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We Are Not Content & Live Cinema Foundation presents:AUDIOVISUAL ASSEMBLY
A night of audio-visual performances featuring:
The Light Surgeons : “The Consensual Hallucination”
DJ Food (Ninja Tune) : “O Is For Orange”
Bitvert + Pat Grimm + Taeko Aubern : “Homophily”
Support from Insight Lighting & David Leister’s Kino Club
Friday 21st November
7pm - Midnight
The Baths Hackney Wick
80 Eastway, London E9 5JH
Tickets £13 / £15 - Resident Advisor
Early Bird tickets on sale Mon 13th Oct
https://ra.co/events/2276158
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AUDIOVISUAL ASSEMBLY is a night of live audio-visual performance curated by We Are Not Content and Live Cinema Foundation. Bringing together experimental musicians, visual artists, and live cinema practitioners, each edition explores the intersection of sound and image through analog techniques, generative systems, and immersive projection.
The debut event features The Light Surgeons performing their psychedelic live cinema piece "The Consensual Hallucination," DJ Food's "O Is For Orange" AV set, and the collaborative analog synthesis of Bitvert + Pat Grimm's "Homophily" liquid light projections.
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About event co-producers:
We Are Not Content
We are not content is a collective of artists, musicians, DJs, VJs and filmmakers that curates experiences that unify sound and vision with audiences. They have curated and produced visual displays at a range of small and large scale events. They champion artists that experiment with immersive experiences in galleries, music venues, festivals, and virtual spaces.
https://www.wearenotcontent.org/
Live Cinema Foundation
LiveCinemaFoundation is a London-based not-for-profit organisation that supports the presentation, development, and publication of new forms of digital culture that exist at the intersection between moving image, music, and the performing arts.
http://www.livecinemafoundation.org
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About performances:
The Light Surgeons : “The Consensual Hallucination”
A kaleidoscopic analog film loop and analog cassette tape loop experiment, an audio-visual assemblage of sound and light crafted in real-time through the manipulation of tactile, hands-on physical media. An unforgettable odyssey into wonky sounds, beatnik poetry, and a cut-up collage of fragments of cult cinema that celebrates this pioneering collective's 30 years in media arts.
DJ Food (Ninja Tune) : “O Is For Orange”
Strictly Kev performs his recent Boards of Canada-inspired audio-visual Bleep mix live, a psychedelic trip through the duo’s music, samples, remixes and more. This will be a not-to-be-missed sonic/visual experience.
“The idea was to thread Boards of Canada’s music with original sample sources, tracks they’d remixed, fan remixes or songs that fitted their sonic blueprint. I recently resurrected and refined the mix for a gig booking, updating it into a new version. This happened to be a week before I was due to deliver my guest mix to Bleep, and it seemed to be too good an opportunity to pass up. I abandoned the mix I was going to deliver and put down the first hour of the ‘Orange’ set, including a video mix to go with it. I used stem splitting apps to deconstruct some of the tracks into unique versions before video mixing it all on turntables using Serato then editing the footage in Premiere." - DJ Food
Bitvert + Pat Grimm + Taeko Aubern : “Homophily”
Homophily - is a new immersive audio-visual performance with esoteric electronica, psychedelic liquid light visuals and improvised dance shadows. It is an exciting experimental collaboration of Electronica produced by Bitvert, improvised psychedelic oil visuals by Pat Grimm and sculptural shadow dancing by Taeko Aubern.
Homophily is an immersive audio-visual journey into the spaces where sound, light, and movement converge. The collaboration brings together Bitvert's esoteric electronica—pulsing, layered, hypnotic—with Pat Grimm's live liquid light projections, where oils, dyes, and chemical reactions bloom and dissolve in psychedelic patterns. Moving through this analog dreamscape, Taeko Aubern's sculptural shadow dance adds a human dimension, her silhouette fragmenting and reforming against cascading color and shifting frequencies. The result is a spontaneous, sensory experience where each element responds to and amplifies the others—analchemy of chance and intention, rhythm and refraction.
