Eroteme opens its autumn season with performances by Paris-based Arnaud Rivière and London/Taiwanese artist Lucia H Chung (en creux).
Both artists use noise as a material in its own right: Rivière presents 4x4, a spatial work first shown at GRM’s Présences Électroniques festival and re-adapted here for the acoustics of PINK. The piece reimagines monophonic reverberation as a polymorphic form, treating noise as gesture and movement through hacked electronics and feedback. Chung works with no-input mixing and the uncovering of hidden signal paths, using feedback and glitch as a live improvisational strategy.
Their approaches share a sense of risk and immediacy, presented at the artist-led PINK, a DIY space in Stockport.
🍲 Food is included in the ticket price — arrive early to avoid disappointment!
Two-day pass: £20 (covers entry to this event and the following night’s Eroteme concert on Sat 27 September).
Arnaud’s performance is far from subtle. He will attack you with raw sounds of objects rotating on the turntable and dangerous wires stuck directly into his mixer. His sonic intervention is ecstatic but he is also detached enough to hint at sarcasm moments before he moves on to destroy another objects for auditory pleasure. For me, Arnaud is an important turntablist that extends the practices of Yoshihide Otomo and Martin Tetreault, where the raw sound of the material overwhelms any sort of reference or functionality that the medium was originally intended to have.
He is an unabashed feedbackophile who creates monstrous gusts of noise with simple tools used incorrectly. Jamming foreign objects and wires into his mixing board, using his turntable to spin metal disks or worse, twisting his distortion pedal to 11, the harsh beauty of Riviere’s music does not come from conventional concepts like melody and harmony, but from deftly controlled bursts of energy, powerful gestures of thunderous layers of noise upon noise, and a wonderful sense of structure.
Lucia H Chung is a Taiwanese experimental noise artist based in London, United Kingdom. She performs and releases music under the alias ‘en creux’ where sound creation springs from her interests and fascinations in the inherent noise floor within audio equipment. She uncovers and reveals such hidden noise via her manipulations with no-input feedback mixing. The volatile nature of feedback and the unpredictable glitch from the excessive energy generated within the equipment becomes her improvisational and compositional strategy. As the word ‘en creux’ suggests, she summons a hollowed out, reversed form of sound from the mixing console.
Lucia’s passion lies in live performance and has regularly performed solo and with collaborators in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, including Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival (CH), Krama Festival (GR), Lisboa Soa Festival (PT), Sanatorium of Sound Festival (PL), Festival Electropixel (FR), Sonorities Festival (NI), Through the Floor Festival (UK) and Supernormal (UK).
She also works as a broadcaster and an independent curator at Happened. She has curated and organised residency programmes and music events around the UK and Europe, including 3-month Taiwanese Experimental Music residency for Music Hackspace at Somerset House Studios, Inland virtual residency between Lacking Sound Fest. (Taiwan) and IKLECTIK (UK), and a panel discussion Going Platinum! on video game music as part of Grounding Practice at Somerset House Studios.