Alan Wilkinson, Alex Ward and Jem Doulton at IKLECTIK to launch their self-titled CD, released in July 2022 on Shrike Records, described on Radio 3 as an “apocalyptic punk storm”.  
https://shrikerecords.bandcamp.com/music

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Wilkinson + Ward + Doulton

Alan Wilkinson

Alex Ward

Jem Doulton

Gigs

London

IKLECTIK

First Terrace Records invites you for a night of experimentation, and transportation from the wonderful NikNak who releases her new EP ‘Night’ on First Terrace Records. Joining the lineup we have very special guests with Nexcyia and Xana. Not one to be missed.

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First Terrace Records: NikNak Release Party + Nexcyia + Xana

Nexcyia

NikNak

Xana

SDF present a coming together in the winter darkness. A launch party for their wild pop disco album “Rhythm Of The Rubicon” recently released on Lost Map Records alongside the legendary fractured psychadelics of Brood Ma & intense neo-darkwave electronics from Obscenity State & on the decks the transcendent, techniclour glory of Chooc Ly, Ammonite & outlookexplorer. One more time against the night for a Party-Especiale.

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SDF + Brood Ma + Obscenity State & Special

Brood Ma

Obscenity State

In Lucid Dreams We Dance presents an evening of experimental sounds and performances.

Combining DJ sets, projections and installations, artists Turbo Sud, Melania Toma, Kreshik, and Hawazin O will take us on a mystical journey through sounds and imagery.

The programme will explore rituals and folklore in relation to electronic music and parties, intended as relational spaces where artistic practices intersect. Visual and auditory stimuli originating elsewhere will intersect at IKLECTIK turning participants into travellers. On this occasion, the second issue of ILDWD zine will be launched, featuring contributions from participating artists, extending the journey in print.

The project is supported by The Italian Council (11th edition, 2022), the program aimed at supporting Italian contemporary art in the world promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture; In Lucid Dreams We Dance 2 at IKLECTIK is realised thanks to the support of The Italian Cultural Institute in London.

In Lucid Dreams We Dance is a multidisciplinary research project curated by Clara Rodorigo in collaboration with Jael Arazi, exploring electronic music, independent parties and clubbing and their potential in generating a sharing dimension. The project consists of a programme of events and the publication of a zine to explore themes of community building, rituals, and sharing in the physical and relational space of the club.

The event is fully wheelchair accessible.

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In Lucid Dreams We Dance 2

Hawazin O

Kreshik

Melania Toma

Turbo Sud

Improvisation is often presented as prioritising dialogue between the players. In this concert, we will be focussing instead upon sound, in the belief that it is the quality of sound that actually conditions the possibilities of dialogue and, beyond this, the form of the music itself. For this reason, there will be a mixture of acoustic and electronic instruments (including voice), to allow for the widest possible range of new sounds within the parameters of an improvised performance.

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Electro-acoustic responsiveness: improvised trajectories

Rattling Branch

Eddie Prévost

John Butcher

Tony Hardie-Bick

An evening of noise-pop, improvisation and wildly inventive underground electronic dance music kicking off the 10 years of YEAH YOU anniversary year with support from Wobbly (Jon Leidecker).

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Yeah You + Wobbly

Wobbly

Yeah You

An evening of ethereal electronica and euphoric analogue synth driven ambient and techno.

**Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.**

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Surgeons Girl + Hard Fantasy

Surgeons Girl

Curatorial collaboration Irruptive Chora invites the public to join their experimental, technology-focused project Hyperspace coinciding with the launch of their digital platform. The interactive hybrid display of art works and series of performances culminate year-long peer-led study into new hybrid ways of making and sharing art. Together they create an accessible affective space for multi-sensorial encounter.

Programme:

12pm – Interactive multimedia display of technology-driven art works and project traces of the HYPERSPACE artist collective (live experimentation & improvised performative interventions)

1pm – 1:30pm Sara Rodrigues / Landra (The Paths we Take: acorn infusion performance)

1:30 – 2pm Sotiris Gonis + Ania Mokrzycka (audio-visual performance)

2pm – 3pm Will Harris (spoken word performance – live broadcast through Resonance Extra)

3pm – 4:30pm Ekin Bernay (participatory performance)

4:30pm – 5pm Natalia Janula (listening session)

5pm – 5:45pm Kenric Allado Mc Dowell (performative talk & audio-visual projection)

5:45pm – 6:30pm Ada Hao (audio-visual performance)

BREAK (warm vegan meal sharing)

7:30pm- 8:00pm Lea Collet (collective reading performance)

8:15pm – 8:45pm Pietro Bardini (sound performance)

9pm – 9:15pm Maja A. Ngom (sound) / Rachel McRae (scent)

9:25pm – 9:45pm Atay Ilgun – ecolagbohrsac2021 (sound performance)

10:00pm- 10:30pm Cyrus Vahidi – Rastegah (sound performance)

10:30pm + DJ

Hyperspace project is funded by Arts Council England, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland and Italian Cultural Institute London. The project partners include Shape Arts and Resonance FM.

**Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.**

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HYPERSPACE

Atay İlgün

Calling Cards Publishing Presents: Economy Of Meaning – Site Seeing Album Launch

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Economy Of Meaning + Malvern Brume + ТЕПЛОТА + Sonic Envelopes (DJ)

Veteran London film freaks My Eyes! My Eyes! present an(other) evening with UK director, Ben Wheatley with a screening of ‘In the Earth’. Joining Ben will be author John Higgs for a post-screening conversation.

Join us for an unforgettable night with Ben’s searing (almost) companion to ‘A Field in England’. ‘In the Earth’ is a film best seen on a big screen and in ear widening sound. IKLECTIK’s Amoneus 3D sound system will speed yr trip.

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My Eyes! My Eyes! presents In the Earth

film

Film

An evening dedicated to fundraising for the London-based experimental music radio station Resonance FM. With performance by Art Terry, Atsuko Kamura, Digital Roses and Eugene Coyne.

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The Annual Club Integral Resonance FM Benefit

Eugene Coyne

Exploding Cinema is an underground film collective putting on shows across London and beyond for more than 3 decades. Expect: weirdness and wonder, with short film in its hybrid forms, visual mayhem in venue decor, live music, meeting the filmmakers and so much more. It’s Cinema but Exploded.

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Exploding Cinema

Join us for an evening of experimental composition and kaleidoscopic language. With visions of varied landscapes encircling sound and speech, this launch party combines diverse perspectives to create one momentary lapse, one trespass into that imagined land.

To celebrate the release of BAG X Collapsing Drums’ album ‘Momentary Lapses’, they will be joined by very special guests Tears|OV (live), something’s happening, Sensory Leakage (DJ set), Sam Terentjev-Watts (DJ set) and an additional unannounced guest. This event will coincide with the UK cassette release and run until 1am.

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BAG X Collapsing Drums + Tears|OV + [something’s happening] + more

[something's happening]

‘Social virtuosity’, a term coined by legendary vocalist and founder of FIG (Feminist Improvising Group) Maggie Nicols to denote the capacity for effective interpersonal interaction through music making, is what we are focusing on for the three concerts of this 5th here.here season at IKLECTIK.

Our guest for this first concert is composer, pianist and organist Eva-Maria Houben (DE) the author of Musical Practice as a Form of Life: How Making Music Can be Meaningful and Real (Music and Sound Culture, 2019) in which she dwells on a practice of music which is relational and social. We have chosen three new works of hers that have all been written for and addressed to two of her UK based friends – Artur Vidal and Dominic Lash – and their friends. Three works that leave ample scope for personal interpretation and mutual agency between players, listeners, and the work.

With Lara Agar (violin), Angharad Davies (violin), Isidora Edwards (cello), Finn Froome-Lewis (cello), Eva Maria Houben (piano), Dominic Lash (double bass), Hannah Marshall (cello), Artur Vidal (saxophone)

here.here concert series

A collaboration between bookRoom and the Audio Research Cluster at UCA Farnham, curated by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé and Harry Whalley, around their common research in extended, textual, visual, gestural and object scores and ways to experience technology in text / music / film / performances. The project is supported by UCA research fund.

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here.here | Social Virtuosity with Eva-Maria Houben

Angharad Davies

Artur M Vidal

Dominic Lash

Eva-Maria Houben

I K L E C T I K + Liz Helman present IMAGINARY PLACES; an evening of ambient sound, \[DJ set\], field recordings + electronics bringing together 4 unique artists, Kate Carr, Liz Helman, Lucie Stepankova + David Toop. The event will explore the intersections of place, imaginary + real. What might an imaginary place be like; what would it sound like? The night loosely takes as its inspiration, the book, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, its title as intriguing as it is evocative.

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IMAGINARY PLACES

nothing is immobile

David Toop

Kate Carr

Liz Helman

A night of experiments with a group of artists working across sound, improvisation and performance. Join for a session of diverse audio-visual performances from London – based and international artists looking at live code, improvised instruments, the voice and silence.

This event is kindly supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation / UniArts Helsinki

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SPACE | Art + Sound Night 

Andrew Brown

Craig Scott

Album launch and a debut show by Naix, a brand new project from Galaxian. Support by Nanzhen Yang (DJ) and Anil (DJ).

**Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.**

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Naix (Galaxian) album launch FE

Anil

An evening of haunting experimental ambient, looped vocals and synth drones.

**Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.**

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Penelope Trappes & Agnes Haus (AV) + CHAINES

Afraid

Penelope Trappes - Carry Me

CHAINES

Penelope Trappes

“…the trouble requires learning to be present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic past and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but … entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters and meanings…” Donna Haraway

Set amongst the madness of emergent AI and countering the despotic/heroic/dystopic narratives espoused by “Big Tech”, ‘None of the Above: Troubling the Story’ manifests the research of the Artificial and Distributed Intelligence and AI Real-World Narratives research groups through an evening of immersive sound performance, poetics and other artworks.

