31st January
spnm's The Sound Source presents:
ELLIOTT SHARP, guitar/laptop
with special guest CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, turntables
Doors 7.30
Performance from 7.45
£6 in advance from
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spnm's ground-breaking music night The Sound Source has its second date at the Luminaire, with two of the of the world’s most influential experimental practitioners and emerging British artists exploring the convergence of the roles of composer, improviser and performer.
The night features New York-based multi-instrumentalist
Elliott Sharp with special guest, Swiss-American artist and turntablist,
Christian Marclay.
The event begins with
Open Source in association with
Music Orbit, an experimental slot showcasing up-and-coming British artists, which will be recorded, and a free CD of the results will be given to audience members at the end of the night. In addition, experimental films curated by the Kilburn-based collective
no.w.here will be screened during the night.
A pioneer and leading light of New York's downtown scene for over 30 years,
Elliott Sharp is a brilliantly gifted performer, composer and producer. Tonight’s event sees him perform
The Velocity of Hue, a jaw-dropping solo guitar work inspired by country blues guitar and Central Asian musics. The programme also includes works for laptop interfaced with acoustic guitar during which Sharp will process guitar sounds and manipulate samples and grooves.
Since the early 1970s Sharp has been creating innovative and visionary music, drawing upon chaos theory and fractals and reinventing a variety of traditional instruments. When these did not suffice, Sharp created his own: slabs, pantars, violinoids, doubleneck guitarbasses, octars. He used computers and later samplers to design new sounds and virtual instruments. Sharp has released over sixty-five recordings spanning the musical spectrum from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He performs regularly both as a soloist and with a number of ensembles he has formed over the years, including the blues-oriented Terraplane and Orchestra Carbon.
Christian Marclay's trailblazing turntable experiments have led him to be described as ‘the most influential [turntable] figure outside hip hop’. He explores the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography and video. Marclay was born in California in 1955, raised in Switzerland and now lives in New York. He has exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at the Barbican and Tate Modern.
spnm's The Sound Source is the UK's leading out-of concert-hall new music night, bringing cutting-edge composition to new audiences and venues. The series showcases multimedia work and collaborations that cross art-forms. The Sound Source is a regular, bi-monthly night at the Luminaire.
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