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25 October 2024
Merkaba Macabre (live AV) plus Blanca Regina & Matthias Kispert, Pierre Bouvier Patron, Boy Lucid + more
The Others
6 Manor Rd
Stoke Newington
London N16 5SA
8pm – 1am | Tickets
Hosted in collaboration with Unpredictable Series, Intensive Ear Unit will feature exploratory electronic sound and vision from an illustrious cast. Expect improvised music, pulsating rhythms, rich textures, swirling melodies, bouncy bangers and immersive visuals.
Merkaba Macabre (live AV) plus Blanca Regina & Matthias Kispert, Pierre Bouvier Patron, Boy Lucid + more
The Others
6 Manor Rd
Stoke Newington
London N16 5SA
8pm – 1am | Tickets
Hosted in collaboration with Unpredictable Series, Intensive Ear Unit will feature exploratory electronic sound and vision from an illustrious cast. Expect improvised music, pulsating rhythms, rich textures, swirling melodies, bouncy bangers and immersive visuals.
15 – 19 October 2024
A Monster with its Mouth Agape – Installation at Family Film Project 13. Porto, Portugal
A Monster with its Mouth Agape is an installation inspired by the profound insights of the late Yoshito Ohno as an interpretation on the metamorphic states of Butoh, radiating from monochromatic intensity to multihued abstraction, with a soundtrack that reverberates the haunting soundscapes from the chaotic post-war climate of Japan. The work features a rare audio recording of Ohno, with each line of poetic movement expressed as visual metaphor. As Yoshito’s influence continues to ripple into the present, these subversive forms of dance embody a sense of timelessness, deeply rooted in Japanese archaic tradition, folklore, and mythology.
Installation in collaboration with Hugo Mesquita
Visual design in collaboration with Vincent Rang
Sound design by Howlround & Merkaba Macabre
Tickets via Family Film Project
A Monster with its Mouth Agape is an installation inspired by the profound insights of the late Yoshito Ohno as an interpretation on the metamorphic states of Butoh, radiating from monochromatic intensity to multihued abstraction, with a soundtrack that reverberates the haunting soundscapes from the chaotic post-war climate of Japan. The work features a rare audio recording of Ohno, with each line of poetic movement expressed as visual metaphor. As Yoshito’s influence continues to ripple into the present, these subversive forms of dance embody a sense of timelessness, deeply rooted in Japanese archaic tradition, folklore, and mythology.
Installation in collaboration with Hugo Mesquita
Visual design in collaboration with Vincent Rang
Sound design by Howlround & Merkaba Macabre
Tickets via Family Film Project
27 September 2024
XOLO feat. Merkaba Macabre, Georgina Brett, SzlO Egle Saka plus more (Tickets via Resident Advisor)
7pm–11pm, The Bath House, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick. London E9 5JH
This event brings together musicians and visual artists to explore the merging of human presence with digital processes. In a world shaped by technology, adding a bit of flesh is irresistable. Using body scans as visual material, the performance reflects on the innate pull to reintroduce the human form into digital spaces. It examines how technology, while driving us into new territories, still calls for traces of the physical—an ever-present reminder that we are human. This evening is an interrogation on the increasingly intertwined relationship between human beings and the tools we create, offering a space to consider how technology both shapes and is shaped by us.
XOLO feat. Merkaba Macabre, Georgina Brett, SzlO Egle Saka plus more (Tickets via Resident Advisor)
7pm–11pm, The Bath House, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick. London E9 5JH
This event brings together musicians and visual artists to explore the merging of human presence with digital processes. In a world shaped by technology, adding a bit of flesh is irresistable. Using body scans as visual material, the performance reflects on the innate pull to reintroduce the human form into digital spaces. It examines how technology, while driving us into new territories, still calls for traces of the physical—an ever-present reminder that we are human. This evening is an interrogation on the increasingly intertwined relationship between human beings and the tools we create, offering a space to consider how technology both shapes and is shaped by us.
9th August – 14th September 2024
Dumping Ground presents thirteen artists whose practices create fictions unnervingly close to our reality, through the recycling of unwanted material, both physical and psychological. The exhibition has been turned into an immersive space: the windows have been blocked off, covered in wads of cotton, and dim lighting coats the surfaces. Within, a graveyard of discarded matter has become a harvest for fertile life and mutation: objects itch to redefine themselves. Images and objects are regurgitated, fused and multiplied. Walls are fractured, a bone is dislocated, and in its place grows something else, some kind of fungus undiagnosed.
