Upset The
Rhythm presents…
HEXA: FACTORY
PHOTOGRAPHS
(Jamie
Stewart & Lawrence English sonic response to David Lynch’s photography)
Wednesday 15
February
The Forge, 3-7 Delancey St,
Camden, London, NW1 7NL
7pm | £14 | Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/383554
HEXA is a project by Australian composer
and artist Lawrence English and Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart exploring the
physicality of sound and its abilities to infiltrate, abrade and occupy the
body. Premiered at the David Lynch:
Between Two Worlds retrospective at GOMA museum in Brisbane, Australia in
April 2015, HEXA is a sonic response to Lynch’s Factory Photographs, a collection of images Lynch took of disused
factories and the ruins of industry in the USA, Poland, Germany and the UK.
Using the factory photographs as both a literal and metaphoric source, their
performance draws root from the texture of Lynch’s images, the imagined and
actual spaces, and the spectral histories contained within them. The effect is
like “cascading low frequency pulses and
tectonic plates of sound, suspended in cavernous cathedral-like spaces.”
When asked recently about his decades’
long interest in photographing factories in various states of disuse, David
Lynch remarked “I grew up in the
north-west of America where there are no factories at all, just woods and farms.
But my mother was from Brooklyn, so when I was little we used to go there and I
got a taste for a certain kind of architecture and a feeling for machines and
smoke and fear. To me, the ideal factory location has no real nature, except
winter-dead black trees and oil-soaked earth. Time disappears when I'm shooting
in a factory, it's really beautiful.”
HEXA's album is out now on the Room40
label.
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