The Unwrinkled Ear presents a night of electricity reimagined and re-sourced by three adventure-mongers from across the spectrum of wavelength surf-plumbing. The sounds of water will be near voltage, but smoothly and with revelation.
Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician visiting Los Angeles from unceded Wangal land. Through her practice Alex reimagines the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a communion of conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions. (She holds the belief that electricity might actually be magic.)
Alex has presented her art and music across four continents and curates a sound series when at home. She has released her music with Room40, Longform editions, Mappa, Canti Magnetici (solo), More Mars & Infant Tree (as Banana), receiving recommendations and reviews in the likes of The Quietus, The Wire and Bandcamp.
Sally Duke’s music compacts the visceral reaction of butter melting in a biscuit with the solidified crunch of a paprika crust breaking apart into tidbits. For this concert she will perform "$94.99 Version of Princess." The electric bass and amp together cost $94.99, new. Feedback will be considered because it hurts and scares me a little and I want to get closer to it. Choreography could be at play.
Samantha Simmons, a Berlin and Los Angeles-based sound artist and selector, investigates the transformative process of sound in contemporary culture through her research in sound installation and composition. Drawing from her experience in radio and residencies at platforms like WFMU, NTS, and Dublab, she explores how sound installation and composition can represent the transformation of sound in the listening process. She researches the constant flux of processing our collective sound environment: how sound is recycled and re-consumed to shape our listening experience in a process she calls a recycled listening. She has performed in three continents and whooped it up in all of them.
