Beachers / Leyden Jars / Mute Frequencies at Hundred Years Gallery
Schedule
Fri, 29 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Hundred Years Gallery | London, EN
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Beachers is the project of London-based Daryl Worthington. He works in the crossovers between accidental and composed sounds, hi and lo-fi audio, with a particular interest in the beauty of the mundane. This takes an array of approaches, from explorations of the materiality and tactility of radio signals through to analogue synthesis, field recording, cassette collages, abstract guitar and sample-based computer music. Beachers releases have appeared on czaszka (rec.), Fractal Meat, Wabi-Sabi Tapes and his own ineffectual suns label. For this event he will be interpreting pieces from his forthcoming tape ‘Horns of Death’, playing a replica fox-hunting horn and electronics.
https://ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-of-death
Leyden Jars play tender abrasions. Damaged music that sparkles as light glints of its cracked and abraded surface. The Leyton-based duo sound like they’re broadcasting from a light-starved basement, but their transmissions are not hermetically sealed or monochrome. Weird intrusions creep into their wavelength and create a luminous blur of fidelities: A dubby wielding of the mixing desk as both filter and frequency amplifier. A slowed and whittled version of post-punk that resonates with the delicate pace and space of Young Marble Giants. A DIY approach to musique concrete and electro-acoustic strategies that douses their music in a clangorous shimmer equal parts bedroom GRM and the scrapes and rustles of the more textured ends of free-improvisation. Occasionally it stays in an oblique swirl, sometimes threads of song and melody weave through the ether. Beyond Leyden Jars they’re collaborators (in Filterbeds), occasional solo artists (PicoFarad), dabblers in alter-egos (as Oyl) and curators of the ever-vital Goods Outward label. These strands all feel part of the same way beautifully off-kilter universe.
Their music makes most sense when witnessed live. The pair face-to-face, each wielding a mixer and an assortment of sound generators electric and acoustic. As instruments are played and objects are sounded a stream of sound and song, rhythm and texture is constantly sculpted and whittled before your ears and eyes. Fluctuating, precarious. A flicker of space-time that’s scuffed yet curiously enchanted.
https://leydenjars.bandcamp.com/
Mute Frequencies is the sound art project of Ilia Rogatchevski and Laura Rogatchevskaia, both former members of the London experimental rock band Sebastian Melmoth. The duo work within the intersections of sound, performance and visual media, often focusing on ideas relating to imperceptibility. Their name is a reference to the inaudible frequencies of the audio spectrum and the electromagnetic frequencies that transmit information, such as radio waves. They have installed work at the London galleries Dilston Grove and Project DIVFUSE, and performed at festivals including Supernormal, End of the Road and Open House. A recording of their performance using VLF field recordings and mini-FM transmitters at Halle’s Radio Revolten festival was released by MFZ Records in 2023. Their Radiophonic Workshop-inspired paean to the Arctic, Svalbard Soundtracks, followed several months later on Flaming Pines.
The duo is currently investigating the sonic signatures of sewing machines with Unthread (2023-25), a project that surfaces ideas about manufacture, fast fashion and our relationship to clothes by interweaving expanded cinema, field recordings and interviews with people involved in the garment industry.
https://mutefrequencies.wordpress.com
https://mutefrequencies.bandcamp.com/music
Instagram: @mutefrequencies
Doors 7:30pm
£10 entry
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Where is it happening?
Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, London, E2 8JD, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
