Humming Grotto is a monthly series of sound and listening that (generally) takes place on Sunday afternoons, downstairs at the PBC...
Grotto numero 14 - with a very special line up - Jasmine Guffond gracing us from Berlin and Sia Ahmad and Evan Dorrian as Spartak
Sunday 19th February, 4-6pm.
Downstairs in the grotto at the PBC.
$15 on the door
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Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Focused on electronic composition across music and art contexts her practice spans live performance, recording, installation and custom made browser add-on. Through the sonification of data she addresses the potential of sound to engage with contemporary political questions and engages listening as a situated knowledge practice. She has exhibited and performed live internationally and released solo records with the Sonic Pieces, Karl Records and Editions Mego labels.
http://jasmineguffond.com/
As Spartak, Sia Ahmad and Evan Dorrian have released numerous collections of tweakers rock, jazz abstraction and minimal electronics on labels such as Low Point, Feral Media and New Weird Australia since 2007. They've performed around the Australian continent, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan alongside the likes of My Disco, Andrew Pekler, Lucky Dragons, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Minamo, Shigeto, Gold Panda, Mark Pritchard and Container. Performances are free-flowing improvisations, using machines and live instrumentation to create a singular wall of noise. This is their first performance together since June 2018.
https://spartakmusic.bandcamp.com/