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sm^sher the moniker of Stroud based artist and producer Imogen Mason who delivers impulsive, visceral tapestries of fractured beats, drone-backed folk song and electronic collage.
Kai Chareunsy, a drummer, composer, and music facilitator based in Birmingham. Field recordings collected from the dense jungles to the busy towns of Laos are interweaved alongside samples of traditional instruments to create compositions that have the freedom of improvised music.
The exciting sonic offering of spatial audio creates an all encompassing, immersive experience for audiences, and kicks off a new series of high-quality listening events for Birmingham.
Tickets are Pay What You Can:
£10 (standard) / £13 (pay it forward) / £7 (low income)
You can choose which payment option suits you best – no catch, no questions.
sm^sher | listen here |
sm^sher is the moniker of Stroud based artist and producer Imogen Mason.
Her debut album Pit of Mine was released last year on unruly London label Scrawl, garnering praise from the likes of BBC 6Music, The Quietus, DIY, Stereogum, Electronic Sound and NTS. sm^sher's sonic world is impulsive, visceral and tapestried; weaving meditations on memory, grief, addiction, introversion and hope around industrial soundscape, fractured beats, drone-backed folk song and collage.
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Kai Chareunsy is a drummer, composer, and music facilitator based in Birmingham. He has recently been exploring his identity as a dual heritage Lao-British person through composition.
Part of this exploration has involved learning to play and compose with a bamboo mouth organ called the Khaen, the national instrument of Laos. There is an old saying: ‘People living in houses on stilts, eating sticky rice, and playing Khaen can only be Laotian or their brothers’.
This set will be split into a listening of the EP in spatial audio, followed by a live spatialised set.
Releasing his debut EP of this music online the following day, all the money from the EP sales will be going to a charity who clear un exploded bombs from the ground in Laos left over from the Vietnam War: https://restorationlaos.org/donate
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