13 May 19

gamma

KARST and Electric Knife presents GAMMA, the third in our series of experimental sound performances. We want to showcase artists who think about music and performance differently - across industrial, electronic, DIY and beyond.
Venue
KARST
Starts
Friday, May 31, 2019
Ends
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Address
22 George Place Stonehouse Plymouth PL1 3NY
Location
South West England
Organiser
KARST and Electric Knife

gamma

NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS / ALICE KEMP / CONTRASTATE

Friday 31st Mat / 8-11pm
Tickets £5 Advance / £4 with Student Card / £7 On the Door
Book in advance via: http://bit.ly/KARSTgamma

+++

KARST and Electric Knife presents GAMMA, the third in our series of experimental sound performances.

We want to showcase artists who think about music and performance differently – across industrial, electronic, DIY and beyond.

NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS
https://nocturnalemissions.bandcamp.com/

The legendary Nocturnal Emissions, one of the best kept secrets of the industrial genre since the 1970s, set the bar long ago for industrial, dark ambient soundscapes. Founder Nigel Ayers presents a live audio visual show of dazzling organic and chemical animation with a unique sound world of wildlife and machine sounds that feels earthly & mysterious; mechanical yet human.

ALICE KEMP
http://alicekemp.net/

Alice Kemp lives and works in the south west of England, continually developing a practice of experimental music, audio composition, public and private performance, doll-making, drawing and painting. Subtle trance states, dreams, and disturbances inform her personal and cryptic yet coherent body of work, and her live [in]actions suggest a private mythology evolving through stillness, boundaries and aural stimuli. She has delivered these live obfuscations in England, Scotland, Germany, Belgium, France, Austria and Switzerland, and released sonic contemplations through the labels Fragment Factory (DE), Harbinger Sound (UK), and Erratum Musical (FR).

CONTRASTATE
https://www.contrastate.com/

Founded in 1987 by Stephen Meixner and Jonathan Grieve, with Stephen J. Pomeroy joining in 1992, Contrastate boasts one of the richest experience pools among the groups of the post-industrial movement. Initially embedded firmly in the tradition of industrial music and physical confrontation through sound Contrastate did not cease to evolve and slowly moved away from extremes and towards more balanced, subtle compositions. Their current style on the recent releases: A Breeding Ground for Flies (2012 Dirter Promotions) and the live album No Eden Without Annihilation (2016 Tesco Organisation) are situated somewhere in the realm of the avant-garde variety of dark, ritual ambient music combined with elements of experimental noise. Their diverse musical heritage exhibits unique electronic manipulations combined with stentorian vocals embedded in a heavy, surreal industrial background. They have long abandoned any attempt to reproduce studio work live, new material is specifically written for their performances, combining live electronics, acoustic instruments, sound manipulation and performance art. Contrastate is indeed a prime example of experimentation in music. Its artists constantly feel the need to try out different ideas, different ways of recording and different ways to use instruments.