Asterisms #2 · 5. Oct., 2024 · Soft Canyon
Soft Noise presents: Asterisms #2
With: Ross Parfitt /// Nick Dunston /// Switt.
Sa. 5. Oct., 2024, 19:30
Eintritt: Spende
At Soft Canyon, Friedrichshain — message @repatterning on Telegram for exact location.
Doors open 19:30 to 20:30 or so, outside this time send a message.
Asterisms is a small new series for slow sounds, non-linear noises, ecstatic encounters, and silver symmetries. Occurring intermittently at Soft Canyon in Friedrichshain, the second iteration of these events presents Ross Parfitt, Nick Dunston, and Switt.
Ross Parfitt
Coming from post-Cageian experimentalism, Ross Parfitt’s musical excursions seek material sensuality and a kind of ecstasy. Quiet ideas of space and tone carried out in large life with cymbals, electronics and centimetres.
Links: Ross Parfitt’s website · Ross Parfitt on SoundCloud
Nick Dunston
Nick Dunston is an acoustic and electroacoustic composer, improviser, and sound artist. His work explores notions of ancestral memory, materiality, embodiment, decolonization, and Afro-surrealism. He has released seven albums, and has been hailed as an “indispensable player on the New York avant-garde” by the New York Times. As a collaborator he has worked with artists such as Marc Ribot, Ches Smith, Vijay Iyer, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey, Moor Mother, JACK Quartet, Son Lux, Ingrid Laubrock, Wet Ink Ensemble, Craig Taborn, Dave Douglas, Allison Miller, Wendy Eisenberg, Lotte Anker, Darius Jones, Mette Rasmussen, Elliott Sharp, Sofia Jernberg, Jim Black, Achim Kaufmann, Lucrecia Dalt, Joy Guidry, Imani Uzuri, Anna Webber, and Amirtha Kidambi.
Links: Nick Dunston’s website · Nick Dunston on Bandcamp
Switt
Switt is an emerging solo project by Tristen Bakker (Vrouw!, Otolitos, Paro), built around the live performance potential of an extensive array of obsolete iPhones — remnant electronics harvested from the hectic world. Using each device as a custom input or sample source, Switt crafts speculative soundworlds from the forgotten utensils of the everyday tap-and-scroll. These inputs are subject to judicious processing and accompanied by live vocals and layered effects, and construct captivating compositional vignettes from the ghosts of our ubiquitous machines.
