November 2019 - THE GAZE - in collaboration with nonclassical

The Gaze – a term describing the act of seeing and being seen. Our event on Thursday 21 November explores identity, gender and The Gaze, bringing together female, non-binary and queer artists for an evening of performance art and new collaborations. Read on to learn about our artists, our curator Lola de la Mata and what you can expect from the evening.

https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/news/2019/10/29/meet-the-artists

Riccardo T. performing ‘Q-Hubris’, and Olivia Norris in the film ‘Sissy Fatigue’ @ IKLECTIK

MUSICITYXLOWLINE

https://www.musicityglobal.com/2512-2/

JUNE 4th 2019 PERFORMANCE @UNDERDOG GALLERY 5PM TILL LATE

Musicity x Low Line London Architecture

Musicity, launched by Nick Luscombe, presenter of BBC Radio 3’s greatly-loved Late Junction music show, is collaborating with the Low Line in the latest instalment of a project which gives buildings and spaces their own new soundtrack and invites musicians and recording artists to compose tracks for cities around the world.

Fifteen musicians and recording artists have created fifteen audio tracks responding to fifteen locations in and around the railways arches which form the Low Line.  Each composition can be streamed and downloaded free of charge but only by visiting each location with a smartphone. Once there, people can listen to the new music on musicityglobal.comwhile taking in the architecture and neighbourhood that inspired it.

William Doyle – The Shard

Gestalt – Vinegar Yard

Chihiro Ono – Bermondsey Street Tunnel

Tom Szirtes – Holyrood Street

Erland Cooper – Underdog Gallery

James Alec Hardy – Druid Street Wildflower Meadow

Frog Morris – Blue Bermondsey

Cunning Folk – Biscuit Factory

Full list of artists and their chosen Low Line locations:

Lola de la Mata – Old Union Yard Arches

Thomas Stone – Ewer Street

Szjerdene – Wardens Grove

The Memory Band – Flat Iron Square

Nabihah Iqbal aka Throwing Shade – Borough Market

Lossy – Southwark Cathedral

Suitman Jungle – London Bridge Station

POST PARADISE HIGHLIGHTS

22nd Feb @Centrala, Birmingham UK

Ensemble Entropy and Loré Lixenberg to give 2 performances of my score - MUTED

British avant-garde mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg joins 2018 British Composers Award nominee Matt London’s eclectic ensemble of musicians; Georgia Cooke (flute), Rebecca Raimondi (violin), Seth Bennett (double bass) and Mark Sanders (drums) presenting imaginative music by living and emerging composers exploring communicative improvisation!

Music by Barry Guy, Lola de la Mata, Seth Bennett, Joanna Ward, James B Wilson, Loré Lixenberg and Matt London.

Friday 26 April Listen! Cambridge 
Unitarian Church, 5 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge CB1 1JW
£12 cash on the door / £10 (plus £1 booking fee) online / £10 student discount with valid card
www.listencambridge.com

Sunday 28 April Café OTO London 
8–22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL
£10 / Advanced £8 / OTO Members £6
Doors 7.30pm / Music 8.30pm
www.cafeoto.com

Post Paradise Performance 22nd February @ Centrala

http://www.postparadise.ricercata.org/concerts.html

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Lola de la Mata - Composer & Performer

Riccardo T - Performer

interview with nonclassical!

https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/blog/2019/2/6/spotlight-lola-de-la-mata

Interview with IKLECTIK

Read the last interview with Lola de la Mata, an insight into her new album, the limiting aspects of the creative industry and breaking boundaries.
Lola is a London based artist, musician, and composer whose practice focuses on the body, collaboration, and listening. Lola’s work ranges from monotypes and graphic scores to installations and compositions for movement, voice electronics, and classical instruments. http://iklectikartlab.com/lola-de-la-mata-remise-en-bouche/

PROUD TO ANNOUNCE ASSOCIATE COMPOSER FOR NON CLASSICAL!

https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/news/2018/12/20/4-composers-appointed-for-our-associate-composers-scheme

As an Associate Composer, I will be given a range of opportunities over the next two years, including curating a nonclassical night, writing for a paid commission and appearing on anupcoming Outside the Lines release.

