Speech Muse

A night of speech music at The Muse Gallery, featuring That Travis, Anastasia Freygang, and Steve Beresford + Lore Lixenberg. Their sets will be followed by an open mic, so please feel free to bring words or an instrument if you'd like to get involved. Hosted by Ethan Cohen.

Featuring performances by:

Anastasia Freygang

Anastasia Freygang presents her conceptual enquiries into the post-linguistic swirl whereby text-to-speech audio glyphs meet song, and the sonic reverberations of the body.

In her performances present tense is called upon. There is interjections of field recordings, more voices. She is devoted to the polyrhythmic and non-linear, using sound and sounding for interventions.

www.69pleasuredome69.bandcamp.com

www.anastasia-freygang.com

Lore Lixenberg

Loré Lixenberg is the leader of The Voice Party, an original mix of of a political party and an opera in opera, which ran in the 2019 elections in the United Kingdom. The Voice Party is the only party you can't join, it's the one that joins you. She has performed worldwide in opera houses, sound installations, galleries, festivals and museums. As a maker, she explores participatory practices including the intersection between the digital and analog worlds and their possibilities to create new operatic forms. Among her works include: Bird, Panic Room (The Singterviews), the real-time opera Prêt à Chanter, the 'opera' dating app SINGLR for "extended vocals" and theVoicePartyOperaBotFarmi[myFuryIsMyMuse] which won the Phonurgia Nova prize in 2021 for Radio Art. She has published the artist's book Memory Maps, the CD The Afternoon and the very first recording of Cage's Song Books for the Sub rosa label, among others. Her recent project Nancarrow Karaoke where she transcribed Nancarrow’s polyrhythmic and microtonal works for player piano for her own voice was published by the Dutch label De Player. She directs La Plaque Tournante and the CRU magazine with Frédéric Acquaviva (Berlin / Paris / London).

www.lorelixenberg.art

insta @lorelixenberg

That Travis

That Travis is a London-based singer-songwriter and a sound artist. Their work intersects between sound, experimental theatre and visual arts. Primarily working with themes like intimacy, history, and time, they use their voice as an investigative tool towards finding a personal anthropology.

Currently releasing music through their label Graceful Gymnastics, they are continuously exploring with their voice being the centre of their practice, from songs rooted in folk traditions as a singer-songwriter to experimental voice music that explores performativity within live settings.

Steve Beresford

Steve Beresford

has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over fifty years, freely improvising on the piano, electronics and other things with people like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, John Zorn, London Improvisers Orchestra and Alterations (with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack).

Steve has worked with Christian Marclay on various Marclay mixed media pieces. He has also worked with The Slits, Najma Akhtar, Stewart Lee, Ivor Cutler, Prince Far-I, Alan Hacker, Tania Chen, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Faradena Afifi, Ray Davies, Mandhira De Saram, The Flying Lizards, Zeena Parkins, The Portsmouth Sinfonia, Ilan Volkov, Rachel Musson, Vic Reeves, Lore Lixenberg, Valentina Magaletti and many others.

Beresford has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, free-improviser, composer, conductor and producer, and was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.