Thursday 10th November | 7pm | £12.50 ADV / £15 OTD, Concessions/Unwaged £7 ADV / £8 OTD
(Where these tickets are too expensive, pay what you can tickets are available via the link above)
An incredible double bill of contemporary Italian sounds and performance: Deep rhythmic precision from minimalist performers and instrument makers Passepartout duo and movement / sound artist, electronic composer and mythologist Francesca Heart.
Passepartout Duo are two italian sound artists and instrument makers are making a very rare UK appearance, their only other show is at Norwich Arts Centre. They play deeply hypnotic minimal music on instruments of their own creation. Shape-shifting rhythms draw you in to their mesmerising sound world and the rhythmic precision of their playing is nothing short of astonishing.
Check out their website and crazy cool works here
They seem to travel from one high-end artist residency to another, steadily building up a fascinating body of work that includes multiple albums and a whole series of homemade instruments including synths that incorporate carefully felted wool, a glockenspiel that can be played via a keyboard and percussively at the same time, and a machine that converts sounds received through contact mics into control signals to change the parameters of a synth.
Sound Commons is the new discographic release and live set created by Passepartout Duo, the centrepiece of which is a new electromagnetic instrument created by the group. The live set is a living creature that accompanies the duo during their constant travels, always changing and adapting to their new discoveries.
"Some of the most gorgeously sophisticated and refreshing exercises in minimalism you could hope to hear." - Joe Muggs, Bandcamp Daily (US)
Francesco Heart is Francesca Mariano (also Francesca Heart, Serpentine Dance) is a dance and sound artist with volcanic and marine origins in southern Italy. Her sound practice delves into the possibilities of computer music as a means to create devotional hymns and psychedelic aquatic fantasies that often draw inspiration from mythology and folklore as well as video game soundtracks and kitsch jingles. Her dance research is informed by hydrofeminism, science-fiction and care practices of collective becoming, with an interest in the abstraction of sacred iconography and pop culture.
Her latest album ‘Eurybia’ was released in May 2022 on Leaving Records. She is the founder of the somatic dance project Archaeo Choreology and runs Serpentine Dance Studio in Milan, a space for therapeutic dance. She co-founded Nuova Atlantide.
‘The sounds may be silky smooth, but in Heart’s hands they’re also exhilarating—a constantly unfurling tide of melodies spilling out in all directions at once while feeling eternally, peacefully still.’ Pitchfork
Francesco Heart