Lines of Flight:An Evening of Poetry and Music

‘Lines Of Flight’ is a collaboration between Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Martin Delaney. It began in 2022 as Martin Delaney’s experiment in creating music through randomisation and has expanded to include lines of multilingual poetry (English, French and Croatian) and vocal performance by Jasmina, with additional contributions from multi-instrumentalist Clive Bell.

A line of flight (French: ligne de fuite) is a concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. In an artistic sense, it can be understood as a rupture — a break from the “grid”. A melody that turns unexpectedly, or a poem that stutters between languages, can be heard as “taking flight” from its original form.

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Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani is a London-based interdisciplinary artist and poet born in Zagreb. Over the past decade, she has developed a multi-faceted practice rooted in multiple cultural backgrounds and media, moving between published text works and live collaborative performance. Her latest multilingual poetry project, Alphabet, engages with Arabic script and calligraphy, exploring her maternal Algerian/French heritage and family history. Website: https://jasminabradovani.com.

Martin Delaney is a musician, composer, visual artist, and writer. His latest EP Sort Of A While is available now. He is currently using VR to create and perform music in 3D spaces. Martin is also a music technology educator and published horror writer. Website: https://www.youtube.com/@VRMusicPlanet

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