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XOLO returns once more in conjunction with the AMOENUS surround sound system at The Bath House in Hackney Wick on Saturday 11th May.For this event we are starting to explore beyond hearing by inviting the musicians to share a flavour or scent as a pairing to their sets to expand to reaching the other senses. This also explains the image chosen for this event, a scan rather than a photo and therefore a collated set of images featuring a cake and cutlery on a sideboard, a more febrile exploration.
The artists themselves utilise a range of approaches to their works from sampling and dissection of found sound to live instrumentation and generation. The Bath House itself also offers saunas and plunge tanks, an impressive selection of lovingly prepared food and drinks and a warm and welcoming atmosphere as a community led space, so alongside joining us for the event you can satisfy your whole being in the spaces on offer. We look forward to sharing yet another voyage with you all X
About the artists
Yewen Jin
Navigating an intricate balance between hauntological reflection and modern day introspection, Yewen Jin employs soundscapes reminiscent of both to create a delicate journey which invigorates senses of longing and contemplation.
Her music draws from diverse musical, cultural and personal experiences.Yewen has released tracks on compilations with experimental labels such as Chinabot and LIMBS Project, and currently working on her debut album.
https://limbsprojects.bandcamp.com/track/underpass
John Biddulph
Derbyshire born electro-acoustic multi-instrumentalist John Biddulph makes soundscapes inspired by the natural and industrial features and heritage sites in the UK and beyond as well as calling on his jazz influenced past alongside Steve Berry and Django Bates and The Grand Union Orchestra and experience of world music with Salamat and Nazakat Ali Khan.
John has performed in major venues throughout the UK and beyond including Athens, Berlin, and in Iceland (exploring the Icelandic Sagas in sound). Hear sounds inspired by witch marks in caves, stone circles, industrial sites and underground labyrinths.
John’s music uses electronic sounds mixed with saxes, bass clarinet, waterphone, Luminist Garden, and field recordings has resulted in invitations to play festivals and major venues in the UK and mainland Europe.
John will peform his composition Magnetic Mountain. Magnetic Mountain is a track that uses magnetic fields to control and modify sounds. It was inspired or perhaps ‘disturbed’ by the steel-making industrial landscapes of the mid 20th century. John uses magnetic patterns to mix the sounds, strips of magnetic tape as sound samples and modular synthesis to process both electronic and acoustic sounds. Magnetic Mountain was a place where, due to the levels of magnetism, scientific instruments would not work, birds would not fly and people were affected by a wide range of health issues. An otherworldly place with a real-worldly impact. A dystopia.
Marçal Xirau
Marçal Xirau is a Catalan experimental electronic musician based in London. He has released four EP’s and one LP since 2017. The producer has presented his work in several European festivals, such as Sónar. Having an electric guitar background, the musician seeks for expression and depth through his unique use of digital production tools. The musician creates immersive sets of original music, bending the barrier between ambient music, pop, experimental electronica and abstract high pitch melodic synth music.
“Acoustic-electronic experimentalist Marçal Xirau coaxes an involving sonic palette from processed guitar, voice and pedals, with additional electronic effects, recalling aspects of vaporwave, ambient and music concrete” - Sónar Festival
Monkey Rob
Monkey Rob is a member of the Infinite Monkeys collective. Architect, DJ, Field Recording Aficionado, Speeches Excerpts Devotee, and Sound Artist. His favourite bananas always from Canary islands. After a thorough grooming, the insulation value of his pelt increases by as much as 50 percent.
Monkey Rob will be available for adoption, please consider adopting Monkey Rob, and bring him to your home after the show. Feel free to feed Monkey Rob during the show, he will be very grateful to receive a beer, or even a gin and tonic.
soundcloud.com/thereisneverenoughmonkeys
Sungmin Lee
Born in 1998, Sungmin is a South Korean-born and Leicester-raised guitarist and producer based in South East London.His musical journey started at the school Jazz ensemble, but his guitar playing later evolved into a mixture of everything that can be played on the guitar.
Later on, he began to experiment with Electronic music, mainly Techno and Jungle, as he moved to London and was influenced by the local rave scene and his friends from the Creative and Music Computing courses at Goldsmiths, where he studied his undergraduate course and is currently studying an MA course at the ICCE.
Naturally, Sungmin began experimenting with mixing guitar and rave music, as well as producing pure guitar tracks and dance tracks.He also produces analogue digital art to accompany his music using modular video synthesisers, camcorders and CRT TVs, producing hypnotic visuals with video feedback.
Other than that, he is into martial arts, religion, philosophy and literature.
https://soundcloud.com/yi-seongmin
About XOLO
XOLO aims to foster opportunities for sonic and visual artists on the cutting edge of creative exploration.
About The Bath House
https://thebathhouse.co/
The Bath House is a not-for-profit community space with a cafe, bar multiple event spaces and studios. We host many permanent local businesses, as well as offering a wide range of workshops and events that change weekly.
About AMOENUS
https://amoenus.co.uk
This event is organised by AMOENUS, a cultural organisation that promotes the development of music as a multi-sensory, participatory experience. Amoenus ran several residencies, workshops and events since 2018 in collaboration with several art organisations, spatial audio technology companies, educational institutions and community venues including IKLECTIK, 4DSOUND, Sony, Stone Nest, Central St Martins, BOM Birmingham, Insitute of Contemporary Music Perfromance and Goldsmiths University, receiving support from Arts Council England in the process to build their very own 16.4 state of the arts spatial audio sound system, currently housed at The Bath House in Hackney Wick.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Bath House, 80 Eastway, London, E9 5, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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