Fluid Space and Pure O Records present Luce Mawdsley’s ‘Northwest & Nebulous’ album launch, an evening of music with Luce and their band with support from sound artist and composer, Lola De La Mata.

April 5th
Fluid Space
L18, Liverpool
7:30 -10:30
£5-£15

STOPMOTION

Directed by Robert Morgan

Starring Aisling Franciosi

2024 | 93mins | UK |

Lola de la Mata - Original Score

Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.

The University of Liverpool's Department of Music continue their dedication to International Women’s Day for the fourth year, this time with a spotlight on women in screen music. The 2024 event is in partnership with the Alliance for Women Film Composers.

This lunchtime concert will feature a series of short screenings with music composed by current students, alumni, and guest composers, together with live performances featuring the Upper Voices Choir.

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Interactive talk
2.30-4.30pm

The lunchtime concert will be followed by a free event open to everyone who attended the concert. The talk will focus on women in screen music, highlighting diversity and amplifying voices to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024.

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This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

STOPMOTION directed by Robert Morgan is release across North America in 385 screens.

CREDITS

Director - Robert Morgan
Screenwriters - Robin King, Robert Morgan
With - Aisling Franciosi, Tom York, Jaz Hutchins, Therica Wildon-Reid
Music Composer - Lola de la Mata
Sound Design - Ben Baird

UK 2023, 93min
Courtesy of - IFC Films
Language - English

PRIZES

Best Director, Fantastic Fest, Austin 2023
Grand Jury Prize, Sitges, 2023

Rosie Middleton is a London-based mezzo-soprano specialising in new music. Working across experimental sounds, opera and performance art, she has worked with hcmf// featured artists Laura Bowler and Riot Ensemble, as well as Phaedra Ensemble, Esin Gunduz and the late Mira Calix. She counts the 2020 Michiko Hirayama Prize for experimental vocal music among her awards.

She brings a collaboration with composer Lola de la Mata (@loladelamata) and designer Kelsey Ann Kasom (@kelseyannkasom) to hcmf//, a new work for voice, electronics, movement and ‘sculptural dress’. Centred around this ‘sculptural dress’, which expands, contracts and shape-shifts, the composition is part of a wider series of semi-autobiographical works addressing how memory is stored in the body. Themes of chronic illness, physical restriction and liberation underline this experimental music-performance art hybrid.

hcmf// shorts takes place on Monday 20 November here in Huddersfield as part of hcmf// 2023.

Collaboration with dancer Rosie Terry Toogood

I will be on theremin, glass sculptural instruments and self made cymbal

Around Sound

An experiential day of performance responding to Devon Turnbull’s ‘HiFi Listening Room Dream No. 1’, curated by Róisín Tapponi

11:00 - 11:30: Listening session with Oliver Leith

11:30 - 12:30: Talk with Es Devlin, hosted by Zoe Whitley

12:30 - 13:00: Collaborative performance by Tsunaina and Maxwell Sterling

13:00 - 13:30: Collaborative performance by Lola de la Mata and Eve Stainton

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/around-sound-tickets-671471889497?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Join us on Friday 23 September 2022 at @iklectikartlab celebrating the talented artists that contributed singles highlighting their relationship with the act of listening ~ for our listening pleasure.⁠
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With performances from @damsel.elysium @astridsonne @loladelamata⁠ & @soundaroundme_ you don't want to miss out on this 👂🏼✨⁠
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Tickets are available via the link https://www.tickettailor.com/events/iklectik/738786
£10.50 Advance / £12 OTD⁠

COLLIDING LINES presents,

K I N E T I C @ I K L E C T I K

Thursday 9 June 2022 | 8pm [7:30pm doors]

Tickets: £8 / £12+book  https://buytickets.at/iklectik/692053

Colliding Lines present K I N E T I C, an anthology of new visual poetry and performance. Taking “movement” as its starting point, the collection features ten poems reimagined in print, created collaboratively between writer and designer.

Join us as we launch our baby into the wild, celebrating its emergence with live readings from our featured poets – both in person and remote, via video-link – as well as multimedia live performances and film. The project’s themes are mirrored in a series of new dance pieces we’ll be screening from contemporary dancer Hannah Spencer. We are also excited to present a new moving poem, produced as part of the project by award-winning designer Ting-An Ho.

