass Dubs he explores, subverts and recontextualises the dub music genre. He has released on The Tapeworm, Bokeh Versions, anòmia, DFA Records, Ecstatic and Berceuse Heroique and also collaborated on critically acclaimed records with Not Waving (as Not Glass), Guerilla Toss and Leslie Winer. His work has been presented at festivals such as Berlin Atonal, Meakusma Festival, documenta 14, Bilbao BBK, Intonal, Skaņu Mežs and Terraforma’s Threes Productions as well as Macao, Portikus, WORM, Arkaoda, Kraftwerk, HKW, Paloma, Iklectik, Corsica Studios, Salon Des Amateurs, La Java and many more…
The Tapeworm’s first tape was 2009’s ‘Spool’ by the much-missed Philip Jeck. To honour his memory, Jay Glass Dubs will perform ‘Respooled’, a new composition using Jeck’s tape as his primary sound source.
Simon Pomery is an Irish sonic artist based in London. Since 2013 and under the name Blood Music, he has released on Diagonal, Superpang, The Tapeworm and The Wormhole. He has performed at festivals including Berlin Atonal, Les Urbaines, UH Fest and Elevate, and in clubs across Europe and Japan. Self-taught in guitar and drumkit from an early age, Pomery is a multi-instrumentalist, playing percussion, piano, Eurorack synthesiser and, as of 2023, Halldorophone. He works in genres including no wave, post-punk, techno, drone, and electro-acoustic composition.
His Cafe OTO performance will be the London debut of his forthcoming album for The Wormhole, ‘Skin String Sine’.
Native South Londoner Dale Cornish explores the edges of and similarities between experimental music, electroacoustic and dance music. Since being part of the London electroclash movement at the beginning of the 21st century, Cornish has carved out a singular path that both combines and distorts experimental and club music sounds and tropes into new and unusual forms. Cornish’s output includes five albums for Entr’acte and several editions for The Tapeworm. His most recent and celebrated work ‘Traditional Music of South London’ was released by Manchester’s The Death Of Rave in 2022.
The Howling is a collaborative project started by writer Ken Hollings and sound artist Howlround devoted exclusively to their shared love of text, audiotape and Trash Aesthetics. Described in The Wire as ‘the missing link between John Cage and Suicide’, The Howling dish out intense collisions of spoken word and pounding analogue tape effects. Their debut album ‘All Hail Mega Force’ was released by Tapeworm in 2022, followed by ‘Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway’ in 2023. Their track ‘David Gest, Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor’ was prominently featured in the Loewe SS24 catwalk show at Paris Fashion Week.
Tears | Ov are Lori E Allen, Deborah Wale and Lottie Poulet. They create expressive soundscapes using electro-acoustic methods and sample-based works, blending loops, field recordings, and live improvisations to explore themes of loss, transformation and love. Together and in other collaborative practices they have performed at Tate South Tanks, Iklectik, Whitechapel and Chisenhale Galleries.