Hypha HQ, Unit 3, Euston Tower
286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP
Dumping Ground presents thirteen artists whose practices create fictions unnervingly close to our reality, through the recycling of unwanted material, both physical and psychological. The exhibition has been turned into an immersive space: the windows have been blocked off, covered in wads of cotton, and dim lighting coats the surfaces. Within, a graveyard of discarded matter has become a harvest for fertile life and mutation: objects itch to redefine themselves. Images and objects are regurgitated, fused and multiplied. Walls are fractured, a bone is dislocated, and in its place grows something else, some kind of fungus undiagnosed.
Hypha HQ, Unit 3, Euston Tower
286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP
Artwork designed by Steven McInerney
14 July 2024
Psyché Tropes (DJ set) 17:30pm – 18:30pm
After three years of iconic gatherings, the 4th edition of IKLECTIKA is taking on a NOMADIK form and will be held at the Colour Factory, Hackney Wick.
Things will be kicking off at the venue's outdoor area from 12pm. Come meet us at the merch stalls. You can purchase a copy of the new LP by Sculpture directly from us before its released, or pre-order this weekend from the Psyché Tropes or LTR Records website for a discount before we launch it on bandcamp.
Colour Factory
8 Queen's Yard
London E9 5EN
Tickets £15 via Dice
Artwork by Egle Saka
Psyché Tropes (DJ set) 17:30pm – 18:30pm
After three years of iconic gatherings, the 4th edition of IKLECTIKA is taking on a NOMADIK form and will be held at the Colour Factory, Hackney Wick.
Things will be kicking off at the venue's outdoor area from 12pm. Come meet us at the merch stalls. You can purchase a copy of the new LP by Sculpture directly from us before its released, or pre-order this weekend from the Psyché Tropes or LTR Records website for a discount before we launch it on bandcamp.
Colour Factory
8 Queen's Yard
London E9 5EN
Tickets £15 via Dice
Artwork by Egle Saka
2 April 2024
Tuesdays Post present Live Progressive Ambient.
A fully immersive event with 3 composers writing integrated spatial audio pieces for a unique and state-of-the-art space hosted by Southby Productions. The technology for dissemination around the venue is designed and built by D&B Audiotechnik.
Tickets £20 via Resident Advisor
Address: All Is Joy
75 Dean Street
Soho. London
Doors: 7:30pm
Artwork designed by Steven McInerney and Georgina Brett
Tuesdays Post present Live Progressive Ambient.
A fully immersive event with 3 composers writing integrated spatial audio pieces for a unique and state-of-the-art space hosted by Southby Productions. The technology for dissemination around the venue is designed and built by D&B Audiotechnik.
Tickets £20 via Resident Advisor
Address: All Is Joy
75 Dean Street
Soho. London
Doors: 7:30pm
Artwork designed by Steven McInerney and Georgina Brett
12 January 2024
London-based trio Howlround, Merkaba Macabre and Pascal Savy take over IKLECTIK as part of the 2024 Closing Events on Friday 12th January. The group will present an ongoing audiovisual work originally commissioned for the BONE x IKLECTIK Festival in July 2023 at Fabra I Coats, Barcelona.
This collaboration incorporates fragments of scanned 16mm and sound intricately woven together and manipulated live by Merkaba Macabre. These pulses of colour and sound are the natural dialectic in a parsed generative response, transmuted thru Pascal Savy’s ritual noise and processed by Howlround’s analogue tape loops to form a haunting and hallucinatory narrative that is both delicate and extreme.
Tickets £13 via DICE
IKLECTIK. Old Paradise Yard. Doors: 8pm
London-based trio Howlround, Merkaba Macabre and Pascal Savy take over IKLECTIK as part of the 2024 Closing Events on Friday 12th January. The group will present an ongoing audiovisual work originally commissioned for the BONE x IKLECTIK Festival in July 2023 at Fabra I Coats, Barcelona.
This collaboration incorporates fragments of scanned 16mm and sound intricately woven together and manipulated live by Merkaba Macabre. These pulses of colour and sound are the natural dialectic in a parsed generative response, transmuted thru Pascal Savy’s ritual noise and processed by Howlround’s analogue tape loops to form a haunting and hallucinatory narrative that is both delicate and extreme.
Tickets £13 via DICE
IKLECTIK. Old Paradise Yard. Doors: 8pm
17 December 2023
Merkaba Macabre [live AV] at IKLECTIK for NOISEMAS III. All ticket proceeds will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Over 30 artists will each perform short back-to-back live sets throughout the day from 12pm until midnight.