WATCH THIS SPACE /

Corpora Aliena @ IKLECTIK - 'I'LL SHOW YOU MY G-STRING'

Corpora Aliena at Iklectik: ‘Collaboration and Creativity’ Saturday 14 July

Photographs of Lola de la Mata by Mischa Haller. All other photographs by, myself.

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Corpora Aliena is pleased to present a concert of experimental music based on the theme of ‘Collaboration and Creatiivity.

Using as a starting point Brian Eno’s concept of ‘scenious’ or collective intelligence, the concert will feature musicians and producers who have developed projects using a collaborative approach. Featured artists include Steph Horak and Liz Helman, who will perform a new collaborative work; Bernhard Living will present his digitally-based composition ‘Violin Stories’, made in collaboration with the Serbian musician Manja Ristić,  with video by the Russian video artist Elvira Zhagun; and the duo Gardner and Salnikov will perform a dark ambient multimedia set using a wide range of devices including circuit bent DIY machines and video projection of contemplative imagery, CGI creatures and landscapes. In addition to the live performances, there will be a screening of ‘Eight Bedtime Stories’ by the Belgian duo Kraken (Joris Vermost and Ricardo Gomez), and guest-curated by the Moscow-based Dasha Birukova. Also included in the concert is the the London-based French musician Lola de la Mata, who will be performing with a mix of voice, violin, live electronics.

The concert is an exciting opportunity to see and hear some of the leading musicians and artists who are working at the cutting-edge, and who are part of today’s experimental music and contemporary arts scene.

full article: http://iklectikartlab.com/corpora-aliena_collaboration-and-creativity/

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ALBUM REVIEW

'a closer listen' reviewed my work along with 6 other female composers from our mutual label - pan y rosas discos - check it out here: https://acloserlisten.com/2018/05/30/the-women-of-pan-y-rosa-discos/

UPCOMING GROUP SHOW - JUNE 14TH-17TH 2018 - HACKNEY LONDON

I will be exhibiting sculptural and installation works in the 4 day exhibition The Authentic Fake (PV June 14th) at Blase House in Hackney Wick.

I will also be  running a free workshop on the use of the female voice for AI bots (June 15th) alongside researcher Cristina Cochior which is part of Antiuniversity. And, performing as part of the live art evening (June 16th).

You can find the whole Authentic Fake programme HERE. 

Combined tickets £20 - Including Live Art Evening, Performance Lectures and The Vinyl Art Project Live: https://bit.ly/2jsEmVk

Upcoming Gig at Vinyl Deptford- May 18th 2018

https://www.facebook.com/events/143688163140987/

featured on no pigeon hole podcast

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/nopigeonholesexp/episodes/2018-05-04T21_37_40-07_00

GIG MAY 5th - Corpora Aliena presents: ‘Eclectic Electronics’

https://www.facebook.com/events/582895345410944/

Following my album release, I'll be performing on May 5th at IKLECTIK - a Night curated by Bernhard Living -featuring American Sound Artist Bill Thompson, Danish Video Artist Stine Deja, and Electric Elizabeth. £8 Adv / £10 door

ALBUM RELEASE - REMISE EN BOUCHE

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE:

http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr245-lola-de-la-mata-remise-en-bouche/

REMISE EN BOUCHE, which translates as palate cleanser, or in the mouth, is both an act of refreshment for the ears, and a commentary on the misogyny women experience in the creative industries.

The album combines field recordings, classical rifts, untrained voice, violin, and transformed feedback noise. the layers co exist, tangle, overlap, to form a textured sonic world, full of movement, with sounds appearing and receding into dark voids.

