Ex-Easter Island Head
Charles Hayward: ZigZag + Swirl
Lola De La Mata
Ex-Easter Island Head will be joined on stage by extra special guests Charles Hayward and Lola De La Mata, presenting their own wildly original music as solo artists and joining the group for open-ended explorations of material from the 2024's Norther album.
Join experimental musicians WEȽ∝KER (pronounced ‘WET LOCKER’) and Lola De La Mata for two special performances at Edge Hill Station.
WEȽ∝KER are Manchester duo Guillaume Dujat and Joe Beedles, exploring the outer edges of computer music that is playful and tactile. The sounds presented on their last record ENHANCER evoke a strange warmth, shimmering and stretching with the intuition of acoustic improvisation.
Lola De La Mata is a composer, sound artist and curator based between Liverpool and London. Her recent album Oceans on Azimuth was released to much acclaim, reflecting on years of research and embodied experience on tinnitus and the architecture of our ears. Her live performances explore sonic illusions and incorporate dance and motion, collaborating with artists such as Eve Stainton, Rosie Terry Toogood among others.
Performances start at 8pm
Sounding Here is a platform for experiments in any genre, welcoming all kinds of sound-worlds, curated by Christine Cornwell. We welcome our audience to step into the unknown and witness live art and performance which is alive and kicking!
A solo reworking of a duet presented previously at the Lisson Gallery and IKLECKTIK with performance artist Eve Stainton. Lola will explore the outer edges of the theremin’s electromagnetic fields as a means of pushing against another ‘body’. Slicing through air with the wood of her violin bow, she will generate her own energy and reflections. Sometimes, altering her form in architectural moments of stillness and suspension.
Hosted by the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, experimental Composer Lola de la Mata presents an exhibition of musical sculptures for her Debut Album 'Oceans on Azimuth', alongside special guest Abstract Turntablist, Sound Artist and DJ - Maria Chávez.
Sound will be provided by the wonderous Isa, along with tech support from Eduard....yes- the IKLECTIK dream team!
An Avant-garde Auditory Odyssey Into Tinnitus - Lola’s compositions feature sonic landscapes crafted from throbbing heartbeats and tinnitus phantoms. Translated forms of hearing and listening are explored throughout the project in collaged poems which ricochet amongst field recordings, prepared string instruments, a Claravox theremin, an ear canal shaped gong, and other glass inventions. The project features collaborations with biophysicists A.J.Hudspeth and Francesco Gianoli, and resident musicologist Lana Norris from The Hudspeth Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, NYC.
The night will feature a talk with Jono Heale, Director at ACS (custom musician earplugs) around Tinnitus and Aural Diversity.
+ a 'record your ears' booth, in the hopes to capture spontaneous emissions from the cochlea of attendees.
Ticket price
£13.00 - £16.00*
*Booking fee applies
Ella Blake is a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.
Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity.
As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her.
The Film's composer Lola de la Mata will be taking part in a live Q&A following the screening at FACT.
Fluid Space and Pure O Records present Luce Mawdsley’s ‘Northwest & Nebulous’ album launch, an evening of music with Luce and their band with support from sound artist and composer, Lola De La Mata.
April 5th
Fluid Space
L18, Liverpool
7:30 -10:30
£5-£15
Directed by Robert Morgan
Starring Aisling Franciosi
2024 | 93mins | UK |
Lola de la Mata - Original Score
Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.
The University of Liverpool's Department of Music continue their dedication to International Women’s Day for the fourth year, this time with a spotlight on women in screen music. The 2024 event is in partnership with the Alliance for Women Film Composers.
This lunchtime concert will feature a series of short screenings with music composed by current students, alumni, and guest composers, together with live performances featuring the Upper Voices Choir.
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Interactive talk
2.30-4.30pm
The lunchtime concert will be followed by a free event open to everyone who attended the concert. The talk will focus on women in screen music, highlighting diversity and amplifying voices to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024.
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This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.
STOPMOTION directed by Robert Morgan is release across North America in 385 screens.
Director - Robert Morgan
Screenwriters - Robin King, Robert Morgan
With - Aisling Franciosi, Tom York, Jaz Hutchins, Therica Wildon-Reid
Music Composer - Lola de la Mata
Sound Design - Ben Baird
UK 2023, 93min
Courtesy of - IFC Films
Language - English
Best Director, Fantastic Fest, Austin 2023
Grand Jury Prize, Sitges, 2023
Rosie Middleton is a London-based mezzo-soprano specialising in new music. Working across experimental sounds, opera and performance art, she has worked with hcmf// featured artists Laura Bowler and Riot Ensemble, as well as Phaedra Ensemble, Esin Gunduz and the late Mira Calix. She counts the 2020 Michiko Hirayama Prize for experimental vocal music among her awards.
