Event overview
Join us at Goldsmiths' SIML space for the highly anticipated launch of ScanDisk, the debut audio-visual release from Partial Defrag.
Join us at Goldsmiths' SIML space for the highly anticipated launch of ScanDisk, the debut audio-visual release from Partial Defrag.
This free event features live performances by Isidora Edwards, Michael-Jon Mizra, and Partial Defrag, each contributing their own unique sounds to this evocative evening.
Free Event - Registration required https://link.dice.fm/yfc30a39708a
Physical copies of the release will be available at the event for a reduced price of £6.
“A hard drive storing the after-dark, compressed and space-optimised.”
ScanDisk is Partial Defrag debut audio-visual release (STRATA, 29/11/24). Whispered voices, car engines, and ethereal club hooks are cut up, compressed, and congealed into a fluid, late-night motif for a spectral, industrial London. Partial Defrag’s free-form compositions are the leftovers of a hard drive compression: space-optimised memories tainted with artefacts.
Partial Defrag will present a fully-automated rendition of ScanDisk, utilising a custom-built light system and the full projection rig of the SIML space.
Micheal-Jon Mizra will be showing an audio visual performance researched and developed for Abandon Normal Devices' performance / lecture series Critical Acts. Weaving the words of two writers, Nick Land and Timothy Morton, into segments of algorithmically generated audio and visual content.
STRATA
Launched in 2024 at London’s Spanners, STRATA is a label dedicated to free-form audiovisual works that explore the uncanny, dirty and obscure. ScanDisk is STRATA’s first catalogue release.
Isidora Edwards is a London-based cellist and improviser from Chile.
Transiting between thresholds that include the acoustic, amplified and processed cello and electronics, her work has been shaping a language that questions epistemologies of time, listening, freedom and pleasure. Her solo and collaborative performances with fellow improvisers have been presented in a vast number of festivals and venues around Europe and the US. She was trained as a classical musician, holds an Ms in Creative Practice and is a Phd candidate at Goldsmiths.
Michael-Jon Mizra is a computer musician and visual artist with an interest in the application of generative algorithms. His work's focus on the emergent qualities of these algorithms and how they can disrupt our notion of intention and our relationship to time-based media.
Picture Credits: Dawid Laskowski
Event supported by CSTC Goldsmiths and IKLECTIK.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Dec 2024 | 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
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