"For me, experimental music is about trying to expand the psychological space that exists between signal detection and noise confusion, between understanding and mystery."
During a residency at GMEM, Sydney Koke composed audio tracks. Used in a semi-improvised live performance in a multi-aural sound environment, her intention is to facilitate a unique psychological experience created by the interactions between the performer, technicians, curators and audience members.
By experimenting with uncertainty, spatiality and rhythm, as well as reacting to sounds and events in the performance space, his goal is to generate an intimate and immersive environment that pushes the boundaries of musical models and expectations, and offers an expression of sincere and unconcealed experimentation.
She is inspired by the early electronic experiments of musicians such as Cabaret Voltaire, This Heat, Throbbing Gristle and Ruth White, inevitably filtered through her life experience.
Production
GMEM
Within the framework of
la Belle Fête de Mai
In partnership with The Convent
Sydney Koke
composer, performer
Neuroscientist turned psychic soundscape scientist, Sydney Koke (Slaylor Moon / Two Form a Click / Shearing Pinx / The Courtneys) specializes in a form of queer, spooky, dislocated electronic abstraction assembled from the disparate substrates of early 2000s experimental electronic music, old school rave, 70s industrial, no wave and noise rock.
Originally from Calgary, Canada and now based in Paris, Koke studied neuroscience, psychology and contemporary art in the US and Canada. She composes and tours internationally with various musical projects in the experimental, electronic, ambient, noise rock and grunge style and exhibits visual art in Canada and the US. Her debut solo album Zone of Pure Resistance was released on Maple Death Records (Italy) in 2019.
The Convent, Marseille
52 Rue Levat13003
Marseille
RATE
Free admission subject to availability
DURATION
1h00
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Le Couvent
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Sydney Koke
composition, performance