Cherry Seraph, Artists’ Child and Helen Papaioannou have all taken inspiration from the ideas and legacy of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram, celebrating her 100th anniversary in their individual ways using laptop, modular synth and cassette tapes.

All three will be performing their pieces in the Cubby Broccoli Cinema in the National Science and Media Museum, as part of the Make Some Noise! day of sonic activities during British Science Week.

Helen Papaioannou:

Inspired by the format of Daphne Oram’s Electronic Sound Patterns (1962), Helen Papaioannou performs a piece with four tape cassette players, based on Oram’s four categories of sound experiments on the album. While Oram’s album was an example of her artistry with multiple reel-to-reel tape recorders, Helen explores the brief with another form of tape technology in the form of cassette loops and live layering of cassette players. Helen’s performance inhabits an altogether different soundworld, drawing from sounds and patterns influenced by electronic dance music, but with an approach that chimes with Oram’s somewhat stark approach to Electronic Sound Patterns.

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Antidote - 3 November 24 

Ex-Easter Island Head

quartet composing and performing music for prepared electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. "Free flowing genius" – The Guardian

Kar Pouzi 

Helen Papaioannou's baritone saxophone & electronics meld into stark, playful and unrelenting performances. 

ADRA

Andy Abbott’s ambient solo project launching his ‘Music for Psychiatric Wards’ album.

https://www.victoriatheatre.co.uk/whats-on/antidote-November

Springing from Osaka, Japan’s cultural centre and historical heart, comes HYPER GAL, a two-piece band consisting of visual artist Koharu Ishida on vocals and noise artist Kurumi Kadoya on drums. The minimalist duo make maximum impact – stripping music down beyond the bare essentials, to create shimmering, no wave pop from blastbeat drums, glittery keyboard loops and ethereal bubblegum vocals – laced with velvet and firecrackers.

Kar Pouzi: Helen Papaioannou’s solo project melds baritone saxophone & electronics into singular, all-consuming textures which move between thunderous, fractured beats, ecstatic drones and minimalistic, evolving repetitions. Heavy, playful, unrelenting.

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TOUGH SELL presents a typically eclectic lineup uniting the worlds of experimental music and contemporary performance. Choreographer Lorea Burge investigates the moving body as musical instrument in the UK premiere (!) of her solo dance work 'B Field', while Kar Pouzi (composer and musician Helen Papaioannou) engages in a precarious relationship between human and machine, and performance duo Emergency Chorus explores the simple potency of language and repetition.

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Event info: https://wharfchambers.org/event/kar-pouzi-tristwch-y-fenywod-djs/

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Jack Callahan, Jeff Witscher & Nick Malkin

Kar Pouzi (Helen Papaioannou)

Kieron Piercy

8pm at BEAM

MAGINOT (Romain Perrot [Vomir, Trou aux Rats] and Paul Hegarty [Safe, Power Acoustics])

KAR POUZI (Helen Papaioannou)

MICHAEL BARTHEL

7.30pm, Cafe Oto

MAGINOT (Romain Perrot [Vomir, Trou aux Rats] and Paul Hegarty [Safe, Power Acoustics])

KAR POUZI (Helen Papaioannou)

MICHAEL BARTHEL

VOMIR (Romain Perrot)

22nd July Kobo Chika, Tokyo.

Noriko Okaku and Helen Papaioannou perform That Long Moonless Chase + artists’ talk with Naok Fujimoto. Event link

Thank you to Help Musicians & Daiwa Foundation for supporting our events!

17th July Monade Contemporary, Kyoto

Noriko Okaku & Helen Papaioannou present their recent collaborative project and lead a workshop based on their audio-visual piece That Long Moonless Chase and their week’s residency at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. We’re really happy to be hosted by this unique venue in Kyoto.

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16th July UrBANGUILD, Kyoto

Leg 2 of our tour in Japan!

That Long Moonless Chase + Noriko Okaku showreel + Kar Pouzi (Helen Papaioannou solo)

Noriko & I can’t wait to bring That Long Moonless Chase to its second home of Kyoto! The piece is based on experiences of the Gabriel Hounds in Sheffield and the water weeping ginkgo tree of Kyoto, so it’s extra special for us to perform here. Event link

Thank you to Help Musicians & Daiwa Foundation for supporting our live events.

STRIDENT NIGHTS PRESENTS:

The first ever HATCH headliners Gum Takes Tooth return to our sweaty bosom. Fresh of the press with a brand new album care of the ever-excellent Wrong Speed Records - 'Recovery Position'
https://gumtakestooth.bandcamp.com/album/recovery-position
Bangin bangers will abound.