The anthology is sequel to 2021’s publication H O M E, and features the work of designers Angharad Hengyu Owen, Manita Songserm, Rosaire Appel, Pedro Neves and Pouya Ahmadi.

Published poets include Bibi June, Cleo Henry, Daisy Thurston-Gent, David & Lizzy Turner, Lauren Scharhag, Lola de la Mata, Nikki Marrone, Robin Lamboll, Tina Lesnik, Veronique Homann & Wesley Freeman-Smith.

London based record label, SA Recordings, celebrate their 3rd birthday this year. To celebrate they've pulled together some friends of the label for a night of performances at OTO.

With special performances from @floraytw, @lilbertucci, @btvida, @cncpcn and @loladelamata so you wouldn't want to miss it. ⁠

The Body Electric

A programme exploring queer themes by LGBT composers, including new works by Cee Haines (using the ROLI keyboards) Robert Reid Allan (using interview material about gay mentors, modulating text with a TouchKeys keyboard) and Lola de la Mata (combining video, electronics, music and theatre in collaboration with two performance artist/dancers).

Robert Reid Allan – Do you share coming out stories still?
CHAINES – Escape TERF Island
Lola da la Mata – A meditation on unnatural corporeality in three tableaux
Zubin Kanga – Hypnagogia
Luke Nickel – hhiiddeenn vvoorrttiicceess

An evening of performances @studio fluid in Aigburth

+ Aby Fulami //alternative Jazz Soundscape in collaboration w/ choreographer Rosie Terry Toogood
+ Hankbee//Alt Folk & tragically ironic lyrics
+ VAGUS film screening // Collaborative Audio-Visual work by Lola de la Mata and Britta Thie
+ Paintings by Ash Daley

Part of What Shall We Build Here, Artsadmin’s festival of art, climate and community from 8-12 September.

Immersion was a collaboration between Selina Thompson, the People of Tower Hamlets and the Air they Breathe. Over one day, four groups of self-appointed Custodians of Air stood facing the North, South, East and West of Tower Hamlets, playing the sounds of breathing out into the day and night.

Built from a chorus of breath collected in parks and spaces across the borough from local womxn of colour, the sound is a moment of cleansing and defiance, taking a sound we are surrounded by and tuning into its beauty at a time when breathing has never felt so loaded.

September 10th
11am, 2pm, 5pm, 8pm
Free. Audiences can book to attend one, several or all performances.
Performance duration: 20 minutes

Three world premieres by three emerging composers, followed by a Q&A session.

This event has now sold out.

MEET THE ARTISTS
Lola de la Mata presents NULLA 0, a monolith, a sound art project about agency – amplifying voices that are often othered, while sharing narratives gathered through conversations with participants who identify across non-binary, womxn and women (cis/trans) which have typically been omitted from our collective histories.

Chisara Agor has created an installation to explore the philosophical concept of ‘metaxy’ through the idea of being/feeling seen and unseen, how this can transform, and how we can experience this through sound and art.

Anna Pool’s piece examines the transformative power of faith on people and place, both through the impact that faith communities have had on Spitalfields itself, and the personal faith journeys of individuals from East London and beyond.

Produced by Spitalfields Music in partnership with Rich Mix. With support from Help Musicians UK.

Launching the Feminist Library's Women’s History Month programme celebrating Women in Music throughout March. Lola de la Mata and Joanna Ward exchange their influences, research and practices to illustrate some of the ways in which scores and a composer's practice can evolve past the more commonly understood framing of the archaic notion of the lone "pale male and stale" composer.

The conversation touches on Pauline Oliveros' book of Deep Listening, the collection of open scores "Women's Work" published mid 1970s by Annea Lockwood and Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono's Instruction Score inspiring us to scream, Khyam Allami's article "Microtonality and the Struggle for Fretlessness in the Digital Age", Lola Olufemi's "Feminism Interrupted", Eliane Radigue's "The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal", and "Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto" by Legacy Russell...among some other wonderful mentions.

