Sonic adventurer who experiments with captivating rhythmic and textured techno.

Basic House is Stephen Bishop, the founder of the cassette-crazy Opal Tapes label. His music is defined by a combination of a pure and primal aesthetic, and a precise attention to sound design. Basic House stands as a powerful testament to broken, crackling dispatches in the form of exhilirating electronic music.

Basic House

songs both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that references worlds held dear and worlds unknown

English singer and guitarist Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour at once charming and abrasive. His shambolically virtuosic guitar playing stumbles from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swatches of noise-colour, swathed in amp static and teetering on the edge of feedback. His songs are both chucklesome and tragic, rooted in a febrile imagination that references worlds held dear and worlds unknown.
Richard Dawson spent years incubating his singular art, becoming a quiet legend on the Newcastle experimental scene before exploding across the UK and Europe with the delicately observed personal lilt of his breakthrough 2012 album The Magic Bridge. Invitations followed to perform at Kraak, Supersonic, and Latitude festivals as well as being lauded by The Wire magazine, Late Junction, The Quietus, The Guardian, Pitchfork and more. Subsequent albums The Glass Bridge (2013) and his latest Nothing Important (2014) have fulfilled and extended the promise of his earlier work, meeting unanimous critical acclaim.

Richard Dawson

Robin Hayward

the connection between sound, life, environment and culture.

Yenting Hsu investigates the connection between sound, life, environment and culture. She adopts materials from field recordings to create audio documentaries, soundscapes, and sound design for dance. Her works often have deep and intimate connection with local communities, which expose the interreflection between culture, environmental sounds and personal/collective memories or emotions. The thematic project she’s researching and working on is Sound Novel project, in which she explores sound as narration and the cultural effects on the perception of sound. www.suotsana.net/ (Website)\[https://soundcloud.com/yenting-hsu]

Yen-Ting Hsu

Liquid Architecture and Tura New Music team up for a evening of diverse and beguiling music

Liquid Architecture’s 2015 Perth program is a special one-off concert presenting international artists presenting in Perth for the first time.
British folk artist Richard Dawson has emerged in recent years as a singularly strange and compelling presence in the global musical underground, with his epically bizarre lyrics and sprawling guitar playing.
Techno maverick Basic House is the dude behind the UK’s edgiest contemporary electronic label Opal Tapes, and on this special occasion, he’ll undertake a world premier collaboration with microtonal Tuba virtuoso, (discoverer of the ‘noise-valve’) Robin Hayward.
The evening will be rounded out be a performance from Taiwanese artist Yen-Ting Hsu, who’s audio environmental works open up the soundscape of everyday life.

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Architecture

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