Taz Modi + AGENESIS (Robert Curgenven & Kathleen McDowall)

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm UTC+01:00

Church St, CO1 1NF Colchester, United Kingdom | Colchester

Colchester Arts Centre
Publisher/HostColchester Arts Centre
Taz Modi + AGENESIS (Robert Curgenven & Kathleen McDowall)
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Tickets £8 / £7 concessions.
Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm.
This gig is for a seated audience.

TAZ MODI
Born in London to Indian and Czech parents, Taz Modi is a composer and musician best known for being part of the bands Submotion Orchestra and Portico Quartet. His composing work includes scoring Netflix’s Mark Cavendish: Never Enough, BBC’s award-winning Your Home Made Perfect and Your Garden Made Perfect, and commissions from The Barbican, Leeds Film Festival and Kinoteka Film Festival. As a musician, he is a founder member of electronic band Submotion Orchestra, and plays keyboards and hang drum with Mercury-nominated instrumental act Portico Quartet. His solo album Reclaimed Goods was featured as one of Guardian writer John Lewis’ top ten albums of 2019, and has seen him tour the UK and Europe with his string trio.
For tonight's performance Taz is accompanied by the Prism String Ensemble and will be playing Involuntary Memories Pts 1 & 2.
Involuntary Memories Part 1 & 2
www.tazmodi.com
www.instagram.com/taz.modi/
www.submotion.co.uk
'Shimmering, alluring...reminiscent of Sakamoto, Frahm and Hauschka...an even more effective exploration of solo piano' - The Guardian
'Understated genius...listen to it; it'll lift you high above our care-worn world to a place of safety and grace' - Music Week
'Stirring contemporary piano-led compositions...a rich, emotive listen' - Bleep
AGENESIS (ROBERT CURGENVEN & KATHLEEN MCDOWALL)
AGENESIS (noun) - a partial or complete absence. AGENESIS unleashes a polyrhythmic phasing in light and sound - a collapse in depth perception to bring the collective bodies of the audience and the surrounding room into a physical constellation of head-wrecking quasi-synaesthesia. The 1:1 relationship between the sound driving the light via custom-made lighting software draws from Edwin Land's work with light shadows following his invention of Polaroid photography and sunglasses - themselves processes which eliminate to allow us to see differently, a new whole from a partial or complete absence.
https://www.recordedfields.net/live/agenesis-dmx/
Documentation:

Album version: https://robertcurgenven.bandcamp.com/album/agenesis
Robert Curgenven produces albums, performances and installations that emphasize physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture. Curgenven has produced works for National Gallery of Australia, Musée du Quai Branly (Paris), National Museum of Poland (Krakow), Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), National Sculpture Factory (Ireland), MONOM/4DSound (Berlin), New Music Dublin, National Film and Sound Archive (Australia) and performances at festivals including Sydney Festival (Sydney Town Hall), Maerzmusik (Kraftwerk Berlin), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Ultrahang (Budapest) and Insomnia (Tromsø/Norway).
https://www.recordedfields.net/bio/
Kathleen McDowall’s performance work embraces the abstract and the physical in equal measures via a very concrete approach. Her solo physical performances include Performance Art Oslo (Norway), Sample Studios (Cork) as well as residencies in Arctic Norway, Forte Marghera (Venice) and Oxford Art Factory (Sydney). She’s presented international festival performances in collaboration with Curgenven on their AGENESIS and SPECTRES live light and sound. The past 20 years in her professional career McDowall has worked as a speech and language therapist in community and clinical settings. She has recently written her first novel for young adults.
https://www.recordedfields.net/live/kat-mcdowall/
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