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Somerset House Studios

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Thu 26 Nov
19.30 - 22.20 GMT
Online
Part of Amplify 2020

A programme of music performances from this year's Amplify cohort. 

Somerset House Studios continues its partnership with MUTEK and the British Council on Amplify Digital Arts Initiative, a residency that connects and empowers an active network of women-identifying artists and professionals working in the digital arts, sound and immersive storytelling sectors in Canada, Latin America and the UK.

Thursday evening's online programme will include rebroadcasts of Canadian-based artists Ouri and Obuxum's performances for MUTEK Edition 21, exclusive sets from Argentinian artists CANDIE and Whisky with Flor De Fuego, plus a new work filmed from Somerset House by UK artist GLOR1A. 

In partnership with British Council and MUTEK. Canadian Amplify artists are supported by the British Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

 

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About the artists

CANDIE
Milagros Castillo AKA CANDIE is a multimedia artist who experiments with different languages and techniques such as installations, sculpture, digital collage, video art, performance, design and music production. Her works are generated from discourses such as popular culture, social criticism, introspection and the technological era that precedes us, making use of visceral and industrial aesthetics to create dark, surreal and grotesque atmospheres. 

GLOR1A

GLOR1A sees herself as a malleable form: nostalgic in her approach, but futurist in her concepts. She strives to marry music, art and technology wherever possible, and actively imagines how African diaspora will be visualized in the future. Along with 3 established artists, she initiated Nine Nights, a music TV series presenting black music, visual art, film and performance worldwide whilst contributing to black-focused charities. She has collaborated with key figures in the black experimental space including music artist GAIKA on a commissioned live soundtrack for Khalik Allah’s cult film Black Mother, and building an AI-powered vocal symphony for Somerset House. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she created technology-laced educational art from her bedroom, starting an online-only series called Dystopian Futures, a collaborative interview and performance show looking at activism, art and technologies effects on shaping the future.

A black and white photo of GLOR1A. She is leaning on a brick wall and posing to camera.

Obuxum

Throughout Obuxum’s catalogue of tightly-coiled percussive beats, nestled in between experimental electronic and hip hop spheres, her music amplifies and resonates the voices of the Black, Brown and Indigenous women she says have inspired her to “endlessly remain courageous, daring and bold.” As a youth worker at a community centre, Mohamed describes learning her craft as a happy accident, after signing up for a sampling course that taught her to pull from her own expansive musical knowledge to form something unique. Inspired by Flying Lotus, she began mixing field recordings and drum patterns into Reason and Ableton, creating huge, spacious sounds spanning otherworldly synth squiggles to trap-influenced opera, many of which come in at an urgent and immediate two-minute timespan.

A black and white photo of Obuxum. She stands amongst lots of plants and looks straight to camera.

Ouri

Ouri was tapped for Red Bull Music Academy’s 2017 Montréal Bass Camp, leading to the encapsulation of a Live and DJ Boiler Room performances, and has enjoyed an increasing number of big stage activities in 2019. Having released with Make It Rain (CA) and Ghostly Int. (US), she produces, engineers and creates music for her solo career and many collaborative works.

 

She has done commission work (MoMA PS1, Nintendo) and soundtracks for ads and movies (Les nôtres, Chez les heureux de ce monde, Swarovski China, Ganni). Ouri's multi-instrumental talents and classical training steer her electronic approach to melody and bass in entrancingly emotive, bold and playful ways, pairing traditional song structure with abstract spatial dynamics. Using synthesizers (Moog Sub Phatty and Dave Smith's Prophet 08), steel-guitar, cello, harp and multiple effect pedals both in recordings and live, she builds atmospheres of transcendental tension between aggressive rhythmic progression and a soothing harmonic fluidity.  

 

Whisky with Flor De Fuego

Whiskey is a theater, music and performance project active since 2014 that has presentations in Argentina, Spain, Italy and Germany. Macarena Fuentes and María Mar Perez compose live with synthesizers and vocoders, creating a dark and diffuse soundtrack for the theatrical and performance performances they themselves design and direct.

 

Alonso’s art practice as Flor de Fuego investigates digital image and media, producing images and sounds related to live coding, animation, video and the Internet. She has produced projections for full dome live coding at the Planetarium of the City of Buenos Aires and Bogota, and at the Domo Lleno 2019 festival with Iris Saladino. Together with Francisco Raposeiras, she is part of a duo called “c0de p03try” where they work with a performative audiovisual proposal that combines code, chaos and poetry as concepts to be developed. 

 

The work they are presenting was filmed and edited by Ivana Salfity and Cecilia Lutufyan.

 

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Part of Amplify 2020

Connecting and empowering an active network of women-identifying artists and professionals working in digital art, sound and immersive storytelling

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