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Counterflows 2023

Mariam Rezaei, Maria Chavez & Victoria Shen in conversation with Frances Morgan

Date

7 April 2023

Venue

Community Central Halls, 304 Maryhill Rd, G20 7YE Venue Access

Programme

doors
14:00
performance
14:15 – 16:00

Tickets

Pay what you can ↗
Standard £7 + bf ↗
Solidarity £12 + bf ↗
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Join Mariam Rezaei, Maria Chavez and Victoria Shen in conversation with Frances Morgan, following the debut of their newly commissioned work the previous night.

Part discussion, part listening party, they will explore the work they made together, their different approaches to their instrument and various sites of inspiration.

Mariam Rezaei

Mariam Rezaei (she/her) is a multi-award-winning composer and performer. Her work is at the intersection of hip-hop and new experimental turntable practices combined with a grounding in new music aesthetics and philosophy. Her music has recently been described as “genuinely ground-breaking” (LCMF 2022, London Jazz News) and “high-velocity sonic surrealism” (LCMF 2022, 4* The Guardian).  […]

Maria Chavez

(New York, US)

Maria Chavez (she/her) is an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ, renowned for repurposing broken vinyl into sonic sculptures that can sometimes be compared to improvised musique concrète pieces, or, conceptually, improvised sonic sculpture sessions. Her recital style approach focuses on the various forms of Deep Listening, a practice developed by her mentor Pauline Oliveros. […]

Evicshen

(San Francisco, US)

Evicshen is the nom de guerre of San Francisco-based sound artist, experimental music performer, and inventor Victoria Shen (she/her). Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the materiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analogue modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Shen’s music eschews conventions in harmony and rhythm […]