Tickets £20 via DICE
IKLECTIK
Old Paradise Yard
London
Doors: 8pm
Merkaba Macabre [live AV] at IKLECTIK for NOISEMAS III. All ticket proceeds will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Over 30 artists will each perform short back-to-back live sets throughout the day from 12pm until midnight.
Tickets £20 via DICE
IKLECTIK
Old Paradise Yard
London
Doors: 8pm
9 December 2023
Apparent Motion
Merkaba Macabre [Live AV] for Hardcore Chillout’s Apparent Motion at a secret venue in Tottenham, London alongside Erik Winterstam (Live), Sayaka Botanic (DJ), Fhionbarra (DJ)
Venue to be announced on the day. Tickets via Eventbrite
Apparent Motion
Merkaba Macabre [Live AV] for Hardcore Chillout’s Apparent Motion at a secret venue in Tottenham, London alongside Erik Winterstam (Live), Sayaka Botanic (DJ), Fhionbarra (DJ)
Venue to be announced on the day. Tickets via Eventbrite
12 November 2023
Bodies of Light ensue from Darkness
Howlround and Merkaba Macabre will perform a live soundtrack to Steven McInerney’s Bodies of Light ensue from Darkness at IKLECTIK for the Rebellious Bodies International Butoh Festival Bodies of Light ensue from Darkness is an expanded 16mm film inspired by the profound insights of Yoshito Ohno.
The film is an interpretation of the morphic states of Butoh, born out of the chaotic post-war climate of Japan, radiating from monochromatic intensity to multihued abstraction with a soundtrack that resonates with the haunting soundscapes of early 1960s Butoh.
Supported by Dance Archival Network
Tickets via DICE IKLECTIK, London. Doors 7pm
The film is an interpretation of the morphic states of Butoh, born out of the chaotic post-war climate of Japan, radiating from monochromatic intensity to multihued abstraction with a soundtrack that resonates with the haunting soundscapes of early 1960s Butoh.
Supported by Dance Archival Network
Tickets via DICE IKLECTIK, London. Doors 7pm
14 July 2023
London-based trio Howlround, Merkaba Macabre and Pascal Savy present a brand new audiovisual work at the BONE x IKLECTIK Festival on 14 July at Fabra I Coats, Barcelona.
This collaboration incorporates fragments of scanned 16mm and sound intricately woven together and manipulated live by Merkaba Macabre. These pulses of colour and sound are the natural dialectic in a parsed generative response, transmuted thru Pascal Savy’s ritual noise and processed by Howlround’s analogue tape loops to form a haunting and hallucinatory narrative that is both delicate and extreme.
Address: Fabra I Coats, Barcelona. Doors: Noon
London-based trio Howlround, Merkaba Macabre and Pascal Savy present a brand new audiovisual work at the BONE x IKLECTIK Festival on 14 July at Fabra I Coats, Barcelona.
This collaboration incorporates fragments of scanned 16mm and sound intricately woven together and manipulated live by Merkaba Macabre. These pulses of colour and sound are the natural dialectic in a parsed generative response, transmuted thru Pascal Savy’s ritual noise and processed by Howlround’s analogue tape loops to form a haunting and hallucinatory narrative that is both delicate and extreme.
Address: Fabra I Coats, Barcelona. Doors: Noon
8 July 2023
Psyché Tropes DJ Set 3pm on Saturday 8 July at IKLECTIKA, Experimental Music and Book Fair. Psyché Tropes will also have a stall selling merch all weekend.
8-9 July, IKLECTIKA 2023 welcomes publishers, writers, musicians, record labels, magazines and artists to hold stalls alongside a curated programme of live music, panel discussions, DJs and workshops
IKLECTIK
Old Paradise Yard
London
Psyché Tropes DJ Set 3pm on Saturday 8 July at IKLECTIKA, Experimental Music and Book Fair. Psyché Tropes will also have a stall selling merch all weekend.
8-9 July, IKLECTIKA 2023 welcomes publishers, writers, musicians, record labels, magazines and artists to hold stalls alongside a curated programme of live music, panel discussions, DJs and workshops
IKLECTIK
Old Paradise Yard
London
12 – 14 May 2023
Simulated Diegesis is a site-specific installation created for the Rising to Float exhibition at Greatorex Street gallery in London. The installation consists of seven independent audio channels and light projection spanning a 40-meter-long corridor. Synthetic and pre-recorded sounds from the site were concealed with hidden speakers to challenge the public’s perception, creating a simulated diegetic experience for each visitor, blending seamlessly with the natural sounds of the space to create a disorienting, immersive experience.
