An Improvised Evening 8: Earth and Space

Madil Hardis's ethereal, and unsurpassed, vocal technique melds into Pat Grimm's stunning Liquid Lights and Cheslav Singh's prepared piano.

Madil Hardis

Madil Hardis is an award-winning audiovisual artist with a background in classical and electronic music, filmmaking and fine art. With raw honesty and vulnerability, her creations navigate the emotional landscapes of isolation, connection, and self-discovery, encapsulating feelings without words.
Her creative and compositional practice encompasses a range of media, including film, theatre, contemporary dance, and immersive installations.

Pat Grimm

Pat Grimm is an artist focusing on developing liquid projection designs. She is collaborates with sound artists whose style's range from psychedelic rock to electronic and ambient, and finds meaningful connections of expression that unite the senses. Her DIY analog/digital approach is a form of improvisation which is often raw and unpredictable due to physical, analogue manipulation, intentionally bypassing computers.

She prefers “hands on”, as it feels more direct to the sound interpretation.

Micro worlds are created in petri dishes as abstract organic liquid compositions, bubbles, droplets, melting colours, pulsating plasmas, chemically reacting components oozing to the sound have a hypnotising and therapeutic effect as emanations of natural forms of being.

She has performed from the fields of festivals in Glastonbury, Cornwall and Lithuania to London New River Studios, Iklectik, to St Giles church in Bromley.

Cheslav Singh

Cheslav Singh is a Canadian pianist based in London with international performance and pedagogical experience.

He has performed internationally at renowned venues (Rome, London, New York, Naples, Paris, Toronto), on radio (RAI 3) and television in many different contexts, playing everything from Beethoven to free jazz. He has been recognized as being able to ‘construct solid geometric sonorities, very well planned…’ and his playing is said to be ‘…engaging and meditative…’ (Massimiliano Cerito, June 2022). Since 2011, he has been actively involved in contemporary classical music, having co- founded the audiovisual group a=b=x=y.

He has appeared as a composer, composing for solo instruments to a full symphony orchestra. He is also the co-founder of Our ‘PL’ace Foundation, through which, among other activities, he co-curates an annual International Audiovisual Art Festival in Poznań, Poland since 2015. In 2024, LightSounds took place across four countries, in the UK, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia.

He remains active in searching for extended playing techniques on the border between acoustic and electronic music, plays the organ, has a keen interest in tuning systems and is an active student of Gurbāṇī Saṅgīta, having had the immense fortune of being able to work with and for its foremost exponent Bhai Baldeep Singh since 2013.

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