Boundary Condition Anniversary: Thomas Stone - Dirar Kalash - Roxanna Albayati - Gisou Golshani

Name: Boundary Condition Anniversary: Thomas Stone - Dirar Kalash - Roxanna Albayati - Gisou Golshani
Start: 2024-11-23T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-23T23:00:00+00:00
Location: St James Garlickhythe

Schedule

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 05:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St James Garlickhythe | London, EN

Boundary Condition III Anniversary features 9+ artists in a hybrid of audiovisual live sets & immersive projections; séances in disused vessels, resonant spaces, performative dialogues of intergenerations, dissonances and cyclic rhythms, Homeric myths, rituals of belonging and resistance, Iranian neoclassical music, alchemising grief, Sardinian paganism, chants, endurance performance, ethnographic research, celtic folk, decaying drone, Norse symbolism, fragile beauty, and heavy hauntology in a historic 12th century church.
The immersive projection mappings of the architecture performed in St James Garlickhythe Church will dissect and reverse engineering elements of Sergei Parajanov's work. In an attempt to induce the feeling that the space has been excavated or archaeologically unearthed from narratives of his work; as a time capsule comprising the historical sediment of his fragmented scenarios.
St James Garlickhythe is a parish church nicknamed "Wren's lantern owing to its profusion of windows. The earliest surviving reference to the church is as ecclesiam Sancti Jacobi in a 12th-century will. All was lost in the Great Fire. Rebuilding began a decade later, as recorded on the Victorian vestry boards prominent in the church porch.

Thomas Stone presents two works - Neither Created Nor Destroyed and Of Science & Superstition.
The related works take influence from the chamber works of Dmitri Shostakovich, the bassoon writing of Sofia Gubaidulina and the experimental techno of Pan Sonic and Emptyset to yield a sound world of searching chromatic motifs set against sub-bass oscillations and kick drum pulses, exploring the point where superstition and science overlap.
Thomas Stone is an electroacoustic composer and musician from London. His practice focuses on live performance, reconciling disparate influences such as his tinnitus, physical endurance, false memories, the physical effect of sound, séance, bass music and 20th century composition. Refined through presentation in various resonant spaces (from churches to a disused water tank, Cornish coastal caves to the hull of a ship) his compositions use contrabassoon and sampling devices as oscillators for his snare drum. Blurring the boundaries between acoustic and electronic sound sources, his post-classical / post-techno soundscapes use the relatively ugly means of long tones, dissonances and cyclic rhythms to reach moments of austere, fragile beauty. Thomas has performed throughout the UK including shows at Tate Britain, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery and BBC Radio 3.
https://www.thomasstonemusic.com/
https://bloxhamtapes.bandcamp.com/album/an-act-of-surrender-2

Roxanna Albayati presents SHEKARE ĀZĀDI
SHEKARE AZADI is a performative dialogue of generations, the struggle of inner and outer worlds colliding, confronting and finding space to heal. The audience are invited to experience a diasporic chase for freedom, dedicated to the women of Iran. The interdisciplinary project began formation over the course of 2022, when Roxanna spent the year interrogating different environments and herself within these spaces. This personal as well as location-based journey explored the ever-evolving concept of identity, freedom and becoming. It was first premiered during Roxanna's solo residency at Zaratan Arte Contemporânea in 2022, and subsequently in 2024 as part of Zaratan's performance cycle "VOLTAS".
Roxanna Albayati is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and music educator. Her practice centres around combining experimental music with performance art and audio-visuals, where her music merges cross-cultural improvisation with Iranian Dastgāh and the physicality of performance. Through an embodied research and artistic practice, Roxanna explores the conscious/subconscious and self/other, interrogating their interplay internally and materially, whilst considering this through the perspective of Orientalist constructions and female place in society, fascinated by the process and natural evolution of discovery. She has performed and worked extensively across Europe, including at Cafe Oto (London, 2023), Northen Ballet (Leeds, 2023), Halaqat - Goethe Institute (Brussels, 2022), METRIC IP (Tallinn, 2020), Casa das Artes/Sismógrafo (Porto, 2021), Sound Festival (Sound Scotland, 2021) and Abastan Factory (Armenia, 2023).

