Sunday Afternoon with Laura Kampman, Marja Ahti, Natalia Beylis, and friends

Organised with Futura Resistenza
Sunday 14 September, 15:00–20:00

Join us for Sunday Afternoon with Laura Kampman, Marja Ahti, Natalia Beylis, and friends sonic interventions organised with Futura Resistenza, bringing together compositions by Laura Kampman, Marja Ahti, and Natalia Beylis, whose works weave experimental soundscapes that amplify the porousness between visual, ritual, and auditory experience.

Photographer and composer Laura Kampman hooks up four phones to a mixer and turns voice notes and location recordings into a beautiful weave of found sound, new age/concrète and impromptu songs that conjure a shimmering, cathartic soundworld.

Marja Ahti (b. 1981, Luleå) is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist working in composition, installation and cross-disciplinary performance. Working with field recordings, sounds of everyday objects and materials, analog synthesis, digital processing and acoustic instrumentation she creates precise musical narratives with organically unfolding sequences of details and textures. Her patiently evolving electro-acoustic constructions suggest a poetic realm between the acousmatic and the documentaristic, between abstraction and the deeply familiar. Ahti is currently based in Turku, Finland. She is active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner Niko-Matti Ahti, in the artist/organizer collective Himera and in collaborative projects with Judith Hamann, John McCowen, Manja Ristić and Mikko Kuorinki.

Natalia Beylis‘ music revolves somewhere between sonic story-teller and multi-instrumental explorer.  Based in rural Ireland, her work parallels the lines of her surroundings: creaking trees, farm animals, vocal samples taken from conversations with her neighbours, the northwesterly breeze, creatures rusting in the hedgerows, strange noises from the bog at dusk and rainfall. Lots and lots of rainfall. Her solo compositions and improvisations mix field recordings with garbled tape collages, manipulated sounds of seemingly mundane objects, eerie mandola mantras and dreamscape piano voyages. While she regularly records on a variety of traditional instruments, she is just as likely to use non-musical sound sources within her compositions. 

Futura Resistenza operates somewhere on the edges of performance, music and the visual arts. Interdisciplinary at its core, for Futura Resistenza a concert is never just a concert and a record reaches far beyond just what meets the ear. The label invites musicians and artists with direct personal connections within its community, as well as people who they simply admire and want to see published or on stage. Futura Resistenza was founded by Frédéric Van de Velde, who formerly worked for WORM and DE PLAYER in Rotterdam and used to run a bedroom-sized music venue called Antenne.

Thank you to Culture Ireland, Cultuurfonds, and Frame Finland for making this part of the exhibition possible