Tuesday 13th June | 7pm | £8 advance tickets (OR email info@adhuman.co.uk to purchase)
Two of the USA's most unique and exciting Experimental Audio Artists visit Brighton. Silence, speech and terse noise meets dizzying, socio-political electronic cut up sound.
Sunik Kim is a musician, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. Their work has been consistently driven by a sonic, social and political interrogation of a "Korean Music", with 2019's 'Zero Chime' having been describes as 'a sound-weapon aimed at the West [...] a shamanic Korean colony-music exorcising the ghosts of historical subjugation'. The album is a non-stop barrage of hyper-speed cut up sound merging blinding free jazz in the vein of Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, sculptural computer music and mid-90s jungle.
Their last album, 'Raid on the White Tiger Regiment', was released in 2022 on Notice Recordings and drives this methodology into ever more distinct conceptual territories. Named after one of the eight core revolutionary operas produced during the Cultural Revolution, focused on the joint struggle of Chinese and Korean communists during the Korean War, 'Raid..' sees Kim manipulating free orchestral soundfonts via custom made Max/MSP and Supercollider at hyper-speed tempos.
“Kim’s Raid on the White Tiger Regiment is a dense, sticky, web-whirlwind with the shimmer of an object moving at hyper-speed. Despite the weight of the album’s themes, its soundscapes cover immense ground.”
Dominic Coles is a composer & improviser based in Queens, NYC. His work investigates the interactions of place, personhood, and power as they are articulated in sound, attempting to complicate and intervene in these categories through specific acts of technologically mediated listening. Coles has released work on labels such as Editions Wandelweiser Records, Party Perfect! and Spricht Editions.
His 2022 work 'she had been having a crisis of conscience and had lost her faith in the market' is a slow paced, fragmentary journey through repressed anxieties about money, labor, power, and sexual intimacy, expressed by a verbal recounting of a dream recorded during the protagonist's commute to and from their place of work. The text, captured roughly via phone voice message amidst the fast pace of the world at work, are placed beside sparsely positioned electronic glitches, passages of silence and the noise of digital interference.
“Coles offers a kind of electronic map of dreaming brain activity, doling out spikes and pauses that are like firing neurons. It’s a disorienting listen, but one that might stick with you—much like the most memorable dreams do.”
Shit Creek is a musician who paints and takes pictures. Shit Creek is known for drawing on an array of instrumentation and sound sources in the creation of their deeply penetrating, abstract psychedelia. More recent performances have seen a move from guitars, violins, synthesizers, EFX and reed instruments toward ultra cut up samples of found and popular music.
“Shit Creek make music that is unidentifiable in source and unclassifiable in terms of genre. There is a hectic frenzy to some aspects that wrest it from ambience, and yet the clutter of instrumentation is so lo-fi that it seems undeniable that this is a very contemporary ambience. Rather than the escapism I first thought it to be, this seems much more like an eloquent analogue of the modern world.”
Neo Geodesia is Saphy Vong who was born in a Thai refugee camp after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, and grew up in the suburbs of Nancy, northeastern France. His unique musical outlook fuses the experimental and DIY ethos that can be found in both the local Nancy punk and grindcore scene that embraced him as a teenager, and the sounds broadcasted from Cambodia into his home through his parents pirated tapes and videos of Khmer pop, karaoke, monk chants and movies.
His recent project has been dedicated to fusing experimental electronic processes with traditional Khmer music and exploring the far edge of sonic expression to include noise, folk, ambient, metal, Bek Sloy, funeral Smot, Khmer karaoke love songs and Roam Vong.
Over the years, however, he has focused his approach less upon heaviness than slipperiness, granular textures and head-spinning polyrhythms.
Active for more than a decade under the alias Lafidki, he has produced, composed and released electronic music for Orange Milk Records. He and his music has been featured in Resident Advisor, NPR, Mixmag, The Quietus and Bandcamp Daily. He currently lives in London and runs the multidisciplinary Asian platform and record label Chinabot, on which he released his latest album 2562 Neon Flames.