Thanks so much to Kayla for asking me to be part of her monthly radio show on Resonance Extra, Connections to Sound, where she explores our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world.
I recorded a 20-minute modular liveset exclusively for the show, which aired on the evening of Thursday 17 Aug 2023. You can listen back now on Mixcloud.
A couple of weeks ago I spoke at length to Paul Freeman of London sound collective Gwaith Sŵn for their Sonic Darts radio show on Resonance FM.
Our conversation ranged across my career to-date, drawing in all the different parts of my practice including: modular synths, field recordings & found sounds inspired by landscape, generative patterns, parenting and protest.
Was invited to be part of a live improv session with a group of other folks from modular synth land for Synth East at Norwich Arts Centre on 4th March 2023. Names were put in a hat – Gaz Williams, Sam Battle (Look Mum No Computer), Andy Vonal, Robin Vincent (Molten Modular), Steve Davis (Utopia Strong), and myself. I was drawn with Steve and we played a lovely little ambient-drone set with some skittish percussion added towards the end, which turned out really well. From what sounded like a recipe for chaos came a really chill performance experience 😃 Big ups to the other pairs – Robin and Andy + Sam and Gaz.
Really excited to be bringing the machines to London on Monday 27th Feb at Servant Jazz Quarters, Dalston. Working on loads of new material, ahead of recording a new album. Come and see what I’ve been up to! The event is run by improvising pianist Tom Rogerson, who sounds out mesmerising patterns with his fingers – really similar to what I do but the acoustic analogue version, I think it’s going to be a really great pairing for an evening’s listening.
Thanks to Louise Gray for her thoughtful words about my latest releases for the February issue of Wire Magazine, finishing with the line: “This is practice made perfect.”
First date in the diary for 2023 is for this actually completely fabulous algorithmics night curated by Alex McLean aka Yaxu (founder of Algotech Festival and keen Algoraver). I’m really excited to meet some of the artists whose great work i’ve been following online for years but whose paths haven’t crossed with mine IRL, until now!
“Our fourth event in the i-Now series is curated by Alex McLean, the Sheffield-based co-founder of Algorave and Algomech festival. Together we present an evening of pattern-based music performance, a journey from wacked-out instrumental minimalism to full-on algorave and handmade machine music. Diverse performances over two rooms of Sidney & Matilda, plus a secret room of pattern processing run by local dreampeople Interworld”Our fourth event in the i-Now series is curated by Alex McLean, the Sheffield-based co-founder of Algorave and Algomech festival. Together we present an evening of pattern-based music performance, a journey from wacked-out instrumental minimalism to full-on algorave and handmade machine music. Diverse performances over two rooms of Sidney & Matilda, plus a secret room of pattern processing run by local dreampeople Interworld.
I had lots of fun making this sound piece with a group of 8-11 year olds in Saxmundham! We looked at objects from a curiosity cabinet and reimagined them as instruments.
‘BOK BOK’ is installed at ‘Animal Vegetable, Mineral’ at Art Station, Saxmundham, running 2 Dec 2022 – 29 Jan 2023.
About the exhibition – “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral’ is a community exhibition, showing work and objects from artists working both locally and further afield, as well as pieces produced during recent workshops with local groups in Saxmundham. Curated by artists Annabel Dover and Karen Densham, the show is inspired by the 1952 game show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral where a panel of experts were asked to describe and classify an artefact of unknown origin. These artefacts were sometimes fake, sometimes modern and sometimes with an unknown origin.”
So far in its journey out into the atmosphere, Florescence has been reviewed in The Quietus, Foxy Digitalis, Electronic Sound, Waveform Magazine, Moonbuilding, and had tracks played on BBC Radio 3 thanks to Hannah Peel, Jennifer Lucy Allan and BBC 6Music thanks to Tom Ravenscroft.
Loula Yorke 