She brings a collaboration with composer Lola de la Mata (@loladelamata) and designer Kelsey Ann Kasom (@kelseyannkasom) to hcmf//, a new work for voice, electronics, movement and ‘sculptural dress’. Centred around this ‘sculptural dress’, which expands, contracts and shape-shifts, the composition is part of a wider series of semi-autobiographical works addressing how memory is stored in the body. Themes of chronic illness, physical restriction and liberation underline this experimental music-performance art hybrid.
hcmf// shorts takes place on Monday 20 November here in Huddersfield as part of hcmf// 2023.
Collaboration with dancer Rosie Terry Toogood
I will be on theremin, glass sculptural instruments and self made cymbal
An experiential day of performance responding to Devon Turnbull’s ‘HiFi Listening Room Dream No. 1’, curated by Róisín Tapponi
11:00 - 11:30: Listening session with Oliver Leith
11:30 - 12:30: Talk with Es Devlin, hosted by Zoe Whitley
12:30 - 13:00: Collaborative performance by Tsunaina and Maxwell Sterling
13:00 - 13:30: Collaborative performance by Lola de la Mata and Eve Stainton
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/around-sound-tickets-671471889497?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Join us on Friday 23 September 2022 at @iklectikartlab celebrating the talented artists that contributed singles highlighting their relationship with the act of listening ~ for our listening pleasure.
With performances from @damsel.elysium @astridsonne @loladelamata & @soundaroundme_ you don't want to miss out on this 👂🏼✨
Tickets are available via the link https://www.tickettailor.com/events/iklectik/738786
£10.50 Advance / £12 OTD
COLLIDING LINES presents,
K I N E T I C @ I K L E C T I K
Thursday 9 June 2022 | 8pm [7:30pm doors]
Tickets: £8 / £12+book https://buytickets.at/iklectik/692053
Colliding Lines present K I N E T I C, an anthology of new visual poetry and performance. Taking “movement” as its starting point, the collection features ten poems reimagined in print, created collaboratively between writer and designer.
Join us as we launch our baby into the wild, celebrating its emergence with live readings from our featured poets – both in person and remote, via video-link – as well as multimedia live performances and film. The project’s themes are mirrored in a series of new dance pieces we’ll be screening from contemporary dancer Hannah Spencer. We are also excited to present a new moving poem, produced as part of the project by award-winning designer Ting-An Ho.
The anthology is sequel to 2021’s publication H O M E, and features the work of designers Angharad Hengyu Owen, Manita Songserm, Rosaire Appel, Pedro Neves and Pouya Ahmadi.
Published poets include Bibi June, Cleo Henry, Daisy Thurston-Gent, David & Lizzy Turner, Lauren Scharhag, Lola de la Mata, Nikki Marrone, Robin Lamboll, Tina Lesnik, Veronique Homann & Wesley Freeman-Smith.
London based record label, SA Recordings, celebrate their 3rd birthday this year. To celebrate they've pulled together some friends of the label for a night of performances at OTO.
With special performances from @floraytw, @lilbertucci, @btvida, @cncpcn and @loladelamata so you wouldn't want to miss it.
The Body Electric
A programme exploring queer themes by LGBT composers, including new works by Cee Haines (using the ROLI keyboards) Robert Reid Allan (using interview material about gay mentors, modulating text with a TouchKeys keyboard) and Lola de la Mata (combining video, electronics, music and theatre in collaboration with two performance artist/dancers).
Robert Reid Allan – Do you share coming out stories still?
CHAINES – Escape TERF Island
Lola da la Mata – A meditation on unnatural corporeality in three tableaux
Zubin Kanga – Hypnagogia
Luke Nickel – hhiiddeenn vvoorrttiicceess
An evening of performances @studio fluid in Aigburth
+ Aby Fulami //alternative Jazz Soundscape in collaboration w/ choreographer Rosie Terry Toogood
+ Hankbee//Alt Folk & tragically ironic lyrics
+ VAGUS film screening // Collaborative Audio-Visual work by Lola de la Mata and Britta Thie
+ Paintings by Ash Daley
Part of What Shall We Build Here, Artsadmin’s festival of art, climate and community from 8-12 September.
Immersion was a collaboration between Selina Thompson, the People of Tower Hamlets and the Air they Breathe. Over one day, four groups of self-appointed Custodians of Air stood facing the North, South, East and West of Tower Hamlets, playing the sounds of breathing out into the day and night.
Built from a chorus of breath collected in parks and spaces across the borough from local womxn of colour, the sound is a moment of cleansing and defiance, taking a sound we are surrounded by and tuning into its beauty at a time when breathing has never felt so loaded.
September 10th
11am, 2pm, 5pm, 8pm
Free. Audiences can book to attend one, several or all performances.
Performance duration: 20 minutes
Three world premieres by three emerging composers, followed by a Q&A session.
This event has now sold out.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Lola de la Mata presents NULLA 0, a monolith, a sound art project about agency – amplifying voices that are often othered, while sharing narratives gathered through conversations with participants who identify across non-binary, womxn and women (cis/trans) which have typically been omitted from our collective histories.
