The Substation/ Artist/Lea Bertucci/
Lea Bertucci is an artist, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments, her work incorporates multichannel speaker arrays, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology applied to field recording and sampling/collage techniques.
In recent years, her projects have expanded toward site-specific and site-responsive sonic investigations of architecture and acoustics, most notably in 2018’s Acoustic Shadows, a suite of compositions and sound installation that took place as part of the Bruckenmusik Festival, inside the hollow body of the Deutzer bridge in Koln Germany.
Her autodidactic and idiosyncratic approach to music is marked by dense masses of sustained dissonance and a fascination with the sonic substance of common experience through eccentric methods of field recording and collage. Tape manipulation and other creative recording techniques push the limits of the recorded medium to elicit a visceral sonic and emotional experience from the listener.
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PRESENTED BY THE SUBSTATION AND ROOM40
New York based artist Lea Bertucci has created a profound and personal universe of sound stemming from her interests in sonic mass, harmony and texture. Her recent album, A Visible Length Of Light, sought to juxtapose her skills as a wind instrument performer against a mesh of tape noise, extended drone approaches and a tidal waves of bass frequency. Similarly, her live performances share these interests, dwelling in an utterly dynamic and intense sonic realm.
Joining Bertucci is Sia Ahmad who performs under the name Shoeb Ahmad. Creating a deft sonic language shaped equally through intense improvisational strategies and her interest in song form, Sia’s work is aesthetically divergent, but united under her unique sense of relational sonics. She creates a seamless web of sound from tangential strings.
ACCESS
The seating options for this event are mats on the floor and limited seats with backs.
This event is wheelchair accessible and gender neutral accessible toilets are available.
The Substation galleries, bar and bookshop are open from 6.30pm (one hour prior to the performance).