Artist Biogs:
DJ Food
DJ Food is a producer, club & radio DJ, graphic designer and writer. Also known as Strictly Kev, he has been involved in the DJ Food project for three decades (once a multi-producer outfit alongside Coldcut and PC) and sole keeper of the flame for over 20 years. As part of Coldcut’s Solid Steel radio show for 25 years, he mixed hundreds of hours of audio for radio and compilations using his decades of experience and vast record collection.
His DJ career has taken him all over the world, adding visuals to his sets, projecting in planetariums and constructing analogue audio-visual events under the name, Further. The recent compilation, Telepathic Fish: Trawling the early 90s Ambient Underground, showcased his pre-Ninja Tune activities creating chill out parties in the London club and squat scene.
His ‘O Is For Orange’ set has evolved through several iterations since 2013, built around the group Boards of Canada’s music and visual language. Highlighting selections of their songs, original samples used in their work, remixes and likeminded music, it explores themes of love, colour and psychedelia.
https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-308-dj-food
https://www.djfood.org/
Instagram: @strictlykev
The Light Surgeons
The Light Surgeons is a media arts studio that creates moving image work, live performances, installations, and experiences that sit at the intersection of music, film, and creative technology. The studio was established in London in 1995 and is led by media artist, filmmaker and creative producer Christopher Thomas Allen. The studio produces a diverse range of creative projects that blur the boundaries between art and design, they are renowned for the development of live cinema performance and installation projects that combine in-depth research into human stories, subject matters, and themes that enlighten and move their audiences. They combine a passion for documentary filmmaking with the creation of original music and an eye for design that gives their work a unique style and feel.
This show is performed by founding members of the studio, Christopher Thomas Allen and Andy Flywheel on 16mm’s, and composer and audio-visual artist Tim Cowie on cassette tape loops.
Tim Cowie is a composer, sound designer and audiovisual artist whose work combines electronic music production with classical composition and minimalism. He blends synthesised sound with acoustic instruments, found sounds, tape loops and field recordings to create sonic textures and musical structures that transcend genre boundaries With a particular focus on spatial audio, he expands his practice beyond traditional stereo formats, exploring immersive sound environments. His compositions are rooted in conceptual ideas and critical thinking, incorporating narrative and thematic layers that harness the emotional power of sound.
Andy Flywheel, now creatively working in mental health therapies, has gladly returned to work on this analogue project. 16mm loops were created for various briefs throughout the 90’s. The unique process of printing video back to film was devised by Flywheel to produce moving imagery in conjunction with sound. It was a cost effective way of projecting images into spaces as video projection was extremely expensive. This process was the catalyst for the Light Surgeons to develop alternative techniques in reanimation that included a spectrum of design media.
https://lightsurgeons.com/
https://timcowie.com/
Instagram: @thelightsurgeons | @chrislightsurgeon | @timcowie | @andyflywheel
Bitvert
Bitvert has a widescreen approach to art that covers projection, audio, moving image and 2D media. Projects include music production and large-scale image projection. Bitvert also curated and performed on the Gas Tower Stage at the pioneering VR ‘Lost Horizon’ festival. Bitvert has performed at Shangri-la-Glastonbury Festival/Lost Horizon Festival/Hackney Wicked and Splice Festival. He has released an EP and two albums.
He set up, curates and works with established and new artists under the 'We Are Not Content' umbrella. This collective approach to events and happenings brings live performers, film, visualists, musicians and visuals together.