Installation by Steven McInerney
Greatorex Street Gallery, 12-14 May, 2023. London (UK) 2023
Simulated Diegesis is a site-specific installation created for the Rising to Float exhibition at Greatorex Street gallery in London. The installation consists of seven independent audio channels and light projection spanning a 40-meter-long corridor. Synthetic and pre-recorded sounds from the site were concealed with hidden speakers to challenge the public’s perception, creating a simulated diegetic experience for each visitor, blending seamlessly with the natural sounds of the space to create a disorienting, immersive experience.
Installation by Steven McInerney
Greatorex Street Gallery, 12-14 May, 2023. London (UK) 2023
24 – 26 March 2023
Chromophobia a new audiovisual project that explores colour-to-sound synthesis for a three-day residency at Project DIVFUSE. Building upon the artist’s previous research in analogue light-based composition, Merkaba Macabre investigates this field in a purely digital process resulting in a triptych audiovisual expanse.
24 March 2023 Friday 6-8:30pm: Merkaba Macabre [live] + xname [DJ]
25 March Saturday 6-8:30pm: Merkaba Macabre [live] + Faery [DJ]
26 March Sunday 3-7pm: Merkaba Macabre w/ Billy Pleasant [live] + Eight Fold Way [DJ]
Unit 14 Tilia Rd, Lower Clapton, London E5 8JB
Free entry. [[Photosensitive Warning]]
Chromophobia a new audiovisual project that explores colour-to-sound synthesis for a three-day residency at Project DIVFUSE. Building upon the artist’s previous research in analogue light-based composition, Merkaba Macabre investigates this field in a purely digital process resulting in a triptych audiovisual expanse.
24 March 2023 Friday 6-8:30pm: Merkaba Macabre [live] + xname [DJ]
25 March Saturday 6-8:30pm: Merkaba Macabre [live] + Faery [DJ]
26 March Sunday 3-7pm: Merkaba Macabre w/ Billy Pleasant [live] + Eight Fold Way [DJ]
Unit 14 Tilia Rd, Lower Clapton, London E5 8JB
Free entry. [[Photosensitive Warning]]
12 March 2023
The Listening Body
We are excited to announce another addition of The Listening Body, a collaborative event at IKLECTIK exploring the physicality of sound in a one-hour experience designed by Pascal Savy (live electronics) and Flying Disks, a new project involving gongs and other idiophones performed by Merkaba Macabre & Hems, processed and spatialised live by Christian Duka
Each performance will make full use of the 16.4 speakers system spread across the walls and ceiling at IKLECTIK.
The performance will be repeated three times across the day, each for a group of 20 participants.
Times and tickets via Amoenus
The Listening Body
We are excited to announce another addition of The Listening Body, a collaborative event at IKLECTIK exploring the physicality of sound in a one-hour experience designed by Pascal Savy (live electronics) and Flying Disks, a new project involving gongs and other idiophones performed by Merkaba Macabre & Hems, processed and spatialised live by Christian Duka
Each performance will make full use of the 16.4 speakers system spread across the walls and ceiling at IKLECTIK.
The performance will be repeated three times across the day, each for a group of 20 participants.
Times and tickets via Amoenus
20 January 2023
Psyché Tropes x IKLECTIK – Concert for Crisis Fundraising in aid of CRISIS UK
Doors: 7:30pm
Tickets: £12.50 Advance / £15 OTD
tickets via DICE
Programme:
CLON x Ana Quiroga (live AV)
Pascal Savy & Hanzo Schwarz (Live AV)
Post Coma (Live)
Sybil (DJ)
Doors: 7:30pm
Tickets: £12.50 Advance / £15 OTD
tickets via DICE
Programme:
CLON x Ana Quiroga (live AV)
Pascal Savy & Hanzo Schwarz (Live AV)
Post Coma (Live)
Sybil (DJ)
15 – 18th December 2022
Ancient Vessels
A group exhibition of twelve artists working in sculpture, sound, moving image and performance. Folklore merges with futuristic worlds, and the past merges with the future, as the show juxtaposes artists who have a shared interest in researching historical material, and a yearning to locate meaning by recovering a lost knowledge from history. Burrow into the muddy earth; hidden codes, symbols, annexes and doors of meaning reveal themselves; they invite the artist to act as a vessel to excavate, tune and communicate its knowledge, helping us to better understand the self, others and the earth.
