Ealing Extranormal Volume 27, 18th May 2024

A monthly showcase for sonically adventurous experimental music in West London in association with OPEN Ealing.

Advance tickets £12*. Tickets are non-refundable.

£15 on the door.

*We have a number of free guest passes for those unable to pay the price of admission (no questions asked). Please contact the organisers directly through this page, one per applicant.

There is no bar, so please bring your own refreshments.

This edition features sets from:

Julia Set

Julia Set is an audiovisual project cocurated by Lewis Wolstanholme and Francis Devine. As a duo, their works specialise in crossmodal, immersive and improvisatory performance practices, with which they seek to challenge a spectator’s perceptive interpretation of their audible and visual worlds.

For this performance, we intend to present two semi-improvised audiovisual works - a reworking of our piece centerbeam, which was originally written for a performance involving audio reactive lights, and a new work that explores both digital percussion and other pre-recorded materials.

https://linktr.ee/julia___set

Strange Devicers

We are known as Strange Devicers and we create immersive soundscapes using various types of tape recorders playing found recordings and tape loops. Some effects and looping pedals are also used.

Members:

Matt Atkins is a London based sound and visual artist whose principle interests are reductionism, chance, repetition and texture. He uses objects, percussion instruments, occasionally a laptop and cassette recorders to create sound collages.

Andy Rowe is a sound artist, producer and musician who lives and works in London. He has worked with sound in a professional and creative context since 1996 and gained a degree in Sonic Art from Middlesex University in 2009.

https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com/album/orchid-terrace-preface

Minimum Sentence

Russia-born, UK-based experimental noise / minimal electronics musician, doing his debut live performance. He has recently released his debut EP called Brighton, available online on Bandcamp, Youtube, Soundcloud and usual platforms. While his sonic journey ranges widely and occasionally goes to the extremes of industrial noise, at Ealing Extranormal he will show his mellow side, focusing on experimental drone, minimal electronics and dark ambient compartments of his repertoire.

https://minimumsentence.bandcamp.com/

Expedient Self

Expedient Self is a Brighton-based solo guitar act who plays a loop-based mix of post-rock, no wave and drone. Active since 2019, he has released two EPs and a single to date, with the most recent EP – Chairs – receiving a positive review in the April 2023 issue of the Wire, which said that his music shows "a great sense of how to assemble discordant elements into a weirdly coherent whole."

https://expedientself.bandcamp.com/

COVID SAFETY

Please be considerate of others who may be more concerned than you regarding social distancing etc. Some participants are at increased risk from Covid, so if you are unwell on the day, rather than struggling to attend please contact the organisers for a replacement ticket for a future date.

Curated by Martin Lau www.martinlau.net

Presented by OPEN Ealing www.openealing.com

Map of Dickens Yard showing location of OPEN Ealing