Everything you hear in this album was generated acoustically either with instrumentation or concrete sound sources.

composition / mix / album art: Lola de la Mata

mastering engineer: Andrew Larrabee

release date: April 22, 2018.

SOUNDLING FESTIVAL - RECORD FAIR - international women's day special

Soundling festival will be running events throughout the weekend, to celebrate International Women's Day!

https://www.soundlingfest.co.uk/sunday-11

On March 11th at Canvas Cafe by Brick Lane, I will be selling a new release of my text art/poetry sound piece "STUTTERING" in a limited edition of 3, on USB, with a unique print in each.

PLUS

there will be 3 copies of my score MUTED printed on architecture grade tracing paper and wrapped in handmade Japanese paper.

You will also find stuff from Huddersfield, LSO Live, Linear Obsession, Fractal Meat, Mary Stark and lots more.

Liminal Mass

Thu 1 February 2018

19:00 – 21:00 GMT

Location - Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, EG-1 Project space

An evening of live performance examining our bodies' relationship to their surrounding environment incorporating movement, sound, process & film. The performances will flow between one another exploring space and boundaries, from chanting and bodies merged through cloth to explorations of time and live mono printing. In conjunction with the Nunnery Gallery's First Thursday late opening of exhibition Art for the Environment (6-9pm), Liminal Mass performances will start at 7pm in EG-1 project space next door. Free.

Six multi-discipline female artists: Alys Hughes, Bettina Fung, Ingrid Pumayalla, Karen Le Roy Harris, Lola De la Mata, and Miriam Sedacca come together in four performances: Skein, Icaros para sanar, I am tired with you and Water’s breath.

Skein (Collaboration - Alys Hughes, Karen Le Roy Harris, Miriam Sedacca and Lola De la Mata)
An experimental performance uniting sounds and movement, skin and cloth. Skein explores the boundaries of subjectivity through both the individual and collective experience of the body and the dynamic and physical experiences of these relationships, questioning the idea of skin as a boundary which separates us from the world and from others. Supported by the ArtHouse Jersey.

I am tired with you (Bettina Fung)
A large scale and potentially collective mono printing act that questions our competitive, goal oriented and achievement obsessed tendencies and contemplates the value of non-doing. Bettina will spend time and “do nothing” on a large blank sheet of paper with a layer of ink underneath. All are welcome to join her on the paper.

Icaros para sanar (Ingrid Pumayalla)
Chanting Icaros melodies that are learned and sung by Shamans during rituals to performed healing in Perú. During her performance Ingrid will project a video and install objects around her.

Water’s breath (Miriam Sedacca)
Created during a residency in the Peruvian Amazon, this performance considers fluidity as both a medium and mode of being in which bodies are permeable and shared spaces.

SKEIN - at Jersey Opera House

An experimental performance uniting sound and movement, skin and cloth. Skein explores the boundaries of subjectivity through both the individual and collective experience of the body and the dynamic and physical experiences of these relationships, questioning the idea of skin as a boundary which separates us from the world and from others. Skein is being developed as part of a collaboration between four artists: dancer Alys Hughes, visual artists Karen Le Roy Harris and Miriam Sedacca, and visual and sound artist Lola de la Mata.

Please join the artists as they share their latest developments following support through the ArtHouse Jersey residency programme.

Exhibition View - [In]sane - YBI - Sept 2017

Thank you to Candy Choi and Yami-Ichi for making this happen!

Monotypes
From left to right:

"Katinka's Nightmare", 2017, London
Monotype, ink on paper, 48 x 36 cm

"Fuselage", 2017, London
Monotype, ink on paper, 47.5 x 35.6 cm

"Clutches", 2017, London
Monotype, ink on paper, 32.7 x 42.5 cm

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"Chaperone", 2017, London
Monotype, ink on paper, 33.5 x 50.2 cm

Photographs by Despina Pats