adsr 11
Welcome to the 11th edition of adsr! Join us for an evening of experimental, diverse and potentially (un)easy sonics (and visuals).
adsr.london has been a thing since Spring '22 Tokoro Studio in N15, independently run by Martyn Riley & Elliot Buchanan
Here are the artists involved for the upcoming event on 29th November so far, and more TBA...
*All Ticket monies and bar profit are distributed equally to all the artists involved.
Sanki
Sanki is a London-based sound and interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, digital media, generative composition, performance, and painting. She weaves sound, visual, and spatial experience to create immersive atmospheres that invite audiences to explore the intersections of sensation and existence. Her work often investigates the boundaries between body, system, and perception, extending into video pieces where sound intertwines with the poetics of fragmented time and sensory ambiguity. Her performances balance violent intensity with meditative tension, guiding audiences into hidden spaces where extremity and beauty converge.
Tokoro Wohnen + Sunni
Perform 'Bing Industries'
The Bing Industries is composed of various improvisation sessions by the sound art duo Tokoro Wohnen (Martyn Riley and Beth Robertson). The shale bings in West Lothian are large mounds of waste material, remnants of Scotland's shale oil industry, that have now become vibrant bodies of ecological strangeness and diversity. Inspired by the bings, the duo recycle different textures and refrains from multiple performances at Tokoro Studio, sediments and discarded artefacts, to create four topographies that explore an industry of waste, contamination and inter-species bin collecting.
Beth Robertson is a sound and radio artist from Glasgow. Through field recordings, guitar and spoken word, she creates compositions that explore local ecologies through feminist narratives and investigate collective listening as a form of environmental activism.
Martyn Riley is a London-based artist whose work is defined by collaboration and a playful approach to exploring themes of memory, decay, and found objects; often incorporating sound. Over the past decade, he has curated experimental music events and performed with various collaborators. His practice includes presenting installations that blend diverse media such as tapes, sculpture, and photography; all centred around storytelling and evoking memories
@sunni0o is a creative technologist and audiovisual artist whose work focuses on the essential characteristics of graphics and sound by means of mathematical precision and aesthetics. Using creative coding tools, she creates immersive spaces where the hidden properties of sound are surfaced and explored.
She has been a member of @in_grid___ since 2022 and co-hosts a monthly radio show with @ywnj1n at Netil Radio.
Martyn & Beth will be accompanied by Katrina Stamatopoulos (violin) & Jeremy Kent (viola) with Live visuals by Sunni.
Beth Robertson
Sunni Liao
MORT DREW
Mort Drew is a sound artist and creative technician working on flat listening and collective broadcasting through experimental ecological radio practices. Their work explores ephemerality, activist radio, and alternative modalities of being with one another, working primarily with live field transmitters and prototypical tools.
Mort is co-director of the artist cooperative Soundcamp, founder of Trans Activist Radio Group and co-founder of Associació So (Sound Association) a new sound art collective based in Catalunya. They release experimental ambient electronic music under the name gravemere.
gravemere is a front/stage/window/ for performance. Using time-stretching and samples from past live transmissions gravemere documents a separation/grief/ache from the organic/real/physical world. An ephemeral practice suspended.
@gravemere
David Leister of Kino Club
David Leister is a filmmaker and performance artist who has lives and works in London UK. Taking references from a photographic background, his films explore the diversity of the 16mm medium with the use of hand processing, photograms, archive and performance. Many of his films make use of the fragility of optical sound where sound and image play equal roles in the lo-fi sonic qualities inherent in the analogue medium.
Leister has been an active member of the film community in London since the 1980s and regularly assists other artists with the presentation of their film work with his celebrated 16mm looping system. He has over a dozen films in distribution with LUX that are regularly included in international experimental film programmes.
Still from GONG
He has compiled an extensive 16mm archive of discarded educational and information films from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, which formed the basis for The Kino Club, his platform for combining improvised film and music in an informal cabaret-club setting, with David Leister as host and projectionist.
Heiter X
Photograph: Katrina Stamatopoulos
Heiter X is building a world of altars and elemental forms—pieces that sit between object and ritual, vessels that move between function and feeling.
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Made from raw, natural materials, the work explores how objects shape the way we live, eat, and gather. Rooted in ancestral memory, shaped by Estonia’s sacred groves and forests, and grounded in the belief that matter carries energy—and that the way we place things shapes the way we live.
More Details to come...
Location
Tokoro Studio, N15 4QL