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CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES

CONFLUENCE #2: ESTUARY LIVE STREAM 22.05.21

Starting today and running alongside the Estuary 2021 festival until 13.06.21, we will be streaming sound pieces via the player below (alternatively you can visit mixlr.com/impeka). There will be four hour-long broadcasts, and each will be repeated the following day. Headphone listening recommended!

Saturday broadcasts 8pm - 9pm on the 22th of May, 29th of May, 5th of June and 12th of June.

Sunday repeats 12pm - 1pm on the 23rd of May, 30th of May, 6th of June and 13th of June.

CONFLUENCE #2 /
ESTUARY 2021 BROADCASTS 27.04.21
We will be contributing to this year's edition of the Estuary Festival, presenting a series of online broadcasts of field recordings and soundscape compositions from the South Essex and North Kent coastlines, as part of their Associated Programme. Further information will be made available on this website and on Twitter in due course, and selections of our broadcasts will be released in a cassette box set (including digital downloads), featuring a booklet of essays and photographs by Peter Coyte, Thomas Gardner, Jonas Gustafsson and Conor Walker, at some point in the future.

TWO NEW EDITIONS /
THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS... 13.11.20

Our very dear friend and collaborator Poulomi Desai has been announced as one of the six Oram Award winners this year, so we would like to begin with sending her many huge congratulations! Also, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of two new releases:

 

«Two Feedback Compositions» by Jake Wittlin consists of two mesmerizing, immersive pieces based on a manipulated feedback loop created by the artist's set-up of turntable, mixer and sampler; one composed for a Resonance Extra broadcast in May 2016, the other specifically created for this release during the winter months of 2019-2020 using the same processes and methodology. Although they were both composed in the noughties, using a single sound source - and with 'only' four years between them - these pieces seem like very distinct manifestations and representations of two rather different fields (as well as eras) of experimental electronic music, with «Feedback Composition No. 1 (2016)» evoking droney tape manipulations and analogue synth experiments, whereas «Feedback Composition No. 2 (2020)» echoes glitch, minimalistic- and algorithmic composition, and even dub techno - yet these two monumental sound sculptures accompany each other remarkably well. Terrific work that we are very proud to release.

Automatic Writing Circle's «Works 2009-2019» collects live recordings and studio mixes from a decade of the group's existence, and documents their activity and creative / compositional approaches over the last ten years. Formed in London in 2007, and having featured a number of artists and musicians from very diverse backgrounds throughout the years, the group - now semi-dormant - has performed at several prestigious festivals and venues across the United Kingdom and Europe. The three pieces on this cassette present us with a wide range of sonic material - from electro-acoustics and jittery concrete, to free improvisation and contemporary classical - reflecting upon both the cultural and musical backgrounds of the performers, as well as the environments in which performances have taken place. Absolutely stunning stuff.

We are unsure as to whether anything else will surface this year, but there are quite a few projects in the works that will hopefully see the light of day in a not-too-distant future. Thank you for your continuing support.


COVID-19 /
AUDIO SAMPLES 03.04.20
As a result of the current health crisis, our planned projects for early 2020 and beyond have been delayed. No dates are set in stone, but below are extracts from three upcoming releases from Jake Wittlin, Jonas Gustafsson and Automatic Writing Circle.

WEBSITE UPDATED /
FORTHCOMING RELEASES 02.02.20
A very belated Happy New Year! Our new website is now up and running. After a relatively quiet 2019, this year we are expecting to present several new releases, including a long-awaited cassette from Automatic Writing Circle, as well as works from Poulomi Desai and Jonas Gustafsson. First out, however, will be a cassette and digital download of «Two Feedback Compositions» by Bristol-based turntablist Jake Wittlin. This release presents two lengthy pieces composed using a traditional DJ arrangement of turntable, mixer and sampler - with the only sound source used (as the title might imply) being a feedback loop created by this set-up. The original composition was produced for - and broadcast on - Resonance Extra (the online platform for London-based art-radio station ResonanceFM) in May 2016; the accompanying piece was composed specifically for this cassette release, using the same set-up, in the early months of 2020. We expect this to be ready in early April - more information soon.

ORPHAN «YIJODA» 05.07.19

We are very proud to finally announce the release of «Yijoda» by South East London-based producer Orphan. Consisting of nine tracks clocking in at just over 40 minutes, this album takes us on an unsettling yet beautiful journey through bleak and harsh aural landscapes. A rave party backwards, with a Tyneside twist. Press release to be found here. See below for a video by Kevin Barthélemy for the track «Despair System».

PETER COYTE «NOW» 15.04.19
Lovely new release from Peter Coyte, his second for Impeka following 2017's excellent «Crack & Murmur», and part of an on-going series issuing his sound installation work on cassette. «Now» consists of two binaural compositions of field recordings taken in and around Hornsey Town Hall, North London, which were originally presented as a six speaker installation at the (sadly) now-defunct Ply Gallery in Semptember 2016. The installation pieces were re-mixed and edited for the cassette format between February and March 2019. A press release can be found here.
This release is dedicated to the loving memory of Paul Berry.