Saturday 10th May 7pm-9:30pm
SHIFT & The Tuner House present:
Ute Wassermann & Joke Lanz + Celyn of Gwent
Part of a series of performances showcasing the best experimental music and sound art from Wales & around the world.
Ute Wassermann & Joke Lanz
Joke Lanz (turntable) and Ute Wassermann (voice + objects) have been performing as a duo at international festivals since 2016. Their performance takes the audience on a rollercoaster of vocal, physical and electronic actions. A tour de force of technoid rhythms, cartoonish scraps of speech, twisted melodic fragments, stop-and-go grooves and loops. Their legendary concert at the Konfrontationen festival in Nickelsdorf (2019) was recorded by ORF and released on the Klanggalerie label in 2021. The CD Half Dead Half Alive was longlisted for the 2021 German Record Critics’ Award.
Joke Lanz
Turntablist Joke Lanz is known in particular for his internationally acclaimed project “Sudden Infant” and appreciated for his work in the area between performance/body art and improvisation/noise. He was born in Switzerland and now works from Berlin all over the world. He uses autonomous sound cells to create a personal language that is detached from any function. He combines ritualistic reductionism with anarchistic playfulness, atmospheric landscapes with fragmentary sounds and physicality with unpredictability: scratches, sound walls, grooves, loops, noises and vocal modulations.
Ute Wassermann
Vocal artist Ute Wassermann is one of the outstanding contemporary vocal artists. She has been touring the world as an improviser and performer of contemporary music for many years. In the last ten years she has increasingly realized audiovisual performances/installations and compositions for soloists and ensembles. She combines composition, improvisation and performance art to create her own form of Gesamtkunst, in which environment-related issues play a role. Her multidimensional sound oscillates between electronic, an/organic, animal and human qualities. She masks her voice with bird whistles, a DIY drum and objects, transforming her human form with a seemingly impossible vocal technique.
Celyn of Gwent
Celyn of Gwent is an artist creating at the intersection between popular music and the sonic avant-garde, integrating influences from electronica and the traditional music of the British Isles. Amongst their songs, they weave spoken word poetry and field recording. A queer bard for the anthropocene age.
Celyn of Gwent’s debut album ‘Dying & Rising’ is due for release Autumn 2025 – Supported by Help Musicians Next Level Fund.
Celyn music and sound design has been presented with organisations including The Royal Ballet, Wales Millennium Centre, The National Theatre of Great Britain, S4C (Hansh), Roundhouse, Stereo (Glasgow), Duckie, Pleasance, SPILL, Corsica Studios, Iklectik, The Yard, The Cube (Bristol), Dalston Superstore, and Rough Trade.
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