- Dates:
1 July 2025
- Opening times: 19:00 - 21:30
- Venue:
Temple of Art and Music, London, SE1 6DR
- Entry:
Free
The Engine Room presents: Dirty Electronics, Soborgnost, and Mer sounds (深海) for an evening of sonic experimentation that pushes at the boundaries of sound art and music.
John Richards (Dirty Electronics) focuses on shared experiences, social interaction and critical making. He is concerned with the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics, and he has come to consider these activities as a holistic action. It is a fluid, live practice associated with the ideas of workshop-installation and performance-installation. His work blurs the boundaries between music, performance art, electronics, and graphic design and is transdisciplinary as well as having a socio-political dimension. He has also written numerous texts on DIY practices, performance of electronic music, and material approaches in relation to sound art.
For this performance, Dirty Electronics will build an emergent and evolving performance-installation with DIY sound circuits, high voltage and objects that speak.
instagram.com/dirtyelectronics
Soborgnost is sci-fi dance punk at the intersection of vaporwave, minimal wave, disco dub, industrial, EBM, proto-house, drone and noise.
Using a hardware sampler to emulate dub mixing, looping post-punk style basslines with chuggy, lo-fi beats. Warped analogue textures are added with cassette tape manipulation, electro magnetic frequency transmitters, shortwave radio, harsh noise generator and dub sirens.
Mer sounds (深海) is a genderqueer sound artist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. They weave together instrumental improvisations with field recordings and electronic melodies, creating ambient and experimental soundscapes. Through sound, they want to build worlds that offer a moment of collective respite for marginalised folks. To reach for depths and make space for hope, to build liberated futures.