Gallery 46
In January, I did my first live performance at Gallery 46. For this performance, I did it as a live improvisation by using a radio, distortion pedal, and a sampler. this was an interesting experience and made me realise the possibilities of synchronicities through using a radio.
The most memorable moment of the performance to me was during the first five mins. I just turned the radio on and I hear a voice saying: “Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning into my first show. I hope everyone has a good time.” This was obviously a complete coincidence and it was personally enriching since this was literally my first performance in front of a live audience.
Rave
My next set took place at an underground party in North London. This performance was a bit disappointing for myself. There were several technical issues. The clock was failing and there was no radio reception. It was however, a great learning experience and it taught me that the club environment is not the ideal space for full improvisation to take place. People expect to be entertained and engaged with a dynamic sound.
See You When I See You
During the months of February, I was helping Travis out with some sound design and mixing for his show, See You When I See You. This was particularly interesting because I was working with actual musicians and physical instruments such as a flute, guitar, vocals, etc. This is something I’ve never really done before. It was also interesting because I did the show on quadrophonic sound. This was my first experience doing this in a live environment. It was a challenging experience but definitely turned out well and was fun.
Spake Easy
This was a short 20 minute performance organised by CSM where I performed through improvisation with my radio and sampler. Though not too exciting, it was a great experience for me and it was nice to have visuals in the back playing which provided my performance with depth. I was trying to synchronise them to the sound – to the point where the audience thought the visuals were interacting with the music, but it was not planned – just that it synchronised well.
Photography lcc dj set
For a recent BA Photography exhibition in Peckham, I did a short DJ set alongside iñaki. Nothing too crazy, but it was fun to match the music to the vibe. Some ambient-techno stuff.
LCF MA Show
As part of London Fashion Week, the LCF MA Graduates showcased their collections. I collaborated with some other sound arts students to create a soundtrack for the fashion show. I used three tracks of mine, an IDM song, and two techno tracks.
NHS advert
I collaborated with an LCC animation student to make an NHS ad for breast cancer awareness.
Film
I collabed with two film students to score their short films. For one of them, I collaborated with the director to make a composition. for the other one, I collaborated with iñaki through field recordings, foley, mixing, sound design and editing. it was quite demanding and took a long time
9 April:
Loop Cafe Broad Ln, London N15 4QT
My goal was to only use the Digitakt for this set. So I was limited to only using 8 audio tracks.
I wanted this set to be more fluid and melodic than my usual sets, just to try something different. Since the set was early and in a cafe I felt that doing a house/minimal techno set would work well.
I had to arrange the set beforehand and also do the mix inside the sampler. It was pretty hard to mix a whole set, when you only have 2 filters per track, so the main focus was on getting the gain-staging really well. It was a good exercise.
I recorded the audio with a field recorder and the video with a camcorder.
I also helped out making the music for a documentary on brigthon skate collective
Upcoming stuff
Im doing a gig at IKLEKTIK in a couple weeks, im planning on using more of the radio, and do some broken beat stuff on top
Im also doing a 4 hour mix for the upcoming Black Show, its an art exhibition/ fashion show hosted by LCF. Since its so much work im planing on collaborating with some other friends to get it done quicker.
I recently started volunteering at Cafe OTO as a assistant to the audio engineer, Cafe OTO has been my favourite venue since I arrived to London so its an absolute pleasure to be working there.