Psychic Liberation Night: Andrea Pensado + HMOT + bela

silent green presents

Psychic Liberation (PL) is a label founded in 2013, originally run with Miguel Alvariño under the name Primitive Languages as a cassette and record store project in New York City. Since 2019, Nick Klein has operated it solo from the EU under the title Psychic Liberation. 

The concert series of the same name takes place in the Kuppelhalle with changing guests.

Andrea Pensado
Andrea Pensado is a sound artist, educator and concert organizer. Originally from Argentina, she continued her studies in Poland where she studied with Boguslaw Schaeffer. She has been based in the USA since 2002.

Pensado uses voice and hybrid electronics to make her music. The approach to both programming and performance is highly intuitive. Occasionally, the combination of the performance situation, the irrational use of the voice and the inherent uncertainty of improvisations contributes to discoveries of unknown places in her mind.

She performs extensively in the US and abroad, both as a solo artist and in frequent collaborations with other musicians. Her work has been released by Zeromoon, Pan Y Rosas Discos, Cruel Symphonies, Econore Records, Feeding Tube Records, Orb Tapes, Mutual Aid Records, Love Earth Music, Artsy Records, among others. She also produces Sonorium, a series of experimental music based in Salem, MA, USA.

HMOT
Sattar Stas Shärifulla, aka HMOT, is a Basel-based artist, composer, and researcher studying how listening shapes identity and memory.

Born and raised in Eastern Siberia, with Yılan Bashqort ancestry (the “Bashkirs” of the Yelan clan), he explores the auditory nature of Northern and Central Asian autochthonous cultures, where listening and sounding have historically been more important than writing. Drawing on his own dis–re–connection to this heritage, Stas is primarily focused on how settler colonialism subjugates and distorts Indigenous knowledge, reducing its sociopolitical purpose to the production of exotic museum artifacts — and how to undo these dynamics. Working with both traditional instruments and computer music tools, Stas practices in performance, spatial sound and mixed media installation, open form composition, free improvisation, speculative sound fiction, soundwalks, and more. His main instrument is quray, a Bashqort open end-blown flute, whose traditional sound he augments with electroacoustics and extended techniques
 

bela
bela (they/them) is a South Korean musician and performance artist based between Berlin and Prague. bela uses guttural vocals and feedback to build texture and resonance. Conceptually, their work often adopts an autobiographical voice that courses through lived experiences, lineage, and transcendence. In this regard, their music and performance ask to renew or expand the sense of locating around sounds and bodies within the social and celestial sphere.

A recent album and a performance of the same title, Korean Love Sonnets, is devoted to experimentation on the acoustics of the guttural voice in relation to other bodies and spaces. bela discovers romance in its most tactile form, leaning into creaks, feedback, and resonance to create a sombre yet intimate hour, suspended by inhuman notes above the material plane.
 

Tuesday, October 20
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
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