AV night - Chaos Theory presents: IIVII / Lia Mice / Freida Abtan

Chaos Theory presents an evening of audiovisual electronic innovation.

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IIVII

Josh Graham is a visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, electro-acoustic composer who focuses on enigmatic cinematic atmospheres, exploring elements of electronica, classical, ambient, drone and vaporwave.

Josh Graham’s artistic output spans not only multiple musical projects (Red Sparowes, Battle of Mice, A Storm of Light, Neurosis) but also multiple mediums. Prolifically applying his unique creative hand to album artworks, music videos, merchandise and concert visuals, his vision has yielded awe-inspiring creations over the years.

In print/altered photographic mnemonics, visual installation, and sculpture, Graham pursues an obsession with light, dark, shadow space and natural forms. Leaving behind the science fiction themes from his first two full length albums, his latest album “Obsidian” (Consouling Sounds, 2019) explored and reworked Josh’s original score for the behind-the-scenes documentary, Mother! The Downward Spiral, which details the making of Darren Aronofsky’s film, Mother!. A new double album is coming out this March on Consouling Sounds.

“Obsidian is a black glass formed from the intense heat of a volcanic eruption. It is timeless, dark and beautiful, and this release shares those qualities.” – Echoes And Dust

“This is music meant for listening in the dark with lush orchestration... ...Beautiful, eerie, uncomfortable, and moving – all encompassing.” - Scene Point Blank

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Lia Mice

Audio visual artist and producer releasing on Optimo Music, who is persistently working on The Prism Bell, a new oversized gesturally performed digital musical instrument that explores embodied music cognition and scale. Designed and constructed by Lia Mice, The Prism Bell has sensors on each rod that communicate with a sound-generating algorithm, meaning that the tone changes depending how hard you hit it.

Tonight we will hear her ambient downtempo techno set.

"A collision of tripped-out lights and off-kilter industrial-tinged pop." - The Quietus

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Freida Abtan

Electronica producer from Montreal, heavily influenced by the drone scene over there, as well as her time collaborating with Nurse With Wound Official, with recent London techno and melodic sounds starting to creep into her latest offerings. She is currently working on a new audiovisual set, using a real-time system that she designed herself.

"Her obscure soundworld bewilders the listener with an aural experience that is at once naturally derived and somehow completely synthetic, smearing and skewing perceptual boundaries." - Musicworks

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The venue is wheelchair accessible with gendered toilets and a bar on the ground floor.