Eroteme #07 : Thomas Ankersmit / Alex Mendizabal / WEȽ∝KER

Sat May 28 2022 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

International Anthony Burgess Foundation | Manchester

Sam Weaver
Publisher/HostSam Weaver
Eroteme #07 : Thomas Ankersmit \/ Alex Mendizabal \/ WE\u023d\u221dKER
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Eroteme teams up with the BBAALLOONN’s crew for a night of Psychoacoustics featuring : Serge Modular Synthesist Thomas Ankersmit & Basque Instrument-builder / sound artist Alex Mendizabal... Rounding things off is the warped algorithmic computer music of Manchester’s WEȽ∝KER!

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“Razor-sharp and incredibly detailed sounds appear in high-definition … Ankersmit constructs a seductive and highly unpredictable sound-poem in which space non-space or the illusion of one or the other play a key role. Uncompromising and revolutionary with the equipment on the torturing rack … Outright genius.”

→ Sven Schlijper KindaMuzik.


Thomas Ankersmit is a musician based in Berlin and Amsterdam. He plays the Serge Modular analogue synthesizer both live and in the studio and collaborates with artists like Phill Niblock and Valerio Tricoli.

His music is released on the Shelter Press PAN and Touch labels and combines intricate sonic detail and raw electric power with a very physical and spatial experience of sound. Acoustic phenomena such as infrasound and otoacoustic emissions (sounds emanating from inside the head generated by the ears themselves) play an important role in his work as does a deliberate creative misuse of the equipment.

For this concert he will perform new loosely structured solo material that’s perhaps more cinematic and musique concrète than his earlier work - a project commissioned by Cafe OTO.

A music of scenes spaces sonic perspectives - all of it performed on the Serge Modular analogue synthesizer: no samples no field recordings no digital effects. The music exists in the tension between abstraction and representation - with Ankersmit trying to 'breathe life' into the electricity as it were.

At the same time he’s approaching the synthesizer as an ensemble sometimes referencing traditional instruments as well (horns strings percussion).

https://thomasankersmit.net/

https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/perceptual-geography

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Alex Mendizabal (euskal herria)

The practice of Alex Mendizabal is characterized by the construction of instruments and sound spatialization. It often adopts unusual forms such as blind films concerts in movement or underwater music. He has spent thirty years researching different areas of music and sound. His proposals range from music for an orchestra to experiments with graphical notation scores of less than a second and concerts for geological movements. In 1996 he stopped composing in order to dedicate himself to making instruments and incorporating space and a reflection on listening as the basis of his proposals.


On this occasion Mendizabal will occupy the Burgess Center with balloons soap chickpeas and the sound intersection produced by their coming together.

In his closets and pockets one can find writings and poems. He has played in all kinds of venues as well as festivals museums and venues in various countries (Serralves Portugal; the Biennale of Music and 25FPS Croatia; Visitazioni M.A.C.RO. and Biennale Venezia Italy; Pépète Lumière Nantes Bayonne France; Anthology Film Archive San Francisco Cinemateque and Whitney Museum USA; La Casa Encendida Museo Reina Sofia and MACBA Spain; Ghent Belgium; Rotterdam Film Festival Netherlands; Ertz Tabakalera and Larraskito Basque Country Cafe Oto UK; among others).

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“a voyage into the warm heart of computer music.” – Conditional


WEȽ∝KER (pronounced “WET LOCKER”) is a collaborative project from Messrs Guillaume Dujat and Joe Beedles. Presenting gummied computer music through shimmering spongiform corridors jagged rips of discord and rib-shaking bass weight. Following their first release on Conditional records and recent support for Jessica Ekomane WEȽ∝KER drudge up new sonic morsels for Eroteme.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine HouseChorlton Mill3 Cambridge StreetM1 5BYUK, Manchester, United Kingdom

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