An evening of musical performances from Warm Currency and Alexandra Spence as part of the exhibition Enigmagnetic by Jacqueline Rose at Woollhara Gallery.
Warm Currency is a new project by Sydney-based friends, artists and musicians MP Hopkins and Mary MacDougall.
Quietly intense folk music, song-poems, and concrète collages built from seemingly simple and delicate arrangements for guitar, keyboards, voice and tape. Their debut recoding Returns was released by London based imprint Horn of Plenty, and the duo recently completed a UK/EU tour. Recommended if you like Flaming Tunes, Nico, Alistair Galbraith, The Garbage and the Flowers.
Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions. Alex has presented her art and music in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America including BBC Radio; Ausland, Berlin; Café Oto, London; EMS, Stockholm; Punkt Festival, Kristiansand; Standards Studio, Milan; AB Salon, Brussels; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Sound Forms Festival, Hong Kong; MONO, Brisbane; The Substation, Melbourne; Soft Centre, and Liveworks Festival, with Liquid Architecture, Sydney. She has released her music with labels Room40, Longform editions, More Mars (w. MP Hopkins) and Canti Magnetici, and has a recent release with Mappa. (She holds the belief that electricity might actually be magic)