Thursday 26 September 2024, 7.30pm
Unpredictable Series is hosting an evening of two audiovisual performances that beautifully highlight connections to India, futurism, and free improvisation. The lineup includes a set by Avinash Kumar & Murthovic presenting Elsewhere in India live set. The other act presents an improvisation by Aneek Thapar, Thomas Ridley, Sink, Blanca Regina and Benedict Taylor, with visuals by Pierre Bouvier Patron.
"Elsewhere in India" is a visionary audiovisual electronica performance set in a future where global cultures are on the brink of extinction. The narrative centers on Meenakshi, a cultural cyborg designed to preserve Indian heritage and foster harmony through traditional Indian performing arts. The project is an amalgamation of 3D video games, AI-generated art, motion-captured dance, and an anthology of futuristic stories from India set in 2079 AD. It creatively intertwines heritage, science, and society through the lens of emerging Indian electro-classical dance music.
Murthovic and Thiruda are pioneering Indian transmedia artists who have been at the forefront of the country's electronic music and new media art scene for over two decades. With a shared passion for pushing the boundaries of digital storytelling and cultural preservation, they have collaborated on numerous projects that blend cutting-edge technology with traditional Indian aesthetics and narratives. Through their work as musicians, visual artists, and creative technologists, Murthovic and Thiruda have created immersive installations, performances, and experiences that have captivated audiences around the world, earning them a reputation as two of India's most innovative and influential contemporary artists.They have performed at BFI London Film Festival 2023, Adelaide Fringe 2023, Roundhouse London, CPH:DOX 2024
https://www.instagram.com/elsewhereinindia/
Aneek Thapar is a British Indian music producer, engineer and sound designer from London. He has worked on records for the likes of Rival Consoles and Max Cooper, scored and mixed programmes for Netflix and Disney+ and is co-founder of the virtual instrument design company - VOID & VISTA
Thomas Ridley is an artist and producer from Bristol. Cutting his teeth in the world of analogue electronic composition and live performance, Thomas takes a collage-like approach to recording and resampling a small collection of analogue instruments, in search of compositions that are imaginative and unwieldy, but with enough muscle to move a dancefloor. His live shows are fully improvised, exploring sound live on a modular synthesiser, and responding to the audience and space.
https://thomasridley.club
Sink is London-based artist creating high contrast sound worlds thatexplore the beauty of purity and imperfection. Sink’s music isinfused with both pop and experimentalism, that brings togethermultiple languages across electronic, classical impressionism andfolk. Sink uses both acoustic and electronic instruments alongsidevocals to design soundscapes that bend genres and carry audiencesinto uncharted sonic territories.
https://linktr.ee/sink.wav
Benedict Taylor is a solo violist, violinist & composer, working in improvised and new music. As an improviser he likes to play and record with many super people, and over the years has worked with; Keith Tippett, Evan Parker, Terry Day, Lauren Kinsella, Lawrence Upton, Alex Ward, Cath Roberts, Tom Jackson, Renee Baker, Paul Dunmall, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Dirk Serries, Steve Beresford, Angharad Davies, Neil Luck, John Edwards, Ivor Kallin, Anton Mobin, Hannah Marshall, David Leahy, Adam de la Cour, Alison Blunt, Chris Cundy, Daniel Thompson, Kit Downes, Yves Charuest, Alexander Hawkins, Tom Challenger, Miya, Tetsu Saito, Erika Sofia Sollo, Gianni Mimmo, Stephen Crowe, Marcello Magliocchi amongst others.
Festival, venue and radio appearances include; Spontaneous Music Festival Poland, BBC Radio 3, Jazz en Nord Festival France, BBC Radio Late Junction, Cafe Oto, The Vortex, London Contemporary Music Festival, Tete a Tete Opera Festival, Ronnie Scott's, Aldeburgh Festival, Galway Jazz Festival, Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte Montepulciano, Southbank Centre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Fête de la Musique Berlin, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Manchester International Festival, Royal Court Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, Manchester Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Festival, BBC Radio 2, Resonance FM, Radio Libertaire - Epsilonia - Paris, Rotterdam Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Palm Springs Film Festival, London Film Festival.
He has an annual ongoing series of solo string albums, investigating the viola and violin in all manner of ways.
Blanca Regina is an interdisciplinary artist, tutor, and independent curator who works with spontaneous composition systems creating multimedia landscapes using voice, objects, electronics, and visuals. She is also looking at book arts, immersive media, and design. She has produced three albums with Beresford, mixed and mastered by Dave Hunt in London, ‘What Blue’ (2020) Duets with Steve Beresford; ‘Duets with Blanca Regina, Spontaneous Music’ featuring duets with Leafcutter John, Jack Goldstein, John Butcher, Benedict Taylor, Matthias Kispert, Aneek Thapar, Steve Beresford, Sharon Gal, and Hyelim Kim; ‘Art of Improvisers’ (2017) a collection album with several artists concentrating in women improvisers. With longtime collaborator and artist Leafcutter John capturing their live performances in 2017 they created ‘Miga’ a limited edition Pendrive and digital release. Other collaborations include performances with Laetitia Sadier & Marie Merlet ( ISIDORA) Matthias Kispert, DFuse, Peter Cusack, Matt Black, Wade Matthews, Terry Day, Adriana Camacho, and David Toop.
Pierre Bouvier Patron is a visual artist based in London. He is currently working with different media, such as digital video and film, exploring the boundaries between them and creating moving image works, performances and installations. He has developed various practices and skills in experimental film, documentary films, music videos, etc.
He is involved in video screenings and video performances, solo or in collaboration. His work has been shown in France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, etc.
Jordan Smart is a multi instrumentalist and composer known for his work with bands Mammal Hands, Sunda Arc and Vega Trails. He specialises in saxophones, reeds and flutes, and has studied many folk music traditions from around the world, especially Irish, Arabic, Greek and Indian. He tries to synthesise the different approaches to improvisation and composition from these traditions with his own voice and musical upbringing and background.
