⏰ 14:00 – 17:00: Workshops & Conversations: Limited spaces, Free
⏰ 19:00 – 22:00: Performances & sharings – £10

@Bridewell Studios

Performance and Sound Explorations is a one-off event with, for, and about sonic practice and its relationship with spaces, bodies, history and more. Join LICK and invited artists Bill Dietz, Ashley Holmes, Lola de la Mata and Mary Prestidge for a day of peer-led conversations and workshops, and an evening of new and in progress sharings where installation, sculpture, movement and archive are in dialogue with sound making.

Bill Dietz is an American composer, writer, and co-chair of the Bard MFA Music/Sound department. Bill is the co-founder of journal Ear / Wave / Event, and is a board member of the Maryanne Amacher Foundation, responsible for promoting and preserving her compositions and research.

Ashley Holmes is an artist based between Sheffield & Liverpool, UK. His work brings together elements of visual art and music, shaped by research interests around hybrid and collaborative methods of production, publishing and broadcasting.

Lola de la Mata is a London born French/Spanish conceptual sound artist, composer, curator and musician currently based in Liverpool. Tinnitus and aural diversity are at the core of her research practice, inspiring glass, metal, and ceramic musical instruments.

Mary Prestidge has been evolving a dance practice for over 50 years. She performed with Ballet Rambert in the early 1970’s but later gravitated toward an independent context with artists giving space and support to experimentation and research. Mary was a co founder of the radical X6 Dance Space and collective and its successor Chisenhale Dance Space in London in the late 70’s and 80’s.

WYRM in association with QUARRY is pleased to present a performance from legendary Japanese snare drum artist RYOSUKE KIYASU. This performance will take place at Metal, located at Edge Hill Station, Liverpool.

Ryosuke Kiyasu has been active as a snare drum soloist
since 2003 and is also known as a drummer in “SETE STAR SEPT”, “Kiyasu
Orchestra”, Mr. Keiji Haino’s band “Fushitsusha”. He is also known as a
founding member of The Endless Blockade in Canada.

His solo performances have been featured on BBC News (UK national
broadcaster) and VICE Magazine, His performance in Berlin in 2018 was a
big hit on social media with over 23 million views.

In 2022-2023, the world’s largest classical percussion festival
“Überschlag Festival”, “Dr. Martens Fest 23”, “Outsider Art Festival” in
Finland, and “Alternativa Festival” in the Czech Republic. He continues
to travel around the world and perform in various places.

In 2023, at the Edinburgh Art Festival in England, a short movie of
his snare drum performance by a British director was shown as an
exhibition and became a topic of conversation.

He also released a collaborative work with the Swedish apparel brand
“Our Legacy”. He has released more than 200 albums, both solo and with
his band.

To mark the end of her year-long residency as Research Curator at FACT, Stella Sideli chairs this panel discussion exploring composition, polyphony, movement, and collective world-building as core elements of artistic and institutional practice.

Grounded in ideas of listening, attunement, and shared or embodied resonance, this conversation considers how creative methodologies—spanning sound, voice, philosophy, computation, and performance—can support re-thinking governance, decision-making, and collaboration. 

The panel, which will be a kind of listening score that audience members are invited into, will blend gestures, reflections, and conversation to explore listening not only as a topic, but as a shared composition, a space of attunement, and a soft, relational shift. Bringing together artists and researchers working across different disciplines, including Vivienne Griffin, Lola de la Mata, Xiaowen Zhu, and Adi Lerer, we'll explore how improvisation, rhythm, and relationality shape collective structures, questioning hierarchical models of participation and institutional engagement.

Rather than reinforcing extractive or transactional modes of involvement, this conversation explores openness, co-presence, and the generative unpredictability of collective processes—asking how artistic practices and methods can challenge institutional dynamics and expand the possibilities of collaboration and transformation.

Ex-Easter Island Head
Charles Hayward: ZigZag + Swirl
Lola De La Mata

Ex-Easter Island Head will be joined on stage by extra special guests Charles Hayward and Lola De La Mata, presenting their own wildly original music as solo artists and joining the group for open-ended explorations of material from the 2024's Norther album.

LIVE: ‘in stillness’

Sounding Here is a platform for experiments in any genre, welcoming all kinds of sound-worlds, curated by Christine Cornwell. We welcome our audience to step into the unknown and witness live art and performance which is alive and kicking!

A solo reworking of a duet presented previously at the Lisson Gallery and IKLECKTIK with performance artist Eve Stainton. Lola will explore the outer edges of the theremin’s electromagnetic fields as a means of pushing against another ‘body’. Slicing through air with the wood of her violin bow, she will generate her own energy and reflections. Sometimes, altering her form in architectural moments of stillness and suspension.

Hosted by the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, experimental Composer Lola de la Mata presents an exhibition of musical sculptures for her Debut Album 'Oceans on Azimuth', alongside special guest Abstract Turntablist, Sound Artist and DJ - Maria Chávez.

Sound will be provided by the wonderous Isa, along with tech support from Eduard....yes- the IKLECTIK dream team!

An Avant-garde Auditory Odyssey Into Tinnitus - Lola’s compositions feature sonic landscapes crafted from throbbing heartbeats and tinnitus phantoms. Translated forms of hearing and listening are explored throughout the project in collaged poems which ricochet amongst field recordings, prepared string instruments, a Claravox theremin, an ear canal shaped gong, and other glass inventions. The project features collaborations with biophysicists A.J.Hudspeth and Francesco Gianoli, and resident musicologist Lana Norris from The Hudspeth Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, NYC.

The night will feature a talk with Jono Heale, Director at ACS (custom musician earplugs) around Tinnitus and Aural Diversity.

+ a 'record your ears' booth, in the hopes to capture spontaneous emissions from the cochlea of attendees.

Ticket price
£13.00 - £16.00*

*Booking fee applies

Ella Blake is a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.

Suddenly alone in the world, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet film, which soon becomes the battleground for her sanity.

As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her.

The Film's composer Lola de la Mata will be taking part in a live Q&A following the screening at FACT.

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