More infomation via APT Gallery
Ancient Vessels
A group exhibition of twelve artists working in sculpture, sound, moving image and performance. Folklore merges with futuristic worlds, and the past merges with the future, as the show juxtaposes artists who have a shared interest in researching historical material, and a yearning to locate meaning by recovering a lost knowledge from history. Burrow into the muddy earth; hidden codes, symbols, annexes and doors of meaning reveal themselves; they invite the artist to act as a vessel to excavate, tune and communicate its knowledge, helping us to better understand the self, others and the earth.
More infomation via APT Gallery
11 December 2022
The Listening Body
We are excited to announce The Listening Body, a collaborative event at IKLECTIK exploring the physicality of sound in a one-hour experience designed by Pascal Savy (live electronics) and Flying Disks, a new project involving gongs and other idiophones performed by Merkaba Macabre & Hems, processed and spatialised live by Christian Duka
Each performance will make full use of the 16.4 speakers system spread across the walls and ceiling at IKLECTIK.
The performance will be repeated three times across the day, each for a group of 20 participants.
Times and tickets via Amoenus
The Listening Body
We are excited to announce The Listening Body, a collaborative event at IKLECTIK exploring the physicality of sound in a one-hour experience designed by Pascal Savy (live electronics) and Flying Disks, a new project involving gongs and other idiophones performed by Merkaba Macabre & Hems, processed and spatialised live by Christian Duka
Each performance will make full use of the 16.4 speakers system spread across the walls and ceiling at IKLECTIK.
The performance will be repeated three times across the day, each for a group of 20 participants.
Times and tickets via Amoenus
11 June 2022
On Saturday 11th Merkaba Macabre will premiere Trilateral Descent, a new expanded film for 16mm, digital projection and live electronics at IKLECTIK for the Titrate Label Launch.
Trilateral Descent is an expanded 20-minute film combining the illusory motion of a 16mm triptych with digital projection and live sound. The film explores what is often described to as ‘religious conditioning’, breaking these illusions down into a hypnotic physiological experience as the brain is forced to reconcile sight and sound. It intends to provoke contradictory states of euphoria and horror to reveal the depths of the unconscious.The screen is prepared with three photodiode sensors, that respond to the phasing of light. This feedback system triggers custom analogue hardware in real-time and is performed as a live soundtrack.
On Saturday 11th Merkaba Macabre will premiere Trilateral Descent, a new expanded film for 16mm, digital projection and live electronics at IKLECTIK for the Titrate Label Launch.
Trilateral Descent is an expanded 20-minute film combining the illusory motion of a 16mm triptych with digital projection and live sound. The film explores what is often described to as ‘religious conditioning’, breaking these illusions down into a hypnotic physiological experience as the brain is forced to reconcile sight and sound. It intends to provoke contradictory states of euphoria and horror to reveal the depths of the unconscious.The screen is prepared with three photodiode sensors, that respond to the phasing of light. This feedback system triggers custom analogue hardware in real-time and is performed as a live soundtrack.
25 February 2022
Merkaba Macabre presents Decomposition #6
Decomposition is an ever-evolving, camera-less audiovisual performance designed for a single 16mm projector featuring optical sound and a live modular soundtrack. This is a research project into degradation in which 16mm color negative film undergoes a series of organic and chemical decomposition techniques. A color print is then created from the resulting material. During projection, the disrupted film emulsion's sound output is routed through the a input of a modular synthesizer, effectively converting the film print into controlled voltage.
The contours, shapes, and colors of the decomposed celluloid are dynamically translated into live sound synthesis and manipulated in real-time. Each live performance represents a recycled, re-decomposed iteration of itself, as the film print and subsequent internegatives undergo the same decomposition process and are reprinted — resulting in the complete destruction of the past.
Merkaba Macabre presents Decomposition #6
Decomposition is an ever-evolving, camera-less audiovisual performance designed for a single 16mm projector featuring optical sound and a live modular soundtrack. This is a research project into degradation in which 16mm color negative film undergoes a series of organic and chemical decomposition techniques. A color print is then created from the resulting material. During projection, the disrupted film emulsion's sound output is routed through the a input of a modular synthesizer, effectively converting the film print into controlled voltage.
The contours, shapes, and colors of the decomposed celluloid are dynamically translated into live sound synthesis and manipulated in real-time. Each live performance represents a recycled, re-decomposed iteration of itself, as the film print and subsequent internegatives undergo the same decomposition process and are reprinted — resulting in the complete destruction of the past.
