Afrorack (Uganda) – Sept. 27, 2024
Presented in partnership with Red Gate Arts Society
Friday, September 27, 2024; 8pm
Red Gate (1965 Main Street) [map]
Doors open at 7:30pm
w/ Phen Ray, Goo and Jacob Audrey Taves
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Bamanya Brian (aka Afrorack) takes modular synths in an entirely new direction with his DIY Afrorack synth, which he built by hand after patiently scouring computer repair shops in his hometown of Kampala, Uganda in 2018.
A free workshop with Bamanya Brian will take place on September 28. Space is limited; registration required. Workshop and registration details TBA.
Bamanya Brian
Bamanya Brian is an experimental multidisciplinary artist from Uganda and performs and records under the name Afrorack. He is one of the people pioneering the making of electronic music instruments in Africa. He has always found fascination in tinkering with electronics, building circuits, hacking devices and messing around with microcontrollers. He has done projects in sound art, electronic music, experimental visuals, renewable energy and kinetic sculptures. He has appeared at several international festivals which include Atlas Electronic, Nyege Nyege, Elevate, Dakar Art Biennale and Sonar among others. In May 2022, Brian released his debut self-titled album –The Afrorack – which was received with popular acclaim making it to several music writers’ best albums of 2022 including The Wire Magazine top 50 albums of 2022. He has also been featured on the BBC world service.
Max Ammo. Photo by Chieh Huang.
Max Ammo (they/them) is a non-binary audiovisual artist from Mexico City who currently lives and works on the unceded and traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Their work expands across different mediums such as illustration, graphic design, music production, animation, 3D and more.
Goo is their experimental thriller-electronic solo project, with a focus on drone, noise and spectral latin american influences.
Their sound ranges from sleazy, swampy beats accompanied by haunting lyrics in Spanish to lush & soothing melodies with entrancing percussion. You never really know what you are going to get as they are constantly exploring and shedding their own sounds and limits.
https://soundcloud.com/goo-mx
Phen Ray.
Phen Ray (Stephen Murray) is a musician, producer born and raised in Barbados who lives and works in Vancouver BC. With a sound that is born out of an interest in music from the fringes of experimentation, Phen Ray fuses the most sincere elements of what draws us to music and the most basic intonations that revive the spirit of musical innovation. Working with his own experimental noise band “Cock Fang”from 2005 -2008 to his work with artists Kelis, Toronto avant garde band LAL, Witch Prophet, Sitka based artist Nicholas Galanin “Indian Agent”’ and to currently scoring a CBC series “Black Life: A Canadian History, his compositions generate overtones more compelling to the listener than the sum of their parts — it is this that makes them so powerful.
Jacob Audrey Taves.
Communicating in a language of errors, hum, crackle, feedback, found sounds and images, audio and visual artist Jacob Audrey Taves is best known for their ongoing plunderphonic industrial project HOLZKOPF. They are also a member of ORGANS WITHOUT BODIES (with percussionist John Brennan) as well as ASSAULT CHARGE (a punk/digital hardcore band with songwriter and author Eamon McGrath). Taves was the guitar player for the short lived no-wave three piece OTHER JESUS. They are curator of the audio/video collage series INTERIOR NETWORK and host of OFF-WORLD, Mondays at 8pm local time, on CJSR 88.5FM in Edmonton, Canada.
Using a combination of analogue and digital no-input mixing, chance and juggled and cut-up corrupted audio artifacts, Jacob Audrey Taves performs work that channels the cassette DJ techniques they became known for in previous projects while taking full advantage of the extreme possibilities of digital processing.
Top photo: Afrorack by Lorenzo Palmieri.
