An Improvised Evening 8: Earth and Space

Madil Hardis's ethereal, and unsurpassed, vocal technique melds into Cainy Yiru's meta-visuals 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.

Cainy Yiru

Interdisciplinary Artist, Director, Designer

2016 - 2018, Designer

Cainy joined the as a startup member. Focused on product design and enhancement of VeeR's brand visuals, significantly improving aesthetic appeal and ensuring consistency across all visual communications. and was crucial in launching the VeeR VR content platform.

2018 - 2020, VeeR VR Studio Production Director

Cainy spearheaded VeeR Studio under VeeR VR, a division committed to developing original VR short films and interactive experiences. She directed the production of 12 VR films by collaborating with traditional filmmakers and distributed several award-winning projects. Veer Studio content production includes VR CGI animated shorts, interactive VR branching drama shorts, VR live performance recordings, VR theatre performance extras design, and special edition VR content in collaboration with immersive theatre content. The '' was shortlisted for the 2020 Cannes XR, and the '' was screened at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.

2021 - 2024, Interdisciplinary Artist

Cainy pursued her MA studies in at the Royal College of Art in the UK. She explores ways to blend traditional art, theatre, and performance with creative technology, creating multi-sensory portals that evoke deep emotions. By integrating virtual reality content with real spaces, she aims to restore narratives to physical environments and capture the live tension of performances. Her aim is to transform intangible narratives into diverse, resonant moments and transcendent experiences.During this period, her art was showcased at various international locations, including IRCAM at the Pompidou Center in Paris; BBA in Berlin, London Design Week, Cromwell Place, Slash Art, World on Water, IKLECTIK in the UK; Aranya Theatre Festival and No Theater in China; and the Art Week Italia di Santa Maria del Fiore and Florence Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition in Italy. She also joined the members of the Italian Art Society.
Her work delves into the relationship between audience, creator, and medium. She is committed to achieving a fusion of poetic, immersive narrative, and future storytelling methods in various forms of artistic expression, continually producing meaningful and vibrant works.

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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