Bartholomew (Chris Bartholomew) is an electronic musician and creative technologist based in Newcastle. His music combines experimental and generative techniques with acoustic instrumentation to tell personal stories and evoke landscapes – real and imaginary. The results are cinematic, emotive and filled with textures. In a record store, you’d find his records alongside Bonobo, Hannah Peel or Ludwig Gorannson.
Subterranea continues the sonic themes of his previous album Moorbound – the blending of acoustic and electronic textures rolling under sweeping melodies. Thematically is where the two diverge – whilst the former was full of nervous optimism for the future, the latter deals with the fallout of the plans which go wrong, the preparation that fails and winds that bend even the trees with the thickest roots. Subterranea is a recognition of the importance of stability to Bartholomew, the pain of uprooting and an acceptance of the limits of his control.
Lauren Sarah Hayes
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish improviser, sound artist, and scholar who is recognised for her embodied approach to computer music. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/live electronics/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’. As a live sound sculptor, she manipulates, remixes, and bends voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software. She has toured extensively across Europe and North America, including as part of her tenure with the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Her work has been released on Superpang, Hard Return, Pan Y Rosas Discos, LOL Editions, Werra Foxma, Sunwarped, and Harmonic Ooze Records
David De La Haye
David explores our perception of beauty, microsound, and more-than-human interaction with nature through meticulous hydrophone recordings and bioacoustic technologies. He is currently commissioned by Swiss Academy of Sciences, co-delivering a large-scale project for Creative Scotland, and working alongside Prof. Anne Whitehead on ‘Sounding The Angel’.
He is a PhD student at Newcastle University, in the same department he completed his masters degree on Glitch and Aesthetics of Digital Failure in 2004. Prior to this he studied bass at Leeds Conservatoire.
AGE RESTRICTIONS Children and young people under 16 years old may attend events accompanied by an adult (age over 18). They are not allowed to enter the premises after 9pm and they must leave the premises by midnight. Under 16s are not allowed to purchase soft drinks, but they may consume soft drinks bought for them by their accompanying adult. 16 and 17 year olds are allowed to attend events unaccompanied by an adult and they may purchase soft drinks. They must leave the premises by midnight.
Jul 24 – Bartholomew – Subterranea (album launch)
Thursday 24 July, 7:30pm (doors 7pm)
Tickets: £10 cash on the door or PayPal tarquinwood23@hotmail.com
Description
Bartholomew
Bartholomew (Chris Bartholomew) is an electronic musician and creative technologist based in Newcastle. His music combines experimental and generative techniques with acoustic instrumentation to tell personal stories and evoke landscapes – real and imaginary. The results are cinematic, emotive and filled with textures. In a record store, you’d find his records alongside Bonobo, Hannah Peel or Ludwig Gorannson.
Subterranea continues the sonic themes of his previous album Moorbound – the blending of acoustic and electronic textures rolling under sweeping melodies. Thematically is where the two diverge – whilst the former was full of nervous optimism for the future, the latter deals with the fallout of the plans which go wrong, the preparation that fails and winds that bend even the trees with the thickest roots. Subterranea is a recognition of the importance of stability to Bartholomew, the pain of uprooting and an acceptance of the limits of his control.
Lauren Sarah Hayes
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish improviser, sound artist, and scholar who is recognised for her embodied approach to computer music. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/live electronics/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’. As a live sound sculptor, she manipulates, remixes, and bends voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software. She has toured extensively across Europe and North America, including as part of her tenure with the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Her work has been released on Superpang, Hard Return, Pan Y Rosas Discos, LOL Editions, Werra Foxma, Sunwarped, and Harmonic Ooze Records
David De La Haye
David explores our perception of beauty, microsound, and more-than-human interaction with nature through meticulous hydrophone recordings and bioacoustic technologies. He is currently commissioned by Swiss Academy of Sciences, co-delivering a large-scale project for Creative Scotland, and working alongside Prof. Anne Whitehead on ‘Sounding The Angel’.
He is a PhD student at Newcastle University, in the same department he completed his masters degree on Glitch and Aesthetics of Digital Failure in 2004. Prior to this he studied bass at Leeds Conservatoire.
AGE RESTRICTIONS
Children and young people under 16 years old may attend events accompanied by an adult (age over 18). They are not allowed to enter the premises after 9pm and they must leave the premises by midnight. Under 16s are not allowed to purchase soft drinks, but they may consume soft drinks bought for them by their accompanying adult.
16 and 17 year olds are allowed to attend events unaccompanied by an adult and they may purchase soft drinks. They must leave the premises by midnight.
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