Support comes in the skronkingly strident shape of Kar Pouzi
https://dontdronealone.bandcamp.com/album/red-sprite

And a special bilateral reimagining of the good ol' days from our good ol' Death Rays of Ardilla. Something in the vein of:
https://soundcloud.com/death-rays

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Helen Papaioannou & Noriko Okaku perform their live animation & music piece That Long Moonless Chase / その長い月のない追跡. Event link

The work centres around two folk tales, one from Sheffield and one from Kyoto, which the artists looped through online translation engines, propagating new iterations of the original texts, resulting in a bizarre & spectacular audiovisual performance. Read more here.

QWAK club is a carefully curated night from The Cube Microplex, Bristol, bringing eclectic sounds, visuals and performance together with a fun and inclusive atmosphere.

The third in the Digital Redux series of synchronized live performances in Wroclaw and London. 

A live stream of the event will be available on the  HOMEPAGE and on their Vimeo channel (@wrocenter). 

Programme: 

WRO Art Center: Rafał Zapała – Scrolling to Zero 

Watermans: Noriko Okaku & Helen Papaioannou – That Long Moonless Chase / その長い月のない追跡. Event link

That Long Moonless Chase centres around two folk tales, one from Sheffield and one from Kyoto, which the artists looped through online translation engines, propagating new iterations of the original texts, resulting in a bizarre & spectacular audiovisual performance. Read more here.

WRO Art Center: zapała | SCROLLING TO ZERO >>(0) performed by Lilianna Krych for organ, electronics and audience chanting 

The composition is a collective sound meditation, a sound ritual for organ, electronics and audience’s voices, led by a digital avatar. 

Hosted by Utyske

Poundy, stompy, droney, skronky; Kar Pouzi is Helen Papaioannou's solo project of baritone sax & electronics. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1141352233170577

Hosted by Bergen Improklubb Konserterie

Poundy, stompy, droney, skronky; Kar Pouzi is Helen Papaioannou's solo project of baritone sax & electronics. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/496162062441515/

Lyn Hodnett, Helen Papaioannou & Gill Whiteley

Prepare for a spontaneous kinetic performance as Helling Nelly play with an array of objects, materials and instruments, including trumpet, cello, baritone sax, hurdy-gurdy, chapel harmonium, scissors, tape, cardboard boxes and sculptural trails of paper. Warning: things could get messy!

Noriko Okaku & Helen Papaioannou bring their AV collaboration ‘That Long Moonless Chase’ to Cafe Oto.

PLUS improvised music from Yoshino Shigiahara (Yama Warashi), Agathe Max (KURO, Mésange, Ofield) & Helen Papaioannou.

In a mash-up of sinister folk-horror and fantastical mythical imagery, That Long Moonless Chase / その長い月のない追跡 is a surreal audio-visual performance based on two folkloric legends from Sheffield and Kyoto. The performance is a collaboration between animator Noriko Okaku (JP/UK) and composer/performer Helen Papaioannou (UK), in a mixed-media animation with baritone sax and electronics, including sound design from Başar Ünder (TR).

Event link: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/that-long-moonless-chase/

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HELEN PAPAIOANNOU & NORIKO OKAKU: THAT LONG MOONLESS CHASE

Audiovisual teamup from experimental saxophonist and electornic musician Helen (Beauty Pagaent, Kar Pouzi) and visual artist Noriko rustling up live collaged visuals and accompanying musics

ALICE

Swiss trio singing odd singsongy lurchy little numbers in odd places

D GLARE

Another feather in the now bird-resembling cap of Dom Clare (Chrononautz, Declared Sound etc). Evermorphing experiments in electronic processing of rhythmic and frenetic music into hyper-dense, conceptually focused and occassionally minimal errr stuff.

FRACTAL VAMPIRES

New Leeds project using decayed tape and bits and pieces of post-rock lying about to invoke natural somethings and primeval or-others

Noriko Okaku & Helen Papaioannou perform their audiovisual collaboration That Long Moonless Chase at Supernormal Festival.

https://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/programme

See here for event info & here for tickets!

In a mash-up of sinister folk-horror and fantastical mythical imagery, That Long Moonless Chase / その長い月のない追跡 is a surreal audio-visual performance based on two folkloric legends from Sheffield and Kyoto. The performance is a collaboration between animator Noriko Okaku and musician Helen Papaioannou, in a mixed-media animation with baritone sax and electronics, including sound design from Başar Ünder.