His work with projection evolved from a stint of guerrilla projections onto London architecture. This was followed by a commission for the Turin Biennale to project his medical art images onto landmark buildings in the city. Previously, he has been working with The Light Surgeons, the established multimedia collective. Projects have included audio production for 'LDN24' at The Museum of London and music production and performance for 'True Fictions', a live cinema performance.(New York/London IMAX/Hong Kong/Belfast/Madrid/Brighton/Milan/Big Chill Festival) He has also recently exhibited 'Transmission' a solo show of paintings and prints at the Lebenson Gallery in Paris.
https://bitvert.org/
https://bitvert.bandcamp.com/music
Instagram: @bitvert
Pat Grimm
Pat Grimm is a visual artist specialising in liquid light projection. Working with overhead projectors and analogue materials, she creates live visual performances that respond to sound — collaborating with musicians across psychedelic rock, electronic, and ambient genres. Her under-camera manipulations transform simple materials into hypnotic microworlds: bubbling textures, melting colors, pulsating plasmas, and reactive chemical compositions that ebb and flow with the music. Embracing DIY and analog aesthetics, Grimm's work celebrates the raw, unpolished spontaneity of live performance. Her work has illuminated stages of festivals from Shangri-La, Glastonbury to intimate London venues like New River Studios, Iklectik.
Instagram: @patgrimm
Taeko Auburn
Taeko uses dance to translate both hard anger and fluffy joy into embodied expression. For them, dance, amongst other art forms, has become a vital tool in reclaiming their selfhood and their body — a practice that has taught them how to express sensuality and process grief. Their journey was planted in rave, then blossomed with pole dancing. To them, pole dancing is protection, pure joy, and freedom — the closest feeling to flying. It represents a reclamation, a taking back of all that has been taken from queer bodies. Their floor-work dancing has been a recent exploration, rooted in the intention of grounding. Through the interplay of strength and sensuality, they explore and celebrate the beauty of androgyny.
Rooted in the legacy of underground rave, spirituality and sensuality, dance feels like home.
Instagram: @taeko.aubern
Support from:
David Leister | Kino Club
David Leister is a filmmaker and performance artist who has lived and worked in London UK since 1979. Taking references from a photographic background, his films explore the diversity of the 16mm medium with the use of hand processing, photograms, archive and performance. His recent body of works reflects on his photographic heritage, and pays close attention to a more personal space and history. He has been an active member of the film community in London since 1983 and regularly assists other artists with the presentation of their film work with his celebrated 16mm looping system. He has over a dozen films in distribution with LUX that are regularly included in experimental film programmes and festivals both in the UK and in Europe. He has an extensive 16mm archive of discarded educational and information films from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, which formed the basis for The Kino Club, his platform for combining improvised film and music in an informal cabaret-club setting, with David Leister as host and projectionist.
Screenings and performances include BFI London Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Osnabruck EMAF, Media City, Flatpack Festival, Hamburg Short Film , London Docs Festival at the ICA in London, Contact Film Festival, Cambridge Art Works ‘In Correspondence’ Exhibition, Hastings ‘Our Machines’, Closeup Cinema –‘In Reality’ and Braziers International Film Festival, and Surfeit at Café OTO. In addition he has collaborated on artist run projects such as Bea Haut’s Analogue Recurring and Jim Hobb’s One Hundred Foot events.
https://www.davidleister.co.uk/
https://www.kinoclub.co.uk/
Instagram: @kinoclub16
Insight Lighting
Insight Lighting are creative partners and long-standing champions of London's audio-visual arts scene. Born from art school culture and the early rave scene, they've spent years supporting experimental artists, underground festivals, and community projects—bringing the same care and expertise to internationally renowned fine artists as they do to grassroots creative endeavors. Their collaborative approach combines deep technical knowledge across analog and digital technologies with genuine artistic engagement. Working with a trusted network of lighting designers, projection artists, and engineers, Insight help realize ambitious visual experiences that push boundaries while honoring each project's unique vision. For AUDIOVISUAL ASSEMBLY, they're providing essential technical support and creative input, ensuring the immersive environments our artists need to thrive.
https://insightlighting.co.uk/
Instagram: @insightlighting
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