BEAST @ Centrala

Featuring Guest Artists:

Raw Green Rust

Dushume

Anna Xambó Sedó

We take BEAST into the city for this Centrala take-over weekend and welcome sound artists, composers and researchers for two evening gigs that explore the huge breadth of creativity and sub-genres in the world of electroacoustics and sound art.

Programme

Friday 11 March

19:30

• Anna Xambó Sedó
• Milad K. Mardakheh
• Pardis Nik bakhsh
• Henry Eady
• Sam Bland
• Mick Ryan

Friday night welcomes Anna Xambó, an experimental electronic music producer and researcher. Passionate about extreme digital minimalism Anna likes to explore the boundaries of digital sound focusing on low frequencies, compulsive rhythms, and noisy textures. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Music and Audio Technology and a member of the Music, Technology and Innovation – Institute of Sonic Creativity (MTI2) at De Montfort University. We hear new music from Milad K. Mardakheh sound artist, programmer, and researcher, recent PhD graduate at the University of Birmingham and new performances from BEAST composers Nik bakhsh, Eady, Bland and Ryan. 

Saturday 12 March

19:00

• Raw Green Rust

21:00

• Dushume
• Maria Witek (mxwx+The Animalizer)
• Jake Williams

Join BEAST on Saturday evening as we welcome improvising laptop trio, Raw Green Rust. Jules Rawlinson, Owen Green and Dave Murray-Rust serve up humorous abstract glitch-dub from promiscuous audio processing. Amit D. Patel, aka Dushume, brings Asian influences and DJ culture to the table with a performance that focuses on improvisation, experimental noise and sound, whilst playing on bespoke, do-it-yourself instruments. University of Birmingham Senior Birmingham Research Fellow, Maria Witek, adds live coding into the mix, whilst BEAST performer Jake Williams presents a set that combines field recordings, Shazam’d music, and specially composed DJ tools.