Night four of send + receive v27! An evening of new and experimental music co-presented with GroundSwell.
Liew Niyomkarn is a sound artist and composer with a background in experimental sound practice and performance. Her work primarily explores layers of sound, repetition of notes, harmonic spectra, and resonances achieved through acoustic string instruments such as the zither and lyre, which she employs to craft various tuning systems. She integrates field recordings to capture the essence of time and the narration of memory through sound. These elements are woven into her sonic palette, highlighting the intrinsic properties of sound—its polyphonic characteristics, slowness, nostalgia, and the manipulation of extended decays and harmonics. She presents her work through live performances and sound installations.
Liew holds an MFA from CalArts and studied Sonology in The Hague. She has presented her work at venues and festivals such as High Zero Festival (Baltimore), Bozar (Belgium), WORM (Rotterdam), STUK (Belgium), DAAD (Berlin), Rewire Festival (The Hague), Oscillation Festival (Brussels), Dour Festival (Dour), Meakusma (Eupen), Seendosi (Seoul), and Toneelhuis (Antwerp), among others. She has also led graphic score workshops and collaborated in a research group with her long-term collaborator, Velma Spell. Liew is based in Brussels and Bangkok.
Founded in 2014, Savant Flaneur is an experimental music artist collective working on Treaty 1 Territory. Often referred to as “chamber punk,” Savant Flaneur tries to expel the dichotomy between western art music and colloquial music scenes by collaborating with a wide array of artists in a variety of genres and practices. Savant Flaneur is one gifted idler, a virtuosic procrastinator, the slacking wunkerkind.
Qiujiang Levi Lu is a NYC-based performance artist, experimental musician, composer, and educator. Their work transforms the body into a sonic object through interactions with movements and audio technology, exploring identity, sound, and space. Lu designs customized feedback systems with cyborg-like body augmentations inspired by Objectophilia/animism. These include special microphones, speakers placed within bodily orifices, and an augmented amplified laptop. Their resulting performances consist of choreographed, ritualistic improvisations building upon ancient Chinese drumming traditions to manifest body dysmorphia, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality. As the second-prize winner of the International Electronic Music Competition 2023, their works have been featured internationally, including MATA Festival, High Zero Festival, Inkonst, E-Flux, IRCAM Forum, and Le Poisson Rouge. Lu has also been an artist-in-residence at ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks TIP, and Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm. Lu is currently a lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
matthew gervais has lived in winnipeg his whole life. his work is an attempt to reflect his own already false memories of this place, of night and strangers voices, of streetlights beating against a starless sky, the way a rushing river is not a mirror.
using electronic means such as synthesizers, casio sampling keyboards, cellphone field recordings and tape machines this memory deforms again and again until the thing that remains is the remains of itself.
ian bell is a montréal-based photographer and ambient musician working with samples, digital image, and contact microphone percussion. He has released numerous solo recordings and contributed to bands as a drummer and percussionist. His collaboration with matthew gervais relies on contact mic percussion elements manipulated with effects and other techniques informed by free improvisation.
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