Chisara Agor has created an installation to explore the philosophical concept of ‘metaxy’ through the idea of being/feeling seen and unseen, how this can transform, and how we can experience this through sound and art.
Anna Pool’s piece examines the transformative power of faith on people and place, both through the impact that faith communities have had on Spitalfields itself, and the personal faith journeys of individuals from East London and beyond.
Produced by Spitalfields Music in partnership with Rich Mix. With support from Help Musicians UK.
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.
Find out more here
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.
Director: Alexander Ingham Brooke
MIUMIU Spring 2021 campaign by Rasharn Agyemang @rasharn_agyemang style by Katie Elanor Grand @kegrand
Soundtrack @loladelamata (Curtain Call)
Sound design and soundscape
A.A.R Studio
#model @ajokdaing @bibiabdulkadir
#hair @cyndiaharvey
#makeup @mirandajoyce
#set @andyhillmanstudio
#Nails Anatole Rainey
Casting @julialangecasting
cinematography and edit by
Alexander Ingham Brooke @alexanderinghambrooke_
First A/C Camera : @oscaroldershaw
Production @aprilproductionltd
Thank you @virgygiannini @bigskystudios @thedawesproject @leonardpetit
@imagepartnership
WATCH HERE
FIRST AIRED SUNDAY 1ST NOV AT 3PM ON @nts_radio WITH @ilfroz (AKA FRANCESCO FUSARO)
A FOCUS ON LIVING COMPOSERS WHO IDENTIFY AS WOMEN (CIS/TRANS), AND OTHER MARGINALISED GENDER IDENTITIES
Includes works by @millennial_perennial @ain.bailey
And Composer X. Lee @01011000___
I selected all living composers while @ilfroz focused on past composers
+ works from mentors who helped me along my sound journey @aishaorazbayeva #jenniferwalshe #soosanlolavar @penultimatepress
Commissioned by City London Festival and Nonclassical
Exploring the idea of ‘ironed time’, studying the façade of screens, exploring ways to disrupt the flatness we all interact with - VAGUS, from the vagus nerve, our human version of a screen saver - considers our migration to online spaces littered with racists, classist, homophobic, transphobic algorithms during our time in lockdown filled with digital delay interactions.
The audio, visual and text are put together using improvisation and experimentation.
Read more about the concept and early stages on Nonclassical’s blog here: https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/engage-1/2020/7/23/lola-delamata-britta-thie
Six contemporary classical composers have been commissioned to create new works as part of a collaborative project between PRS for Music, new music collective the Riot Ensemble and conceptual project, Zeitgeist. BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show with Kate Molleson and Tom Service is premiering the new works, three of which were broadcast last week.
Tune into BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show at 10pm on 22 August to listen to the rest of the new commissions.
To listen back to the previous programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lsz1
NONCLASSICAL releases Volumes 1–3 ‘Outside the Lines’ compilation series brings together some of the new classical music scene's best emerging artists. Discover your new favourites.
Read about the Embalmer here
***NOW SOLD OUT
Nonclassical Associate Composer Lola de la Mata curates this vital evening of women, non-binary and queer artists making work now, bringing together a diverse programme exploring themes surrounding identity, gender and ‘the gaze’.
The night blurs and challenges the notion of a one-directional concert experience, with music, installations and video colliding all across the space. Experimental composer-performers Jennifer Walshe & Neil Luck present their debut performance as a duo, sharing a common interest in the voice and esoteric live performance. Later on, Lola performs her confrontational protest piece I’ll Show YOU My G String.
Introducing the night will be Phoebe Collings-James’ film Mother Tongue, Mother Master which aims to decode the diaspora she has experienced as a mixed-race woman through her West-Indian British roots. Elsewhere, there’s Olivia Norris’s uncanny dance video SISSY FATIGUE exploring fetishised female blondeness, and female rage to the music of Bully Fae Collins.
Lola also presents her work for cello Sway – performed by Cecilia Bignall – which, erm, rubs up against Glitter Dicks, a video work that’s exactly as explicit as it sounds, by queer performance art duo Antonio Branco & Riccardo T.
Please note that this performance contains nudity.
read more here
Tracksuit Trendy is a piece of composition and performance art which intersects various political media threads into a commentary on the binary beauty standards and toxic culture surrounding whiteness, the misogyny erupting from reddit polluting the online community with ridiculous ‘scientific’ claims about the disappearance of the Y chromosome, and the appropriation and rebranding of the working class garment - the tracksuit - which the fashion industry has successfully turned into a luxury item.
VIDEOS AND PHOTOGRAPHS HERE
Lola de la Mata - Composition, Choreography, Film & Costumes
Olivia Norris - Choreography & Performer
Riccardo T - Choreography & Performer
PREMIERED at Post Paradise - February 22nd 2019
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