https://www.roxannaalbayati.com/works

Dirar Kalash
dirar kalash is a Palestinian musician, sound artist, Sonic Liberation Front founder whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental (oud, piano, saxophone), compositional and improvisational contexts. kalash also extends his practice into inter-disciplinary theoretical research. he has produced several solo and collaborative musical albums and is active as touring musician, in addition to that he also created several sound installations, live audio-visual performances (Exist Festival, Cafe Oto, Refuge Worldwide), and photography projects. The Sonic Liberation Front was established on Radio alHara راديو الحارة as an act of resistance by a collective of sound artists who recorded the sound of protests in Palestinian streets, aiming to unite and support the people of Palestine.
https://www.dirarkalash.info/
https://depthunknown.com/

Il Santo Bevitore and The Seer
Il Santo Bevitore and The Seer come together with their first collaboration to date; a short trilogy based on The Völuspá, an Old Norse poem that describes the life cycles of birth, death and rebirth through the words of a Seeress, or Völva, called by Odin to share her memories and prophecies with humankind.
ISB (Drums, Percussions, Electronics) is Nicola Serra’s ethnographic research and sound project which explores folklore and pagan mysteries from his native land of Sardinia. Nicola is an Italian born musician, producer and sound engineer based in London. He’s the founder and curator of Dronica, renowned experimental sound-art UK festival, as well as the curator and resident artist of Ritualtronics. ISB has performed across Europe and has released on a number of labels such as Opal Tapes, Aurora Borealis, An Trinse, Champion Version, Borders Of Known, Modern Bon, Attenuation Circuit and Amek Collective.
The Seer (Cello, Vocals, Piano and Flute) is the performance and sound project created by London based artist Conny Prantera. The Seer is a multimedia live performance that interlocks A/V, music, theatre and performance art. The project is based on unpublished writings that explore the story of a prophet in a timeless frame, floating between Homeric myths and personal memoir. The Seer was nominated by Red Bull Academy as one of the “7 women audiovisual artists pushing boundaries and challenging perceptions.” The Seer was also named by Elephant Magazine as one of “the Women Rewriting the Audiovisual Rulebook” and by The Quietus as part of the “New Weird Britannia” music phenomenon.
https://industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/aksu-and-il-santo-bevitore-the-seer
http://www.nicolaserra.co.uk/
https://www.theseer.co.uk/

HAAR
The collaborative duo of Gisou Golshani and B E O R H T A. HAAR vibrates from the pit of the earth. An untamed (Farsi translation) thick fog (Gaelic translation)as a reflection of and reaction to its environment. The project was founded in a time of mass genocide, and through embodying the grief and rage of different elements such as water, soil and rusting metal, it tunes into land grief and folk mythology. Drone based; featuring extended vocal technique and heavy hauntology.
Gisou Golshani is a London-based, multidisciplinary artist from Iran. Through sound art, performance, and poetic chants she performs rituals of belonging and resistance. Through movement and chants Gisou interprets a Persian song’s wish for the universe to resolve current entanglements. Guttural and ethereal live vocals are layered onto industrial doom and drone elements. The Persian lyrics call for freedom, and a release from the trap of doomed fate. Her recent performances include Iklectik Art Lab and Deptford X festival in London, and Diasporas Now UK tour at Humber Street Gallery in Hull.
B E O R H T A emerges from celtic folk traditions, channelling grief work through the voice (caoineadh) with and alongside the land. Their ceremonial performances invite an exploration of ancestral ties and fragmentation as a way to confront mass repression of how we process loss; both personally and interdependently. A spell of evolving and decaying drone, dark votive harmonies and spoken word- this project is dedicated to the magical practice of sharing presence through silence and sound as a form of alchemising grief into mobilising.
https://www.instagram.com/_h_a_a_r/?hl=en

https://linktr.ee/Glassforbrains

Ruben Sonnoli
Ruben is an Italian key and synth performer, trained as a jazz pianist but fascinated by electronic music, he combines harmonic and melodic material with electronic processing and samples
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/ruben-sonnoli/
Billy Pleasant
Billy Pleasant is Boundary Condition's resident projectionist, working with a range of mechanisms including generative projectionism, reverse perspective illusion , AI rendering, organic footage, projection mapping, sound-responsive visuals, and collagist audio-visual approaches.
https://www.instagram.com/billissippi/