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Oct
29

Lyra Pramuk Live

Series

(Transmissions)
Soundwalk Collective

Summary

Where

Reethaus

When

Sunday, October 29, 2023
18:00-22:00

What

Performance with conversation

As part of Soundwalk Collective’s “Transmissions” series, Lyra Pramuk performs a site-specific, neo-psychedelic curing ritual: auratic, emotional and sensual. Her sounds are built from liquified vocals and mystical electronics, offering transcendental qualities that exceed the pure listening-experience. Pramuk’s take on ancient folk music and spirituality is driven by the desire to explore the healing potentials of music. She fuses classical vocalism, pop sensibilities, performance practices and contemporary club culture, investigating the relation between technology and humanity and a post-human, non-binary understanding of life.

The performance takes place in the intimate inner room of the Reethaus, where Pramuk will debut a new live set accompanied by Jules Reidy on electric guitar and Dylan Kerr on flutes, bells, Shruti box and voice. Embracing the spirit of improvisation, the program integrates unreleased tracks with spoken poetry alongside original songs spatialized for our 4DSOUND system programmed in partnership with MONOM.

The performance will be followed by a moderated conversation between Lyra Pramuk and her frequent collaborator, synth virtuoso Caterina Barbieri. Light food and drinks will be served over the course of the evening. 

Composed and arranged entirely from the sound of her own voice, “Fountain,” Lyra’s acclaimed debut on Bedroom Community, was hailed by The Quietus as “a potent religious text in praise of human vocality’s promise.” Her forthcoming compilation “Delta” showcases a global interpretation of “Fountain”’s psyche, through reworking, recomposing, and reconstructing the source material, projecting them through the many lenses of her colleagues and collaborators.

Series

(Transmissions)

Soundwalk Collective invites key influences and frequent collaborators featured across their extended body of work to participate in a series that samples from the past 60 years of sonic arts. Reflecting a personal view on collaboration as an essential aspect of the creative process, the series presents a broad summary of the sonic landscapes that they have developed over the past two decades. Seminal masterworks and newer pieces blend into a cohesive yet varied ensemble that spans musique concrète, performance art, contemporary and mystical music. All of these genres have in common a meditative dimension, a transitional nature that has been at the core of Soundwalk Collective’s work.

Other events of the series:

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Lyra Pramuk

Growing up singing in choirs, Lyra struggled to conform to the images and expectations of her small Pennsylvania town, creating a deep and complex internet-fueled interior world in response and presaging her view of digital worlds as extensions of our embodied consciousness, liberated from real-world notions of presentation and acceptable knowledge. A diligent student at the Eastman School of Music, she later found communal ecstasy in the temples of choir and rave, learning that her skills lay in breaking with and reinterpreting the traditions of the academically-pure classical music that she was expected to uphold.

Composed and arranged entirely from the sound of her own voice, “Fountain,” her debut on Bedroom Community, was hailed as “a potent religious text in praise of human vocality’s promise” (The Quietus). “Fountain” integrates the intimacies of the club, the emotional multitude of trans experiences, and the forbidding possibilities of social and physical technologies into “an excavation of her own body’s resonant possibilities” (Pitchfork), envisioning a post-human queer futurity. Her forthcoming compilation “Delta” showcases a global interpretation of Fountain’s psyche, through reworking, recomposing, and reconstructing the source material, projecting them through the many lenses of her colleagues and collaborators.

Featured

Caterina Barbieri

Caterina Barbieri is an Italian composer and modular synth virtuoso. Based in Milan, Barbieri crafts musical vortexes rooted in minimalism that explore the polyphonic and polyrhythmic potential of sequencers and the psycho-physical effects of repetition in music. With a background in ethnomusicology, Barbieri brings a poignant, no-frills approach to her critically acclaimed releases, beginning with 2017’s breakthrough double-album “Patterns Of Consciousness”. Barbieri has played a slew of the world’s most important music festivals, from Unsound and Atonal to Primavera Sound and Sonar, and has presented well-received shows at London’s Barbican Centre, Berlin’s Volksbühne and Philharmonie de Paris, among others.