UNCONSCIOUS ARCHIVES #20

JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPORTE
BILLY ROISZ
LOUISE MAGNUSSON

WEDNESDAY 24TH FEBRUARY 2016
7pm – 9:30pm
£5 / £7
South London Gallery
65-67 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UH

Physical and sensorial sound and vision from French-Canadian electroacoustic experimenter Jean-François Laporte, Viennese synaesthetic artist Billy Roisz, and the noise instrument performances of Louise Magnusson from the north of Sweden. Ongoing sound art and audiovisual event series, in partnership with South London Gallery for this special event.

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JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPORTE | Quebec, Canada

Jean-François Laporte is a composer, sound artist and instrument builder from Quebec, Canada, who creates thunderous corporeal sound performances, deep listening experiences and performative actions, enveloping the audience in moments of sonic ecstatic. Pursuing a hybrid approach integrating visual arts and sound exploration, Laporte creates instruments which are activated and controlled by computer and robotised means, but which ultimately meet acoustic ends, and which often conjure the forces of nature as influence. With an intuitive approach to creating music, Laporte learns art through concrete experimentation on matter, his unique artistic vision relying on the active listening of each sound / object / material.

Since the mid 1990s Laporte has been developing and making new musical instruments (Tu-Yo, Bowl, FlyingCan, Sax-trunk, Vibrating Membranes and Siren Organ), and since 2002 he has created visual and sound installations both solo and in collaboration. As a composer Laporte has written over 80 works which have been performed at festivals across the globe, earning him numerous awards and commissions.

Laporte is a PhD candidate at the University of Huddersfield (UK), and his works are available on Babel Scores Edition (contemporary music online), and he continues to make and exhibit work via the outlet Productions Totem Contemporain.

“Jean-François Laporte works with the concrete, seeks the unlimited, and banks on the unpredictable, a Faustian risk that serves to renew music in this young century.” – Richard Simas, Music Works

Jean-François Laporte – The Pipe, robotised wind instrument controlled via iPad or computer
Jean-François Laporte – Qi, large scale vision and sound installation

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BILLY ROISZ | Vienna, Austria

Billy Roisz is one of the best known figures on the Austrian experimental scene, combining her favoured technologies with an intuitive approach to the mind’s internal perception of sensory data input. Her interest in translating experimental music into ‘visual memory images’ is both informed by and extends upon minimal and conceptual art. She specializes in feedback video and video/sound interaction by using monitors, cameras, video mixing desks, a self-built video synth, computers, bass guitar and turntables. Focusing on the links and gaps between visual and auditive perception, Roisz seeks to reimagine the interchangeability or unity of the electromagnetic signal in her audiovisual generating machines.

Noisycolors is Roisz’s new solo project, and her most recent projects include Bass & TV Dining, NotTheSameColor/RISC (/w dieb13), CILANTRO (/w Angélica Castelló) and ONA (/w Ilpo Väisänen). She is member of the SYNCHRONATORCHESTRA (/w Gert-Jan Prins, Bas van Koolwijk, Jerome Noetinger, Robin Fox, Justin Bennett, Tina Frank) and THE ELKS (/w Kai Fagaschinski, Liz Albee, Marta Zapparoli). She has also performed with Silvia Faessler (SKYLLA), JD Zazie, Toshimaru Nakamura (AVVA), Burkhard Stangl, Taku Unami, Mario de Vega, Anat Stainberg, Peter Kutin, Sachiko M., Michaela Grill, Martin Brandlmayr, eRikm, Martin Siewert, Alvin Lucier and Metamkine. Her video works are distributed by Sixpackfilm, and her first solo LP Walking The Monkey is released on Editions Mego. Roisz is co-organizer/programmer of the annual REHEAT Festival, Austria.

“Billy Roisz has been operating at the fringes of post-Mego Viennese electronics and electroacoustic Improv since the late 90s.. Walking The Monkey is her solo debut, and is a sharp piece of work. Its six tracks.. [are] all carefully balanced, ostensibly loose, roaming motion belying a smart compositional sensibility.” – Nick Cain, The Wire

“Editions Mego serve up their 2nd release featuring Vienna’s Billy Roisz – a mysterious and masterfully dense, dynamic work of electro-acoustic composition.” – Boomkat

Billy Roisz – Bass & TV Dining, live audiovisual set
Billy Roisz homepage

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LOUISE MAGNUSSON | Gothenburg, Sweden

Louise Magnusson is a sound artist and composer originally from the north of Sweden, and an active member of the Gothenburg sound art scene. Magnusson works with the idea of ’tactile’ and ‘subjective signaling systems’ as her main philosophy which influences her range of built instruments and performances which touch on elements of drone, folk and electroacoustic sound art. Exploring what sound, thought and touch have in common and their relationship to the experience of the world is what drives her work.

Her live performances focus on noise music and her intent is to express and explore the potential of ‘communication’ through sound as a physical experience. Through the use of feedback through materials such as wood and steel, Magnusson develops instruments that are both controlled and have a life of their own. Her performances are shaped by her underpinning notion that speech may come before structure in an intuitive, imagined language.

Magnusson is a member of Geiger – the Gothenburg association for new, experimental music. She is also a producer for Magnet new music festival, Sweden.

Louise Magnusson homepage
Louise Magnusson on Soundcloud
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Banner image: Jean-François Laporte

With thanks to Simon Parris at South London Gallery

This UA event has been undertaken while curator Sally Golding is on residency with Sound and Music at South London Gallery