The People's Republic is thrilled to return to full capacity with the launch of a new cassette by one of Sydney's premier sound artists, with two very special guests... ALEXANDRA SPENCE with Megan Alice Cluneand MP Hopkins Sunday May 2nd at 7 p.m. [doors at 6.30]
ALEXANDRA SPENCE is an artist and musician living on Gadigal country. She has a current, near-spiritual, obsession with the animation of material and object through sound. Alex has performed and presented work on radio, in concerts, festivals, symposiums and galleries including the Vancouver Art Gallery; Late Junction, BBC Radio 3; Ausland, Berlin; Musée Guimet, Paris; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong's Sound Forms Festival, HK; Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane; MCA ARTBAR, and Liveworks Festival with Liquid Architecture.
A NECESSARY SOFTNESS is her sophomore Room40 release:
https://alexandraspence.bandcamp.com/album/a-necessary-softness
"Sydney based artist Alexandra Spence creates a cascade of inter-relational sound worlds with her new edition A Necessary Softness. Waves of sound cycle into and out of phase with each other, field recordings revealing a sense of location adrift. It’s a record that is rooted in performance and in the gestures of the body. It’s also a record of sensing and being sensed, a reaching out into the world and a willingness to allow the world to reach inward.”
MEGAN ALICE CLUNE is a musician composer and artist. Her work considers music in relation to technology, the body and temporality. She has presented work and undertaken residencies across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, including 3331 Arts Chiyoda (TYO), VividLIVE at the Sydney Opera House, Next Wave Festival (MEL), Underbelly Arts Festival (SYD), Performa 15 (NYC) and Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (MA).
Her forthcoming album ‘If You Do’ will be out in June on Room40.
MP HOPKINS is an artist working on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia, who makes audio, performance, installation, and textual works. He uses voice, feedback, recording/playback devices, and verbal notation within different acoustic environments, which are then deconstructed and presented to the listener in delicate and degraded ways. Hopkins has released recordings with Penultimate Press, Canti Magnetici, Tahalamos, Albert’s Basement, Mappa Editions, Aussenraum Records and Regional Bears. He has performed locally at events organised by the NOW now, Liquid Architecture, Avantwhatever, and The Make it Up Club. International appearances include Café Oto, UK; LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore; Les Ateliers Claus, Belgium; TUSK Festival, UK; and Colour Out of Space Festival, UK. He regularly collaborates with Italian artist Renato Grieco in the duo Double Goocher Shop, and Sydney sound artist and musician Alexandra Spence.
https://www.mphopkins.com/
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