Wild Cinema is an experimental project from Felt Beak (est. 2011) making improvised scores to new and unseen film. Audience members are invited to either take part in performances or provide film clips, or both. For this instance of Wild Cinema improvised scores will be performed by Felt Beak veterans Impossibility Knox (Odie Ji Ghast & Gwilly Edmondez) plus surprise-emergent guests. For anyone wishing to co-score a video microphones and some Casio keyboards will be available; anyone wishing to have a film scored live (max. 5 mins) please send in advance to militantseed@hotmail.com

https://feltbeak.bandcamp.com

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Gaute Granli

'Norwegian musican Gaute Granli used to play guitar and shout in Skadne Krek and Freddy The Dyke. Now he focuses mainly on his solo project where he explores a range of abstract and bizarre territories. He combines chanting, guitar, a range of effects with analog sampling and creates a dark and industrial sound. The music is freely improvised as well as composed.' Granli appears to inhabit the sort of warped outsider dystopia that folks like Chrome, Alan Vega, Brainbombs and German Shepards made so alluring.

https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/album/blusens-fasong

Horacio Pollard

"Pollard is one of the few creative people on the globe (Romain Perrot aka Vomir is another) who understands that “good taste” is the very death of art, and as such he needs to be cherished like a Siberian Tiger, albeit one whose pelt is made from artificial dayglo blue fur."  Ed Pinsent,The Sound Projector. Horacio's music has been released on Drid Machine - home to bands like Noxagt, No Balls and Sightings.

https://bandcamp.com/tag/horacio-pollard

Kar Pouzi

Poundy, stompy, droney, skronky. Kar Pouzi is Sheffield-based Helen Papaioannou's solo project of baritone sax & electronics. 

https://dontdronealone.bandcamp.com/album/red-sprite

Gaute Granli The Norwegian wunderking of demented psychedelic song (de)structure

Horacio Pollard Absurd, entertaining and challenging fun-charged primitive patterns and sounds

New tunes from Kar Pouzi Pummelling sax and live electronics - short sharp gut punches of minimal skronk from Helen Papaioannou

Plan Pony First live performance, circuit bent drum machines and samplers meet live percussion for fun, friendship and maybe more

£5

See here for event info.

FRIDAY 27/05/22 - ELECTRIC SOUP PRESENTS

Electric Soup returns for 2022 for a special night of ambient electronic soundscapes at Ffotogallery. Featuring a mixture of Welsh electronic audiotekts and welcoming invited guests Helen Papaionnou and Noriko Okaku who will be performing a special screening of 'That Long Moonless Chase / その長い月のない追跡'. See here for tickets!

This is part of MADE UP Festival - three days of music, poetry and spectacular visuals with guest curators Teddy Hunter, and Finn Pelling giving each day a different flavour.

The first iteration of That Long Moonless Chase work was commissioned and supported by the British Council and Sensoria, with research support from Sheffield Hallam University's CCMS.

“2022 brings a new and exciting community-driven performance series. The first of which invites composer and performer Helen Papaioannou back to Newcastle to curate a night of live music, featuring an original performance she has created with Better Days, who are a local user-led charity of adults with learning disabilities. Alongside Helen and Better Days, there will be some very special invited performances, as outlined below, including the resurrection of Blue Rinse's legendary and mythical Sax Trio (this time featuring Faye MacCalman, Rebecca Jennings, and Helen Papaioannou), as well as a truly remarkable duo of Tracey West and Mark William Barfoot on Sacred Gong and Handpan. A very special evening in store.

Better Days is a user-led organisation of adults with learning disabilities who consider the barriers to going out and about in the North East and then come up with projects to address those barriers. They have been working on multiple creative music projects over the past few years, including recently recording their first album (which we will be playing also on the night) and this is the next step in their musical careers.

Helen Papaioannou is a composer and performer based in Sheffield, UK. For this mini-residency, Helen will be bringing her experience, skills, and knowledge to create a truly unique performance with the local charity Better Days.”

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-rinse-with-helen-papaioannou-better-days-and-guests-tickets-261108060237?fbclid=IwAR0OU60lxX9vioJyq2e5Lj0k3eog-O9xlnM9sUX7Ji2gmxWgxMMiZ6WLles

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blue-rinse-with-helen-papaioannou-better-days-and-guests-tickets-261108060237?fbclid=IwAR0OU60lxX9vioJyq2e5Lj0k3eog-O9xlnM9sUX7Ji2gmxWgxMMiZ6WLles

A free evening of wild music - from shuddering baritone saxiphone through to electronically augmented harp. This is an expanded version of our New Music Ensemble performances at the University, and we'll be showcasing some student performances of contemporary peices too.

FEATURING:

Kar Pouzi

In tides of pulses, ecstatic drones and skronking sax, Kar Pouzi intertwines baritone saxophone with synthesizers and electronics.

Debut EP release Red Sprite revels in incessant repetitions that converge and contrast with the sounds of analogue synths.

https://www.helenpapaioannou.com/kar-pouzi

Benjamin Jackson and Sanyukta Srivatsa (voice and cello)

Manon McCoy and Johnny FK (Harp & Electronics)

2/3rds of Shivelights bring a stunning combination of harp and electronics.

Plus Solo pieces from University of Sheffield Department of Music MA students