A noise-music matinee with performances from Méryll Ampe, Agata Genissel, birdsong inherited noise (Joe Davies), The Metal House, and Rectal Reaper (Aga Ujma and Alex McKenzie).
Poster: Adélaïde de Alfaro
Doors 7:30pm
Tickets £6-10 Sliding Scale
Méryll Ampe (b. 1984) is a French sculptor, sound artist and composer based in Paris. He conceives sound as a medium to be sculpted in real time and improvises from analog sources (synthé modular and drum machine). Playing with the interweaving of volumes, perspectives and dynamics, he creates sharp and very raw materials. He also likes to skirt the limits of sound and dig into its flesh with a permanent interest for roughness and porosity. In live performances, Méryll Ampe engages instinctively and radically, calling upon the listening of the place and the body that serves as a barometer to weave massive sound states that unfold, intersect, mix or decompose. The result is thunderous bursts of abstract noise and rhythmic saturations.
After studying wood sculpture at the Ecole Boulle (Paris), Méryll leads a visual and sound creation at the Beaux-Arts School of Paris-Cergy (fr). Méryll Ampe work is plural, his work takes the form of sound performances, compositions and sound installations. He has been working with artists, musicians, choreographers and video artists such as Mélanie Perrier, Elsa Brès, Boris Achour, Gorge Bataille, Anastasia Ax, Romain Perrot aka Vomir and Francisco Meirino.
Méryll Ampe compositions are published on the labels: Tsuku Boshi Records (fr), AudioVisuelAtmosphere (be), Audiotalaia (es), Musica Dispersa Radio (uk), Audition Records, (mx), Scum Yr Earth (fr), Misanthropic Agenda (us).
Photo: Patryk Grotych
Joe Davies is an artist. His recent works has take the form of a series of collaborations as a part of 12 april (CCA Glasgow) and friend city (London Performance Studios) (with George Lynch, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Alex Mckenzie and Hannah Taverner), The Listeners (The Horse Hospital with Grace Black) and XX-XX-XXXX (Westwerk, Hamburg with Richard Magee). He has exhibited his across a number of artist run and diy spaces in London such as Zona Mista, Spanners and Cafe OTO. This is the first instance of Joe’s sound project birdsong inherited noise.
Rectal Reaper is a collaboration between musicians Aga Ujma and Alex McKenzie. Improvised noise using harp, bass clarinet, and electronics. This gig marks the 1 year anniversary of their first duo performance.
Agata Genissel will be joined by perc head Joshua Barfoot on snare. Miscellaneous noise, mostly if not entirely improvised, using electronics, a solenoid, door-based audio, and snare.
The Metal House are a new four piece made up of artists Mike Hinchcliffe, Paddy Hornby, Simone de Villiers, and Oliver Chapman. They are debuting at The Horse Hospital with work they have created from a months long process of improvisation and songwriting using synths, organs, electronics, tapes, percussion and vocals.