MIU MIU SS21 CAMPAIGN FEATURES ‘CURTAIN CALL’ FROM CONCEPT ALBUM REMISE EN BOUCHE (PALATE CLEANSER)

Director: Alexander Ingham Brooke
MIUMIU Spring 2021 campaign by Rasharn Agyemang @rasharn_agyemang style by Katie Elanor Grand @kegrand

Soundtrack @loladelamata (Curtain Call)
Sound design and soundscape
A.A.R Studio

#model @ajokdaing @bibiabdulkadir

#hair @cyndiaharvey
#makeup @mirandajoyce
#set @andyhillmanstudio
#Nails Anatole Rainey
Casting @julialangecasting

cinematography and edit by
Alexander Ingham Brooke @alexanderinghambrooke_
First A/C Camera : @oscaroldershaw
Production @aprilproductionltd
Thank you @virgygiannini @bigskystudios @thedawesproject @leonardpetit
@imagepartnership

WATCH HERE

TAFELMUSIK W/ FRANCESCO FUSARO
& LOLA DE LA MATA

FIRST AIRED SUNDAY 1ST NOV AT 3PM ON @nts_radio WITH @ilfroz (AKA FRANCESCO FUSARO)
A FOCUS ON LIVING COMPOSERS WHO IDENTIFY AS WOMEN (CIS/TRANS), AND OTHER MARGINALISED GENDER IDENTITIES

Includes works by @millennial_perennial @ain.bailey
And Composer X. Lee @01011000___

I selected all living composers while @ilfroz focused on past composers
+ works from mentors who helped me along my sound journey @aishaorazbayeva #jenniferwalshe #soosanlolavar @penultimatepress

LISTEN HERE

Commissioned by City London Festival and Nonclassical

Exploring the idea of ‘ironed time’, studying the façade of screens, exploring ways to disrupt the flatness we all interact with - VAGUS, from the vagus nerve, our human version of a screen saver - considers our migration to online spaces littered with racists, classist, homophobic, transphobic algorithms during our time in lockdown filled with digital delay interactions.

The audio, visual and text are put together using improvisation and experimentation.

WATCH HERE

Read more about the concept and early stages on Nonclassical’s blog here: https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/engage-1/2020/7/23/lola-delamata-britta-thie

Six contemporary classical composers have been commissioned to create new works as part of a collaborative project between PRS for Music, new music collective the Riot Ensemble and conceptual project, Zeitgeist. BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show with Kate Molleson and Tom Service is premiering the new works, three of which were broadcast last week. 

Tune into BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show at 10pm on 22 August to listen to the rest of the new commissions.

To listen back to the previous programme, visit www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lsz1

NONCLASSICAL releases Volumes 1–3 ‘Outside the Lines’ compilation series brings together some of the new classical music scene's best emerging artists. Discover your new favourites.

Read about the Embalmer here

***NOW SOLD OUT
Nonclassical Associate Composer Lola de la Mata curates this vital evening of women, non-binary and queer artists making work now, bringing together a diverse programme exploring themes surrounding identity, gender and ‘the gaze’.

The night blurs and challenges the notion of a one-directional concert experience, with music, installations and video colliding all across the space. Experimental composer-performers Jennifer Walshe & Neil Luck present their debut performance as a duo, sharing a common interest in the voice and esoteric live performance. Later on, Lola performs her confrontational protest piece I’ll Show YOU My G String. 

Introducing the night will be Phoebe Collings-James’ film Mother Tongue, Mother Master which aims to decode the diaspora she has experienced as a mixed-race woman through her West-Indian British roots. Elsewhere, there’s Olivia Norris’s uncanny dance video SISSY FATIGUE exploring fetishised female blondeness, and female rage to the music of Bully Fae Collins.

Lola also presents her work for cello Sway – performed by Cecilia Bignall – which, erm, rubs up against Glitter Dicks, a video work that’s exactly as explicit as it sounds, by queer performance art duo Antonio Branco & Riccardo T.

Please note that this performance contains nudity.

IKLECTIK
TICKETS £6 (CONCESSIONS*), £10 (ADVANCE), £12 (ON THE DOOR)

read more here

Tracksuit Trendy is a piece of composition and performance art which intersects various political media threads into a commentary on the binary beauty standards and toxic culture surrounding whiteness, the misogyny erupting from reddit polluting the online community with ridiculous ‘scientific’ claims about the disappearance of the Y chromosome, and the appropriation and rebranding of the working class garment - the tracksuit - which the fashion industry has successfully turned into a luxury item.
VIDEOS AND PHOTOGRAPHS HERE

Lola de la Mata - Composition, Choreography, Film & Costumes
Olivia Norris - Choreography & Performer
Riccardo T - Choreography & Performer

PREMIERED at Post Paradise - February 22nd 2019