Flow////State___: Flowers/Ghosts&Echoes //////// Arvind Ganga

Flow////State___ album release event:

Flowers/Ghosts&Echoes

An immersive audio-visual experience: 

slow moving drones, electric guitar ambience, and sculptural light

opening act:

Arvind Ganga

Sound from all directions: 

a complex and ethereal multi-channel electric guitar experience 

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Doors - 19:30

Start - 20:00

End - 21:30

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Flowers/Ghosts&Echoes is an audio-visual project based in The Hague, The Netherlands. 

It’s a project where the audio world and the visual world are interwoven and in constant conversation with each other. The result is a deeply immersive experience, where the visual component is an equal partner to the music and the performance space, drawing the audience into a world that can be at once calm and meditative, yet intense and highly moving.

The sonic side of the project features the guitar duo of Gonçalo Oliveira and James A.-McEwan, who unfold slow-moving instrumental landscapes of drones, post-rock ambience, noise-inflected textures, and post-minimalist environments. They showcase the unique capabilities of their instruments, in a carefully developed duo interaction. 

Their sound world interacts with the performative visuals of Felix Bodin, created with his self-designed visual instrument: a mirrored surface that bends, spreads, or focuses digital projections into shifting sculptural fields of light. His visual language is woven into the fabric of the project, forming an engrossing and captivating experience. 

This performance is to celebrate the release of their second album, titled Flow////State___, which is co-released by the labels Wormhole World (UK) and Geertruida (NL), on March 13th. The album will be available for purchase at the concert on CD, cassette, and also as poster plus download code. 

Link To Flow////State___

https://flowersghostsechoes.bandcamp.com/album/flow-state

Link to Live Video

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Arvind Ganga is fascinated by the physicality of the guitar and the wide range of sounds it produces when any of its parts are played with objects, magnetic fields, or his bare hands: an approach he describes as using “improper techniques”. His music is raw and direct, whether it's abrasive or delicate, and continually crosses the border between music and abstract sound.

Opening tonight’s concert, he presents his Three Amplifier Immersive Guitar Sound System Experience: a rudimentary yet effective diy multi-channel setup that immerses the audience in sound coming from all directions. From sparse, crackling textures and ethereal radiant drones, to dense webs of mingling, fusing and colliding sounds, he presents an intense yet joyful experience, created live on the spot, investigating the perception of sound and music.

arvindganga.net

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