21 January 2022
Tape Letters from the Waiting Room Album Launch
An evening of audiovisual performances at IKLECTIK, premiering new collaborations and sonic experiments in moving image and storytelling with all ticket sales donated to national homeless charity, Crisis.
We are pleased to welcome Glasow-based artist Mark Vernon for the official launch of his new LP for the award-winning film ‘Tape Letters from the Waiting Room’ directed by Steven McInerney, along with live performances by Howlround, IOME, Pascal Savy and Hems (DJ set).
Tape Letters from the Waiting Room Album Launch
An evening of audiovisual performances at IKLECTIK, premiering new collaborations and sonic experiments in moving image and storytelling with all ticket sales donated to national homeless charity, Crisis.
We are pleased to welcome Glasow-based artist Mark Vernon for the official launch of his new LP for the award-winning film ‘Tape Letters from the Waiting Room’ directed by Steven McInerney, along with live performances by Howlround, IOME, Pascal Savy and Hems (DJ set).
27 November 2021
In Our Mind’s Eye by Ben Kreukniet and Steven McInerney will screen at the 7th Edition of Punto y Raya as part of their 2021 official Selection programme
In Our Mind’s Eye is a visual music project utilising 16mm, digital projection, and live electronics to explore the emergent phenomenon of trichromatic perception. Originally concieved as an installation by Ben Kreukniet with sound design by Kreukniet and McInerney, the project has evolved into various incantations from experimenal film, to expanded cinema.
Festival Programme here
Visit the film page here
In Our Mind’s Eye is a visual music project utilising 16mm, digital projection, and live electronics to explore the emergent phenomenon of trichromatic perception. Originally concieved as an installation by Ben Kreukniet with sound design by Kreukniet and McInerney, the project has evolved into various incantations from experimenal film, to expanded cinema.
Festival Programme here
Visit the film page here
25 September 2021
In Our Mind’s Eye, a film by & Ben Kreukniet & Steven McInerney will screen at BFI Southbank on Saturday 25 September as part of the Motion Suspended programme for London Short Film Festival
In Our Mind’s Eye is a visual music project utilising 16mm, digital projection, and live electronics to explore the emergent phenomenon of trichromatic perception. Originally concieved as an installation by Ben Kreukniet with sound design by Kreukniet and McInerney, the project has evolved into various incantations from experimenal film, to expanded cinema.
In Our Mind’s Eye is a visual music project utilising 16mm, digital projection, and live electronics to explore the emergent phenomenon of trichromatic perception. Originally concieved as an installation by Ben Kreukniet with sound design by Kreukniet and McInerney, the project has evolved into various incantations from experimenal film, to expanded cinema.
Saturday 25 September 19:30-22:00
Outdoor screening. Theatre Avenue, Southbank
Visit the film page here
Outdoor screening. Theatre Avenue, Southbank
Visit the film page here
11 September 2021
In Our Mind’s Eye, a film by & Ben Kreukniet & Steven McInerney will screen at at B-Movie Cinema for Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg on 11 September.
In Our Mind’s Eye is a visual music project utilising 16mm, digital projection, and live electronics to explore the emergent phenomenon of trichromatic perception. Originally concieved as an installation by Ben Kreukniet with sound design by Kreukniet and McInerney, the project has evolved into various incantations from experimenal film, to expanded cinema.
In Our Mind’s Eye is a visual music project utilising 16mm, digital projection, and live electronics to explore the emergent phenomenon of trichromatic perception. Originally concieved as an installation by Ben Kreukniet with sound design by Kreukniet and McInerney, the project has evolved into various incantations from experimenal film, to expanded cinema.
Visit the film page here
18 July 2021
Psyché Tropes DJ set on Sunday 18 July, 3:30pm at the IKLECTIKA experimental music fair along with a bunch of other great labels, artists and publishers.
IKLECTIKA bring together a set of pioneering London-based record labels which they have closely collaboted with over the years on the weekend of 17th and 18th of July.
IKLECTIKA bring together a set of pioneering London-based record labels which they have closely collaboted with over the years on the weekend of 17th and 18th of July.
9 April 2021
Tape Letters from the Waiting Room directed by Steven McInerney, will screen at at the 16th Mostra Internacional de Cinema Etnográfico in Spain as part of their official selection.
An existential drama exploring the universal themes of death and rebirth. Tape Letters from the Waiting Room is an experiment in film archaeology and magnetic memory as it navigates past life experiences. Shifting in succession from the mundane to the metaphysical, the film is composed of extant 16mm found footage from the past century. An original soundtrack by Mark Vernon encompasses a rich collection of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, found sounds and other lost voices.
