Melting Universe #2 LordAUK & WTCH CNTRL x Indiestad

Op 6 november presenteert Meduse MagiQ de tweede editie van Melting Universe, een experimenteel geluidprogramma dat tevens een reactie is op de hedendaagse manier van muziek maken en muzikantschap beleven. Het programma bestaat uit een serie van concerten die zich afspeelt tussen sonische dialogen: twee muzikanten voeren door middel van hun geluidskunst een gesprek met elkaar en met het publiek. 

Op 3 mei 2018 vond de eerste editie plaat met een ontmoeting tussen Jesscia Moss en Monica Tormell met haar project Moon & Sun. Luister naar een impressie van de twee geluidskunstenaars  in de podcast serie C.O.S.M.O.S #1.

In deze tweede editie zijn genodigden LordAUK, het project van Jaclyn Blumas (Montreal) o.a. bekend van de band Doomsquad en WTCH CNTRL, een nieuw project van Alexandra Duvekot (Amsterdam). Zij brengen de NEVER TEMPLE naar de Plantage Dok op 6 november. 

Iconische new age esthetiek wordt gebruikt op een audiovisuele installatie te creëren, waarin het publiek wordt uitgenodigd. De performance bestaat uit verschillende facetten. Zoals in een droom, zullen beelden en geluiden voorbijkomen. Geluid en beeld zullen langzaam verwringen, zich van elkaar scheiden om vervolgens in elkaar op te lossen tot een vormeloze compositie.

Alles is vergankelijk, niets is permanent. Figuren komen voorbij, worden vormeloos, gedistantieerd van alle context en onderdeel van een groter geweven soundscape. Geluid wordt gebracht als een manier van heling en het vernietigen van je ziel. De ontbindende aard en geluidsgolven dwingen je naar binnen te keren en te zoeken naar de zin. Hoe een betere wereld te bouwen?

Het leven waarin surrealisme realiteit wordt en je eindelijk je innerlijke kind kan ontmoeten, rustend in de armen van LordAUK en WTCH CNTRL. De Never Temple is er voor de i-age. Psychische therapie voor een hoger zelf. Een plek om te reflecteren.

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“The sense of the real disappears behind a blur of images. The images dominate our behavior, our perception and our judgments of truth. We try to come closer to reality as we feel it, perhaps a purer form of reality. We look for elements in our own fantasy and relate them to the fantasy of others. It becomes possible to start a process of communication. A new community is invented. Within this community everyday-elements are highlighted in a new perspective. We strongly believe in the power of subconscious communication - or the strength of the subconscious to influence communication and change one’s view of the self and the other.” 
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” - NXIVM

LordAUK
Jaclyn Blumas is an artist, musician and curator living in Toronto. She is 1/3 of the members in the experimental electronic band DOOMSQUAD. Jaclyn’s multidisciplinary approach to creating art, involving sound design, performance, light and sculpture has led to a seriesof large-scale, site-specific, immersive installations. Jaclyn is a founding member of Heretical Objects, an arts cooperative represented in Toronto and LA. With a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and a passionate history in performance arts, 

Jaclyn's work seeks public participation through the use of dramatic lighting, music & various interactive media. Created for specific locations, her work has exhibited across the country for art festivals such as Nuit Blanche (Toronto, Montreal & Winnipeg), Bloor Cinema Images Festival, ART NXNE, SXSW, TIFF and Luminato. She has curated exhibitions for CONTACT Photography Festival, World of Threads, Come Up to My Room, and is Curator for Toronto’s Long Winter Art’s series. As a curator, performer, presenter and artist you can find Jaclyn's work in alternative places such as a shoreline on Lake Huron, roof tops or various buildings or at ironic new age events or public protests.

WTCH CNTRL
Alexandra Duvekot is a musician, writer, and visual artist. She is an founding member of art and sound collective Meduse MagiQ and is part of experimental psychedelic music group BLUE CRIME. 

In her work, she examines how our perception influences the way we deal with ourselves and our environment, and how our imagination can help us to explore alternative points of view.

She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie at the Image and Language department in Amsterdam and studied at the School of Visual Arts in the Fine Arts Department in New York. Her work on stage creates an opportunity to build up different dimensions and to experiment with projects where art, science and sound become one. On-going research, collaboration and interaction with the audience is a major part of Duvekot’s work.

Working with a variety of media including sculpture, video, performance and sound recurring elements include scientific phenomena, installations, and experimental performance. Alexandra’s work situates itself between reality and fantasy. The driving force behind the work is bringing elements together, creating community and uniting them.

Do people have to believe in an idea to make it real?

NEVER TEMPLE
Iconic new age aesthetics are used to create an audio-visual installation that one can enter into. The performance has many different facets. Like a dream, images and sound will appear close to the view, united and collaborative in spirit. Sound and image will slowly distort, separate from each other and dissolve into a formless composition.

Everything is transient, nothing is permanent. Like a dream, figures appear, become formless, disassociated from all context then become part of a larger interwoven soundscape. Sound is offered as a way to heal and destroy your soul. Entropic nature and sound waves force you to go within and look for meaning. ‘How to build a better world?’.

The life in which surrealism is reality and you finally meet your inner child resting in the arms of LordAUK and WTCH CNTRL. Never temple is for the i-age. It's psychic therapy for your higher self. A place to reflect through refraction.