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7.30-8.00pm: Ellie O’Neill (Carolan Room)

8.10-9.00pm: Thollem/ACVilla: Worlds In A Life (The Studio)

9.10-9.50pm: The Outside (Carolan Room)

10.00-11.00pm: Barker (The Studio)

CAROLAN ROOM

7.30-8.00pm: Ellie O’Neill

Ellie O’Neill is a songwriter, vocalist and recording artist from Co. Meath. Her work is tender, rich and original, and explores intimacy, loss, friendship and queerness. She is currently working on her debut album, and performing in a solo capacity regularly around Ireland and further afield. At the moment she is interested in the poems of Minnie Bruce Pratt, sea swimming, and laughing.

9.10-9.50pm: The Outside

The Outside is new collaborative project between musician/producer David Kitt and dj/sound artist Aoife O'Neill. Using field recordings recorded locally in Kerry as a starting point the pair stretch out in all manner of exciting electronic directions running the gamut from blissed-out ambient to futuristic club-ready bangers.

STUDIO

Thollem/ACVilla: Worlds In A Life: 8.10-9.00pm

Worlds In A Life is a new project by perpetually-touring collaborators, Thollem and ACVilla. The duo takes the audience on a real-time journey in eight movements by reassembling original audio and visual recordings, creating an experience that is simultaneously familiar and unlike anything else. This is the release concert for Worlds In A Life, Two on ESP-Disk'. The recording and performance utilize samples from Thollem's albums with Nels Cline, Terry Riley, William Parker, Pauline Oliveros, and Michael Wimberly as sound sources. "There are as many worlds in a life as there are lives in the world."

Barker: 10.00-11.00pm

As a musician, DJ and co-founder of the Leisure System label, Sam Barker has helped push the boundaries of dance music in Berlin, looking beyond the realm of 4/4 techno to explore left-field sound design and rhythmic complexity. His musical approach – both solo and in the duo Barker & Baumecker with longtime Panorama Bar resident nd_baumecker – unselfconsciously combines bass music tropes, breakbeat, dub and ambient elements while still maintaining a strong connection to the dancefloor.
This broad musical vision has not only guided Barker & Baumecker’s various EPs, LPs, and remixes for Ostgut Ton (most recently the 2016 LP Turns), but also Barker’s curatorial direction for Leisure System, which now boasts one of the longest club night residencies at Berghain. Having put out records by the likes of Dopplereffekt, as well early EPs by Objekt and Visionist, Barker has proudly operated on techno’s periphery – and, in the process, sought to shift its center. His EP Debiasing marked his solo debut release with Ostgut Ton, taking a hard look at the musical elements often considered necessary to maintain dancefloor momentum, offering four distinct, driving, hypnotic and unlikely dancefloor tools. His solo debut album Utility – out September 2019 on Ostgut Ton – is a playful but non-ironic musical approach to a whole spectrum of utilitarian and transhumanist ideas.
A classically trained musician, British-born and Berlin-based Barker is also an active instrument designer and builder who combines coding skills with analogue, electric and acoustic instrument construction under the name Voltek. Most recently he worked together with Underground Resistance’s Ray 7 on a sonic architectural exploration of empty factories in Detroit using self-programmed analogue percussion instruments.