An existential drama exploring the universal themes of death and rebirth. Tape Letters from the Waiting Room is an experiment in film archaeology and magnetic memory as it navigates past life experiences. Shifting in succession from the mundane to the metaphysical, the film is composed of extant 16mm found footage from the past century. An original soundtrack by Mark Vernon encompasses a rich collection of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, found sounds and other lost voices.
15 December 2020
Tape Letters from the Waiting Room directed by Steven McInerney, will screen at ULTRACINEMA10 Festival de Cine Experimental y de Found Footage, Mexico as part of their official selection.
Reapropiación
Programa 2
15 December, 2pm
22 December, 8pm
Reapropiación
Programa 2
15 December, 2pm
22 December, 8pm
1 December 2020
Tape Letters from the Waiting Room directed by Steven McInerney, will screen at PROCESO DE ERROR 7th Festival Internacional De Video Experimental, Chile as part of their official selection.
An existential drama exploring the universal themes of death and rebirth. Tape Letters from the Waiting Room is an experiment in film archaeology and magnetic memory as it navigates past life experiences. Shifting in succession from the mundane to the metaphysical, the film is composed of extant 16mm found footage from the past century. An original soundtrack by Mark Vernon encompasses a rich collection of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, found sounds and other lost voices.
An existential drama exploring the universal themes of death and rebirth. Tape Letters from the Waiting Room is an experiment in film archaeology and magnetic memory as it navigates past life experiences. Shifting in succession from the mundane to the metaphysical, the film is composed of extant 16mm found footage from the past century. An original soundtrack by Mark Vernon encompasses a rich collection of domestic tape recordings; audio letters, dictated notes, found sounds and other lost voices.
18 April 2020
Psyché Tropes Broadcast #2
9pm, 18 April 2020, IKLECTIK [off-site]
Psyché Tropes Broadcast #2 is an exclusive live stream for IKLECTIK [off-site] with a 1hr film programme of unreleased 16mm experiments, nature films, video synthesis and cosmological cinema followed by a virtual after-party feat. Psyché Tropes DJs from 9pm (GMT+1) until late
Visit the radio page here
25 January 2020
Howlround & Merkabre perform at Cafe OTO supporting Mecánica Popular. New wave tape music from 1980's Madrid. Presented by Baba Yaga’s Hut.
More info and tickets here
29 November 2019
Psyché Tropes presents Projected Music. A 5-inch Zoetropic Release Party. 29 November at The Old Baths in Hackney Wick with live performances by Sculpture, Janek Schaefer and Mariam Rezaei, plus an ensemble of 26 turntables for 26 locked grooves will improvise throughout the intervals.
7pm, The Old Baths
The turntable ensemble will include the following artists (in alphabetical order): A’Bear, Arran Bolders, Ben Rodgers, Billy Pleasant, Bjorn Hatleskog, Blanca Regina, Chloe Frieda, Christopher Thomas Allen, Dan Hayhurst, Daniel WJ MacKenzie, DJ Food, Graham Dunning, Hems, Horton Jupiter, Janek Schaefer, Korridoor, Lia Mice, Mariam Rezaei, Merkaba Macabre, Odd Lust, Pierre Bouvier Patron, Rado Bogasch, Reuben Sutherland, Robin The Fog, Spatial, Tom Richards
More info via Resident Advisor
15 November 2019
A Creak In Time will screen as part of the Official Selection (In Competition) at Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival including a Q&A with director Steven McInerney.
Update: Winner of the Frist Experiment category
A Creak In Time will screen as part of the Official Selection (In Competition) at Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival including a Q&A with director Steven McInerney.
Update: Winner of the Frist Experiment category
24 October 2019
The Engine Room and IKLECTIK present: HOWLROUND / MERKABA MACABRE / HANZO + XNAME
8pm | £8 adv / £10 otd | More info and tickets here
Having previously collaborated on the award-winning film A Creak In Time, 2019 saw the duo of sound artist Robin The Fog and film maker Steven McInerney working together musically for the first time, creating pulsing rhythmic tracks from the no-input kick, crunch and splutter of Howlround’s vintage tape machines, fusing them with the squelch and squiggle of McInerney’s expansive modular synth. The results, debuted at a military complex in deepest Wiltshire as part of The Delaware Road Festival went down an absolute storm, like a million volt polychromatic Radiophonic Rave. Tonight the duo bring this performance along with visual accompaniment from the genius that is Hanzo back to their home town to put IKLECTIK’s recently beefed-up PA system through its paces.
