'OCEANS ON AZIMUTH' OUT NOW - REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Podcast interview with Ilia Rogatchevski
Lola de la Mata’s practice evolved out of weaving, printmaking and Labanotation and crosses over performance art, installation and sculpture. In this interview, Lola talks about her upcoming album 'Oceans on Azimuth', which reflects on her experiences of tinnitus. Her new compositions feature sonic landscapes crafted from throbbing heartbeats and otoacoustic emissions reimagined through musical instruments made from metal, glass, ceramics and ice. Photo: Rosie Terry Toogood
New Scientist Interview
After a blast of sound from a keyboard shot through her whole body, experimental musician Lola De La Mata was hit with debilitating tinnitus. It was so profound it left her with vertigo, difficulty walking, speech problems and unable to make music. Years later, she is now putting a spotlight on the condition with a new album, Oceans on Azimuth. Hear her story and music from the album in a special feature. Plus, read Clare Wilson’s recent feature about the future of tinnitus and hearing loss.
second single 'Stereocilia' out now!
NEW single 'PINK noise' out now - announcing album 'Oceans on Azimuth'
STOPMOTION by Robert Morgan, OUT NOW!
a crucial matter of balance, live @iklectik
Colliding Lines presents K I N E T I C, an anthology of poems reimagined and remixed.
Publication Launch @IKLECTIK, June 9th 2022
15 Questions - Interview // KOH - Klee - uh release
"My tinnitus is definitively here to stay. So I am learning to create with a different ear."
READ FULL INTERVIEW HERE
ZUBIN KANGA commission MARCH 18th 2022 @RNCM
The Body Electric is part of Submerge Festival 2022 - tickets £10
Join us for an evening of innovation as pianist Zubin Kanga performs intimate, wild and flamboyant cyborg works in a programme featuring queer composers and themes. Each work combines the piano with a range of sensors, synthesizers, strobe lights, electronics, video and cutting-edge digital instruments. Cyborg Soloists: The Body Electric is part of Submerge Festival 2022.
Robert Reid Allan Do you share coming out stories still? (world première)
Alwynne Pritchard Heart of Glass
CHAINES Escape from TERF-y Island (world première)
Lola da la Mata A meditation on unnatural corporeality in three tableaux (world première)
Zubin Kanga Hypnagogia (world première)
Luke Nickel hhiiddeenn vvoorrttiicceess (world première)
Zubin Kanga piano
Photo credit: Raphaael Neal
Poem 'Unknown Form' published in Queer Zine Dictionary @ Feminist Library
Printed Queer Zine Dictionary
116 pages
To celebrate Pride we are making available our wonderful Queer Dictionary Zine, available for the first time in printed form!
This new publication from the Feminist Library has contributions from over 40 artists exploring the idea of a ‘queer dictionary’ through original artworks and texts. Within these pages you’ll find illustrations, poetry, reclaimed words, but – most importantly – a space to exist within a queer, feminist family.
So, why a queer dictionary? As we know, language is important (fabulous). Language defines how we are categorised and treated by society, as constructed political beings. Language is slippery. It is reshaped over space and time as words and worlds evolve beyond their original conception. This reshaping is our power. We will continue to struggle and support each other as we strive to be defined how we choose, and we hope this (very queer) dictionary acts as a source of strength, reminding you (us) that we’re here together, as a queer community.
£13.50 including UK postage
£16.25 including EU postage
£17.85 including Rest of World postage
NULLA 0, a monolith publication launch @ Rich Mix / Spitalfields Music Festival/July 2nd 2021
Thrilled to have launch the feminist/queer zine "NULLA 0, a monolith” (run of 60) as part of a sound installation by the same name generously supported by Open Call Projects, Spitalfields Music Festival, Rich Mix and Help Musicians UK.
NULLA 0, a monolith first shown July 2nd 2021 at Rich Mix, part of Open Call x Spitalfields Music Festival 2021
Published 2021, London Lola de la Mata (project concept, digital images, sound, workshop leader)
Copyright Lola de la Mata, authors and participants © 2021.
