welcome to the first “bistro” soiree on the 30th of March, 18:00 at Myymälä2!

We are more than happy to host an evening for London-based sound artists and musicians: Regan Bowering, Conal Blake, Li Song, Ecka Mordecai & Rory Salter. The troupe is visiting the Baltics for four shows, this being the first of them. You can expect to witness percussive, electronic, (electro)acoustic, and more or less performative array of work from the five sound specialists. More words by the artists:
Regan Bowering, Conal Blake & Li Song (Trio)

Li Song, Conal Blake, and Regan Bowering are a percussion and electronics trio based in London. Their work explores site-specificity and improvisation through the use of snare drums, microphones, portable speakers and found materials. In 2023, they released their debut cassette tape “Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers” on Infant Tree.

Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser, and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of objects and materials, drums and percussion, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut tape was released in December 2023 on Bezirk Tapes.

Conal Blake is a musician from Glasgow. He currently plays solo and improvises with Li Song and Regan Bowering, using electronics and percussion. He also runs the Feedback Moves label.

Li Song is a London-based musician and computer programmer. He performs improvised music with his computer and composes music using electronics and acoustic instruments. He has a collaborative project with Zhu Wenbo, No Performance, and is also a member of computer network music ensemble and research group, [ _ _ _ ]

https://infanttree.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-snare-drums-and-portable-speakers

https://reganbowering.com/
https://notimportant.org/
https://feedbackmoves.bandcamp.com/
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Ecka Mordecai & Rory Salter (Duo)

Ecka Mordecai is a London-based artist. She has projects with Revox tape performer Valerio Tricoli in the duo Mordecoli, and in the trio Circæa with Andrew Chalk and Tom James Scott. Her album Promise & Illusion was released on Otoroku in 2022.

Rory Salter makes music under various monikers and has released albums with Alter, TakuRoku, Infant Tree, Teeth, MAL, Bison, Kashual Plastik and more. He lives in London.

Together Ecka and Rory forge soundscapes using an assorted bag of tools – cello, voice, field recordings, cassette tape, feedback, and amplified objects – without giving precedence to any. While their performances are comprised of moments of subtlety and restraint, they are far from straightforward: sounds that had evoked feelings of tenderness and comfort can shift almost imperceptibly to summon a feeling of tense disquiet; incidental sounds of the performance space coalesce with the considered non-musical components of their soundscape to the extent that the two become confoundingly indistinguishable. Ecka and Rory’s adeptness in eliciting emotional dizziness through their muted yet entrancing collaboration allows their sounds to resound beyond the compelling immediacy of their performance.

https://eckamordecai.bandcamp.com/album/promise-illusion-3
https://malvernbrume.bandcamp.com/album/free-music-on-the-clock
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bistro is a series of non-profit instances that touches musical, non-musical, and performance-related matters by blurring the lines between conceptual and solely audio-driven happenings. without any initial goal or thesis – bistro is best described as “just a platform for the curious to bang their heads together”
bistro also works as an online amateur hobby label and is currently managed by teemu ruissalo. #music

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