Tue 19 Apr

Man/Machine

Paul Granjon + FOUND + Ross Sutherland + Nikesh Shukla + Tamarin Norwood + MC Nathan Penlington
featuring Ladies of the Press*

Richmix

A night of performance exploring technology, robotics and automation.

Paul Granjon and his robotic support cast present Low Tech Songs and Servo Drive: a combination of video, home-made cardboard instruments, hard-wired disco and reflections on modern robotics. Author Nikesh Shukla dons his white coat and bionic arm to play a scientist with an obsession with comics who loses himself to circuitry and madness; Tamarin Norwood provides unspoken word with her choreographed piece Doing Words With Things in British Sign Language; poet Ross Sutherland presents his new lecture and film on translation and robot poetry, Every Rendition on a Broken Machine, inspired by the work of JG Ballard (who died two years ago to the day). Scottish wonky indie collagists FOUND, whose autonomous emotional band Cybraphon is installed in Richmix Cafe, perform from their new album Factorycraft (Chemikal Underground). Hosted by poet, magician and gadget-phile Nathan Penlington.

“their sound is so progressive, so completely unique, it’s demeaning to tie it to the stale confines of a label. Instead, we should be celebrating the euphoria created by their extraordinary kaleidoscopic soundscapes.?
- Drowned in Sound on FOUND

“Ross Sutherland’s poetry approaches the epic; a kind of epic on a human scale. If he were a piece of furniture, he would be an elegant high stool that felt uncomfortable and stylish at the same time.”
- Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 3 on Ross Sutherland

“Energetic, tender and fizzing with some hilariously awful rapping.”
- The Word on Nikesh Shukla’s Coconut Unlimited

www.foundtheband.com
www.zprod.org
www.rosssutherland.co.uk
www.tamarinnorwood.co.uk
http://nikeshshukla.wordpress.com

 

 

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