Electric Umbrella #25 with Nina Garcia & Liegenaar

Nina Garcia explores a new technique. She adds to her instrumentation, reduced to the essentials (a guitar, a pedal and an amp), an electromagnetic microphone which, when held in hand, makes it possible to listen in on the exact zones where the vibration of the string creates a sound amid vast spaces of silence. The guitar is unplugged, and the body/instrument relationship changes in dimension.

In this series of variations, you can get caught up in masses of noise seen from very, very close up, evocations of melodies in the making, feedback on ridgelines, pulsations that hold their own, modulations weakened by exhaustion and harmonic bursts that hint at better days to come.

LIEGENAAR is an experimental free improvisation duo from Antwerp, Belgium. Their practice takes on different forms reaching from noise performances and sound installations to food art.

With an ever-changing set-up they construct an atmosphere that is both welcoming and hostile at the same time. They are interested in using a variety of lo-fi techniques and sound sources like tape recordings and amplified junk materials while retaining a naive approach to making sound. This results in a mixture of murky vocalizations layered upon dissonant rhythms glued together with handmade and manipulated instruments carefully beaten to pulp.