Two Trains of Thought

//ADAM ART GALLERY
SOUND CHECK
DEEP LISTENING PERFORMANCE SERIES 2009

Two Trains of Thought

Lyttelton-based sound artists Stanier Black-Five and Mela

Adam Art Gallery
Thursday 28 May 2009
8pm

The audio work of Stanier Black-Five regularly fuses live electronics with environmental recordings and found sounds; from mesmerising aircraft drones to the pounding rhythms of trains. As well as having played throughout New Zealand, Stanier Black-Five has taken her visceral performances to the UK and Europe performing at events such as the London Musicians Collective’s annual festival of experimental music. For the Adam Art Gallery, Stanier Black-Five will develop a dynamic work based on manipulations of port recordings made across the country, incorporating the sounds of Wellington’s docks into the mix.

Mela is an experimental audio/visual project which revels in the medium-specific properties of a variety of obsolete media. Mela’s performances combine an almost obsessive degree of preparation with random interjections from misbehaving equipment. She sonically and visually investigates the aesthetics of constrained gesture and broken things by layering repeating melodies, gradually effecting drones and suitably unrecognisable beats to create an imperfect but mellifluous musical microclimate.

Mela and Stanier Black-Five are both active members of the Borderline Ballroom, a collective providing a relaxed space for challenging listening and live sonic experimentation in the city of Christchurch.

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