The Engine Room and IKLECTIK present: HOWLROUND / MERKABA MACABRE / HANZO + XNAME
8pm | £8 adv / £10 otd | More info and tickets here
Having previously collaborated on the award-winning film A Creak In Time, 2019 saw the duo of sound artist Robin The Fog and film maker Steven McInerney working together musically for the first time, creating pulsing rhythmic tracks from the no-input kick, crunch and splutter of Howlround’s vintage tape machines, fusing them with the squelch and squiggle of McInerney’s expansive modular synth. The results, debuted at a military complex in deepest Wiltshire as part of The Delaware Road Festival went down an absolute storm, like a million volt polychromatic Radiophonic Rave. Tonight the duo bring this performance along with visual accompaniment from the genius that is Hanzo back to their home town to put IKLECTIK’s recently beefed-up PA system through its paces.
28 June 2019
A Creak In Time will screen at Fest Anca International Animation Festival in Zilina, Slovakia with an introduction with director Steven McInerney, followed by his other films A Creak Retimed plus a 2K digital scan of Decomposition.
11pm, New Synagogue. Friday 28 June
A Creak In Time will screen at Fest Anca International Animation Festival in Zilina, Slovakia with an introduction with director Steven McInerney, followed by his other films A Creak Retimed plus a 2K digital scan of Decomposition.
11pm, New Synagogue. Friday 28 June
7 June 2018
A Creak In Time will screen twice including a Q&A with director Steven McInerney as part of the Official Selection at 34. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg.
07.06.18 - 17:30 - Zeise 2
08.06.18 - 17:30 - B-Movie
A Creak In Time will screen twice including a Q&A with director Steven McInerney as part of the Official Selection at 34. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg.
07.06.18 - 17:30 - Zeise 2
08.06.18 - 17:30 - B-Movie
10 May 2018
A Creak In Time directed by Steven McInerney will screen in concert with a live soundtrack by Howlround at the 3rd edition of the London audiovisual festival SPLICE alongside performances by Harmergeddon and Graham Dunning.
More info via the Splice Festival website
A Creak In Time directed by Steven McInerney will screen in concert with a live soundtrack by Howlround at the 3rd edition of the London audiovisual festival SPLICE alongside performances by Harmergeddon and Graham Dunning.
More info via the Splice Festival website
22 April 2018
Reminiscent of Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten (1977), A Creak in Time by Steven Mclnerney is a meditation on the ever-expanding fractal universe with recurring themes of transformation and altered perception, switching scale from microscopic topography to the vast distances of the cosmos. The film will screen as part of the Flatpack Official Selection, in concert, with its live soundtrack performed by Howlround.
Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham. 14:30 – 15:00
Tickets and info here
Reminiscent of Charles and Ray Eames' Powers of Ten (1977), A Creak in Time by Steven Mclnerney is a meditation on the ever-expanding fractal universe with recurring themes of transformation and altered perception, switching scale from microscopic topography to the vast distances of the cosmos. The film will screen as part of the Flatpack Official Selection, in concert, with its live soundtrack performed by Howlround.
Centrala, Minerva Works, Birmingham. 14:30 – 15:00
Tickets and info here
25 February 2018
A Creak In Time will have its European premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam with Q&A by director Steven McInerney.
A Creak In Time is a 27-minute meditation on the ever-expanding fractal universe with recurring themes of transformation and altered perception, switching scale from microscopic topography to the vast distances of the cosmos.Presented in two parts, the first exploring the macro, the nature of physicality and formation on a celestial level, with the latter, the micro, a world thriving with lifeforms, continuously expanding and in complete symbiosis. The film's soundtrack by Howlround has been composed entirely from creaking objects and manipulated on magnetic tape machines. Released in 2017 as a vinyl LP on Psyché Tropes.
A Creak In Time will have its European premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam with Q&A by director Steven McInerney.
A Creak In Time is a 27-minute meditation on the ever-expanding fractal universe with recurring themes of transformation and altered perception, switching scale from microscopic topography to the vast distances of the cosmos.Presented in two parts, the first exploring the macro, the nature of physicality and formation on a celestial level, with the latter, the micro, a world thriving with lifeforms, continuously expanding and in complete symbiosis. The film's soundtrack by Howlround has been composed entirely from creaking objects and manipulated on magnetic tape machines. Released in 2017 as a vinyl LP on Psyché Tropes.