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Safe Operating Space is about the beauty of unrepeatable moments. Composer, electronic musician, improviser and field recordist Tullis Rennie with mixes recorded and live music with the extraordinary line-up of Tara Franks (cello), Cath Roberts (baritone sax), Dee Byrne (alto sax) and Preetha Narayanan (violin).
Their recent self titled album explores new aspects of Rennie’s practice while reflecting thoughts on themes such as global heating, AI-generated deepfakes, family life, and Kate Bush. Working live with the album as a departure point, the ensemble play alongside, against and around fragments of the recordings, Rennie using analogue drum machines and synthesisers.
“Blending string improvisations and outré brass with expertly deployed electronics and samples…equal parts tender and affronting, slaloming gracefully around conventional approaches to rhythm, melody and harmony with a lexicon that’s unmistakably his own” – Electronic Sound
“Free improv sessions get warped into booming, boundary-pushing electronica… as if we were listening to an intergalactic visitor’s attempt at appropriating the dancefloor” – theQuietus
Listen here: https://efpirecords.bandcamp.com/album/safe-operating-space
Doors from 7pm. Music from 8pm. Free entry – donations welcome.