In Situ - Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance

Day 1: Crowne Plaza (Ballroom)

Puce Mary
Lucy Railton
Union for Open Vocalism

80 DKK (Presale) / 100 DKK (Door)

Simian presents In Situ – Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance. The event series takes place over three evenings at selected locations in and around Simian in the district of Ørestad, Copenhagen. In Situ focuses on diverse experimental electronic and electro-acoustic music and performance, interacting and resonating with the physical space they inhabit.
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Puce Mary the solo moniker of Danish-born experimental, electronic musician Frederikke Hoffmeier – once produced a track titled "Slow Agony of a Dying Orgasm": The title is emblematic of an artist whose unforgivingly abrasive soundscapes always seem to be quaking with desire and ecstasy while simultaneously exploring brutal unsparing agony. Puce Mary is known for her intense live performances that span from renditions of restrained, even beautiful compositions to the full-on fury of off-the-cuff harsh noise. Oft-identified with the now-generation of industrial noise, the project’s recent endeavors explore the field of sound more broadly than before, unfurling a complex sonic and literary narrative of tension and release, amidst disquieting dynamics and surreal cinematics.

Lucy Railton is a cellist and electronic musician based in Berlin, who works with both composition and improvisation. Ranging from minimalist, yet deeply emotional, modern chamber music to brutally antagonistic noise and vividly pictorial musique concrete, her music often deals with processes of reassembling and transforming archival sounds as a way of locating memory and language. Reflecting on her relationship to her instrument, her embodiment of learned techniques as well as the psychoacoustic character of her practice is another important aspect of her work.
Railton seems particularly indebted to the Deep Listening practice of American composer Pauline Oliveros – a practice which involves a sort of double listening: An attentiveness not only to the sounds that are being produced, but also to the way the surrounding environment responds. In this sense, there is a meditative and even soothing quality to Railtons work; even at its most unsettling, this is music that invites you in.

Union for Open Vocalism is at once a performance ensemble and a platform for the study of the possibilities and limits of vocalism. For the members of Union for Open Vocalism, vocalism refers not only to the literal use of the voice, but also to the social, ethical, and political implications of vocalizing – and thus communicating – one's emotions and concerns. Through a wide array of different performances and happenings – and fueled by a firm belief in vocalisms ability to cultivate common understanding – the Union strives to create a pluralistic, polyphonic community in defiance of a world that is rapidly moving towards sameness and "one-voicedness".

More info at https://www.ssiimmiiaann.org/