Apiary Sessions x SONICA Festival

Apiary Studios, MoTA Museum & SHAPE present:

Apiary Sessions x SONICA Festival
6 March from 8pm

LIVE
Leafcutter John
Karen Gwyer
Marco Donnarumma (Shape)

INSTALLATIONS
Dental Metal - Martin Bricelj Baraga & Spatial
(Shape)
Phenakistomixer 2.0 - Vesna Krebs

DJs
Andy Turner (Plaid)
Spatial
Gon

Apiary & SONICA present an exclusive mix of audiovisual performances, kinetic art installations and electronic acts by outstanding sound and media artists from London, Ljubljana and the newly established SHAPE Platform.

SONICA – Festival of Transitory Art is conceived as a showcase of MoTA’s yearly program. It is an experimental festival that questions the ways of representation, exhibition formats, crossing borders between digital and analog, object and performance. Each edition of SONICA brings a display of audio-visual performances, interactive installations, lectures, digital workshops, projections, clubbing nights and public urban installations.

LEAFCUTTER JOHN needs little introduction with 3 albums on Planet Mu and an album on Staubgold under his belt. The last Planet Mu record ‘A Housebound Spirit’ won an Honorary Mention at the Ars Electronica Awards, and was featured in The Wire Magazine’s Top 50 records. John is an avid experimentalist and collaborator, equally comfortable engineering his own software/hardware interfaces as working with Mercury Music prize nominated group Polar Bear.

KAREN GWYER is a US-born Londoner with a small bunch of divine releases to her name on both Opal Tapes and No Pain In Pop. Gwyer casually summons the feeling of a warmer, more futuristic Popol Vuh, other comparisons including Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, Cabaret Voltaire, Cluster or even an instrumental, more rhythmic Fever Ray. Her recent New Roof EP on No Pain In Pop sold out almost immediately and she’s in growing demand all over Europe, sharing stages with Julia Holter, Tim Hecker, Ben Frost and more.

MARCO DONNARUMMA is a performer, sound artist, musician and writer. He has played interactive music by amplifying sounds from his body, has induced visitors in altered states of self-perception by feeding sounds from their bodies back to their skulls and bones, has immersed audiences in multichannel sound and video produced by the strain of his muscles while he pulled 50kg stones, and has physicalised digital viruses in the body.
Ominous is a sculpture of incarnated sound.

DENTAL METAL is Martin Bricelj Baraga’s new collaboration with London based producer SPATIAL that uses simple objects such as dental brushes and piezo mics to create a monumental homage to the dark ambient music. The performance at Apiary Sessions will be the outcome of residency exchange conducted in Ljubljana & London.

PHENAKISTOMIXER 2.0 Phenakistoscope was an early animation device that used a spinning disk of sequential images and the persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion. Version 2 of Phenakistomixer project takes the turntable video-mixing idea further by introduction of on-plate layering with transparent foils, presented by Vesna Krebs, a new media artist, experimentalist, and researcher.

ANDY TURNER (PLAID) is a legendary figure in electronic music having been a founding member of seminal group Black Dog Productions before settling his output through the Plaid moniker. His contributions under these projects formed a core part of Warp Records early identity seeing Bytes released as part of the groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence series.