With Special Thanks to:
Participants: Adèle Morand / Geaola Oluwakemi Adeyemi / Sven Ironside / Jasmin Kent Rodgman / Ruari Paterson-Achenbach / Kendall Perry / Shannon Latoyah / Joanna M Ward / Hannah Doucet
Collaborators: Sculptor - Grace Woodcock / Glass Blower - Marcin Czepiga / Publication - Samantha Whetton
Mentors: Niloo Sharifi / Mira Calix Quote
on title page: Sadie Plant, Zeros + ones : digital women + the new technoculture. Fourth Estate 1997
Layout: designprintbind.info
Typeset in Avara by Raphaël Bastide + Wei Huang + Lucas Le Bihan + Walid Bouchouchi + Jérémy Landes and Cantique by Sébastien Hayez + Ariel Martín Pérez, both from velvetyne.fr
Authentic Sans by Christina Janus and Desmond Wong Print
Printed and bound in the UK This publication was made possible with support from Spitalfields Music Festival 2021 and Help Musicians UK. The Open Call Showcase is presented in partnership with Rich Mix.
NULLA 0, a monolith the publication is being sold at the following places:
>London - Cafe OTO / The World of Echo / Libreria / London Art Books
>Manchester - PINK MCR
>Liverpool - News From Nowhere
>Glasgow - Good Press Please
Collaboration with Selina Thompson Ltd (Part 1)
selinatltd
“This week, we're working on Immersion!
Immersion is a collaboration between us, the People of Tower Hamlets and the Air they Breathe.
We've been outside working with a team of wonderful collaborators collecting sounds and breath from the women of Tower Hamlets. We've talked about anxiety, disability justice, pollution and lung capacity. We've also talked about healing, catharsis, and transformation.”
- Toni
#immersion#seasonsforchange#climatejustice
NULLA 0 - sound art show at Rich Mix, July 2nd / Spitalfields Music Festival 2021
NULLA 0 - a monolith, is a new sound art project developed through conversations with 9 participants on their English speaking voices who identify across non-binary, womxn and women (cis/trans), and were either born in London or moved to the city for a duration of time.
The project is about agency- amplifying voices that are often othered while sharing narratives which have typically been omitted from our collective histories. Together, we challenge the word ‘neutral’ - a term regularly associated with whiteness, middle class and binary voices, casually employed to flatly describe the voices of AI personal assistants who maintain their coded interactions as a master/slave role play. Initially meant as a series of in-person group workshops, the pandemic changed the landscape of the project by shifting our discussions onto a digital platform. Here, we met as two strangers launching into an incredibly intimate and vulnerable subject - the voice. The rawness of these exchanges however, are full of laughter and openness, full of individuality and considered thought.
These 1:1 conversations focused on how the participants experienced their own voices intersecting with gender, race and class, while equally considering the disembodied voice as a sonic mask, one that rewrites the inner voice as an alternate persona in the mind of the one who hears it. Following the first exchange, we met once more, this time collectively and anonymously with just our voices to define us to questioned the notion of a ‘common voice’, and attempted to write a manifesto which could hold and celebrate our difference.
As it evolved, NULLA 0, a monolith became a rich collaborative oral archive which resulted in a publication - a record and artefact of our otherwise ephemeral assembly, accompanied by a sonic composition from our conversations, fusing narratives and highlighting ‘bad’ sounds in the audio such as pops, clicks, reverb, hiss and silence. The composition is diffused amongst photographic textile pieces showing mouths, saliva and skin alongside pages from the publication. Commanding our attention in the centre of the space is a oversized C-mouth shaper sculptural work made in collaboration with artist Grace Woodcock, summoning soft and wet inner mouth forms and vocal chords, explicitly brought into our dimension using suedette, silicone, bolts, foam padding and perspex.
Project collaborators:
Participants - Adèle Morand / Geaola Oluwakemi Adeyemi / Sven Ironside / Jasmin Kent Rodgman / Ruari Paterson-Achenbach / Kendall Perry / Shannon Latoyah / Joanna M Ward / Hannah Doucet
Publication - Samantha Whetton, Design. Print. Bind.