AI claims the position of the rational Oracle. It tells stories, stories with the power to manifest the future. But an AI future is a synthetic generation of the past. It locks in the logic of social hierarchies, division, and exclusion. We say None of the Above and call for a joyous reclamation of the future through the creation of a multiplicity of alternative imaginaries {AI}

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None of the Above: Troubling the Story

Jeremy Keenan

Matt Lewis

Tom Simmons

Anthony Moore (Slapp Happy & Henry Cow) with Richard Moore (no relation) – Violin – and multi-instrumentalists Keith Rodway and Amanda Thompson, play an evening of electroacoustic improvisation and spoken words over 90 minutes of atmospheric drift – a dark cinema for the ears, structured as a whole in two 45 minute parts.

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CLUB INTEGRAL

Amanda Thompson

Anthony Moore

Keith Rodway

Richard Moore

Eamon Ivri (Lighght) & JQ’s joint tour heads to London.

Eamon Ivri travels over from Ireland to present a live show focusing on his latest Mineral Stunting album and as yet unreleased material.

JQ will perform a mixture of new experimental songs and ambient classics.

Cloak of Kings will play a selection from her Flora Quest album.

Slowfoam will perform an immersive ambient DJ set.

**Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.**

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Eamon Ivri, Cloak Of Kings, JQ & Slowfoam (DJ)

slowfoam

Glasgow label Somewhere Between Tapes present three live performances to coincide with the release of Chantal Michelle's forthcoming album 'Broken to Echoes'. The artists are connected through their unique and experimental takes on ambient, utilising acoustic instrumentation and textural layers to build encompassing atmospheres. Their interdisciplinary approaches to sound create rich and immersive narratives, apparent in their fervent live acts.

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Chantal Michelle w/ Grace Villamil + Nyksan + Alliyah Enyo

Chantal Michelle - Rupture

Alliyah Enyo

Chantal Michelle

Same Sky (electronics and ambisonic mix), Bostjan Gombac (neanderthal flute and various wind and percussion instruments) and Amousement (visuals) will combine the oldest instrument in the world (Neanderthal Flute, 50.000 BC) with newest electronic instruments and AI generated visuals in improvised sonic exploration entitled “Cracks of Time”

Amousement will open the concert with performance that uses Ai to produce both sounds and visual content for his new performances.

For this show he is preparing a 100% live glitch ambient AV set. Fast and flashy will be indeed.

**Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.**

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‘Cracks of Time’ – SameSky w. Bostjan Gombač + Amousement

UK label Phantom Limb celebrate their fifth anniversary with performances from acclaimed Brazilian drummer and producer Iggor Cavalera, Taiwan’s sonic experimentalist Sabiwa, and emerging solo MIDI percussionist Cameron Graham.

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Phantom Limb 5th anniversary: Iggor Cavalera, Sabiwa, Cameron Graham

Cameron Graham

Sabiwa

An evening of sound art fuelled experimental electronics.

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Katatonic Silentio + Miedo Total

Katatonic Silentio

Miedo Total

An evening of glitchy generative sonic experiments, analog circuitry and interactive multi-media madness.

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MSHR + WEȽ∝KER

MSHR

Quantum computers are a nascent technology that is advancing rapidly. As these novel machines loom on the horizon, musicians are beginning to experiment with them in creative ways. For Many Musics, Quantum Worlds, IKLECTIK teamed with the University of Plymouth and Moth, a quantum arts technology company, to stage pioneering works exploring quantum computers in music composition and performance, by Eduardo Reck Miranda, Paulo Itaborai, Cephas Teom and ecolagbohrsac2021. **Warning: Some performances might use strobes and/or flashing lights.**

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Many Musics, Quantum Worlds

Eduardo Reck Miranda

ecolagbohrsac2021

UK premiere of a new collaborative project from the sonic workshops of Tot Onyx and Hiro Kone.

Enxin/Onyx (Hiro Kone & Tot Onyx)

Teetering precariously between discord and harmony, the prismatic distortion of Tommi Tokyo (group A, Tot Onyx) and Nicky Mao’s (Hiro Kone) new project Enxin/Onyx abandons all former distinctions for something mutable and unsettling. Haunted voices bubbling up amongst shifting electronics, mercurial at times, confrontational at others. This constant interplay between elements of their individual practices give way to sonic experience that knows no bounds. Not surprising for both artists whose work spans across numerous collaborations, including film and dance.

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Enxin/Onyx (Hiro Kone + Tot Onyx)

Hiro Kone - Rukhsana

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents:

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan + Sulk Rooms (Matinee Show)

£14 - IKLECTIK - May 13th 2023

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Baba Yaga's Hut

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan (4pm)

Sulk Rooms

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Baba Yaga's Hut Presents:

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan + Sulk Rooms

£14 - IKLECTIK - May 13th 2023

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan (8PM)

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