Events
Cherche Encore : Crosspiece launch at Ormside Projects
Cherche Encore celebrate the release of Crosspiece by Theodora Laird & Caius Williams with an evening showcasing music produced through close working collaborations. We invite friends of the label Egg Meat and MEANDERS to join Theodora & Caius in their own interpretations of composition and improvisation through ongoing projects. Free food at 7:30pm. Live acts from 8pm plus a DJ set to round off.
Caius Williams is an improviser, bassist, and composer from London with a varied practice including improvised music, electronic music, and projects exploring experimental approaches to composition. Some current collaborative/supportive roles include a duo project with guitarist Tara Cunningham, and recently working in Lifetones: a project led by Charles Bullen of This Heat. He has been running and curating the Grain residency at Avalon Cafe in Bermondsey. His debut album Gwannach is out now via Cafe OTO’s OTOROKU.
Theodora Laird is a multidisciplinary artist, songwriter and producer. She has released several EPs under the moniker feeo - including most recently run over, made with support from the PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music fund. As a vocalist she has appeared on projects such as Loraine James’ Hyperdub release For You And I and she regularly contributes to the Grain residency as an improviser.
Egg Meat is a project from London based artists Tooth Rust aka Laurel Uziell and Georgie McVicar. Their self-titled EP, released via Alien Jams in late 2022, features poems spoken by Danny Hayward. The manipulations of Hayward’s voice are at times so extreme as to render them indistinguishable from the clattering electronics that engulf them.
MEANDERS is an ongoing collaboration between Daniel S. Evans (Shovel Dance Collective) and Jasper Llewellyn (caroline) exploring improvisation as an all-encompassing approach to performance, sound, action and friendship. Through an extensive archive of documented audio, video, images, objects, writing and transcribed/re-performed conversation they explore a richly woven inner-world of what it is to meander.
No-one turned away for lack of funds. If you can't buy a ticket, please email contact[dot]cherche[dot]encore[at]gmail[dot]com
Poster design by Hoagy Houghton.
Cherche Encore showcase at Hatch Sheffield
with digital selves + Joana Chicau, eye measure, Meanders (Daniel S. Evans + Jasper Llewellyn) and Sleepsang + Phoneutrian
Cherche Encore’s first showcase in Sheffield, presenting works by artists commissioned for label releases in 2022, and made possible by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England. The 4 acts presented are collaborative, with artists making music or visuals together, and span from live-coded dance music to instrumental improvisation.
Digital Selves + Joana Chicau are performing dance music and live visual following the "error topography" release on Cherche Encore:
https://cherche-encore.info/releases/digital-selves-error-topography
Eye Measure is playing live-coded dark and fun dance music:
https://eye-measure.neocities.org/
Meanders is an ongoing collaboration between Daniel S. Evans (Shovel Dance Collective) and Jasper Llewellyn (caroline) exploring improvisation as an all-encompassing approach to performance, sound, action and friendship:
https://www.mixcloud.com/RTM_FM/cherche-encore-with-meanders-270122/
Sleepsang + Phoneutrian are presenting their collaborative new release. Biomes is a new EP from long-standing collaborators Sleepsang and Phoneutrian. Inspired by how environments are shaped by human activity and scientific responses to climate change, they’ve translated this into six interrelated pieces of organic, textural music:
https://cherche-encore.info/releases/sleepsang-phoneutrian-biomes
Cherche Encore Cafe Oto Showcase
with Alero, digital selves + Joana Chicau, eye measure, Meanders and Sleepsang + Phoneutrian
Cherche Encore is a slow-paced DIY project founded in 2017 by Blue Maignien (Hortense) and Harry Murdoch (hmurd), and now run together with Hazel Ryan (Deep Vain).The internet label releases music tied to the Algorave scene and beyond, branching out to experimental electronic as well as more instrumental and dance music. This is Cherche Encore’s first showcase at Cafe OTO, presenting works by artists commissioned for label releases in 2022, and made possible by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England. The 4 acts presented are collaborative, with artists making music or visuals together, and span from live-coded dance music to instrumental improvisation.
Earwax x Cherche Encore: Aftercare
With Digital Selves, Diessa, ex.sses, eye measure, ru alero, ready for battle, TryB, Madinah Thompson, Georgie McVicar, Niloo
Cherche Encore 007 : Spring (livestream)
with m.Kwas, Max Winter x Thomas Page Dances, Daniel M Karlsson, Chris Speed, Ramaleigh, Georgie McVicar, +777000, nexcyia, Charles Verni, angelicaa, Johann Diedrick, and aamin.
Cherche Encore 006 x sixtyseventcollective
A room of One's own vol 2 with Jessika Khazrik, peb, Hortense, Benjamin Whateley, Marion Magrangeas, Andrej Chudy and Gabriela Zigova.
Cherche Encore 005
with Aamin, Charles Verni, Daniel M Karlsson, Eye Measure, hmurd, Jtle, SQC
WBB x Cherche Encore
with Johann Diedrick, Laila Blebleble/p38, Teresa Winter and Venus Ex Machina
Cherche Encore 002
with Inverted Why Research Lab, Hortense and MSHR
Cherche Encore 001
with Object Blue, rkss and Terribilis