Sculptor - Grace Woodcock
Glass Blowers - Marcin Czepig and Jahday Ford
EnTRE DEUX - Residency Part 1 @ Institut Français de Londres - May 2021
Collaborators:
Performance Artists / Dancers - Riccardo T. and Antonio Branco https://www.antonioandriccardo.com/
Flautist - Alyson Frazier https://www.alysonfrazier.com/
Violinists - Lara Agar https://www.laraagar.com/ + Lola de la Mata
Double Bassist - Gwen Reed https://gwendolynreed.com/
All Photos by Dimitri Djuric: https://www.dimitridjuric.com/
Podcast - Lola de la Mata and Joanna Ward discuss Open Scores, Listening, and Sound through a Feminist Lens
Launching the Feminist Library's Women’s History Month programme celebrating Women in Music throughout March. Lola de la Mata and Joanna Ward exchange their influences, research and practices to illustrate some of the ways in which scores and a composer's practice can evolve past the more commonly understood framing of the archaic notion of the lone "pale male and stale" composer.
The conversation touches on Pauline Oliveros' book of Deep Listening, the collection of open scores "Women's Work" published mid 1970s by Annea Lockwood and Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono's Instruction Score inspiring us to scream, Khyam Allami's article "Microtonality and the Struggle for Fretlessness in the Digital Age", Lola Olufemi's "Feminism Interrupted", Eliane Radigue's "The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal", and "Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto" by Legacy Russell...among some other wonderful mentions.
Curator @The Feminist Library for Women's History Month March 2021
LINK TO PROGRAMME HERE
LINK TO SUPPORT THE LIBRARY HERE
This March, the Feminist Library will spend Women’s History Month celebrating women in music. We have an exciting range of events planned, covering experimental composition, unknown female composers, digital musicians, Italian feminist activist music and sound system culture. Tune in to live radio show, events, discussions and live performances on Zoom, on-demand film screenings, and a musical social media takeover! Research on the Library’s archive materials and other elements from women creating music will also be shared on the Library’s website.
MIU MIU CAMPAIGN SS21
VIEW CAMPAIGN HERE , featuring ‘curtain call’ from REMISE EN BOUCHE
Cinematography by Alexander Ingham Brooke for @miumiu #miumiuspring2021
Campaign by Rasharn Agyemang @rasharn_agyemang
Style by Katie Eleanor Grand @kegrand
Sound design and soundscape - A.A.R Studio
#model @ajokdaing @bibiabdulkadir
#hair @cyndiaharvey
#makeup @mirandajoyce
#set @andyhillmanstudio
#Nails Anatole Rainey
Casting @julialangecasting @artistrylondon
Film edit by
Alexander Ingham Brooke @alexanderinghambrooke_
First A/C Camera : @oscaroldershaw
Production @aprilproductionltd
Thank you @virgygiannini @bigskystudios @thedawesproject @leonardpetit
@imagepartnership
IN THESE STRANGE TIMES Vol.3. NONCLASSICAL RELEASES - [LAND] & OTHER HAZARDS
OUT NOW!
Listen to the full compilation HERE —-> https://nonclassical.bandcamp.com/album/i-hope-this-finds-you-well-in-these-strange-times-vol-3
Such a thoughtful release from @nonclsscl who warmly invited artists to submit work made over the past lockdowns. Today is the "support artists on Bandcamp day" as they waive their fee!
You will find my electroacoustic piece [LAND] & OTHER HAZARDS, a recent collab with bass clarinetist extraordinaire @ausiaspotries !!
The piece was commissioned last summer, and enthusiastically supported by @aaronhnahum / @riotensemble / @zeitgeistonlinegallery and Harriet Wybor at @prsfoundation @prsformusic
The track is warmly huddled (a rarity in these times) amongst friends works @reylxn, Soosan Lolavar + other unique voices I ought to get to know better and/or meet! @heloisewerner @dreammmusics @retfrem @larr95 @thegesualdosix @this_machine_kills_fascists_ @dougthomasofficial and more.... Enjoy!
SOMESUCH STORIES ISSUE 5 IS OUT!
Somesuch Stories, an annual publication packed with experiences of culture, nature, sex and identity.
Publication edited by Suze Olbrich and art direction by Lydia Garnett. It includes a series of texts I reworked from a performance I gave on AI personal assistants and the use of female voice 3 years ago with Young Blood Initiative, curated by Candy Choi. These are gorgeously illustrated by Olivia Norris’s paintings.