Monthly Servings of Sound at Lyric’s Underground, Maylands
Tuesday March 10,  7-10pm
Lyric’s Underground Maylands
Tickets $5 – $15 at the door (WAAPA/UWA Music Students $5)

ARTISTS

Ariana van Gelder (CU/USA)
Furchick
Filth Goddess

Soup Nights return for 2020 to Lyric’s Underground (Lyric Lane) Maylands. Featuring 4  artists who find common ground in durational sound and performance art and performative experimentation.

Cuban American sound artist Ariana van Gelder performs on Australian shores for the first time. Her live shows revolve around ever-building vocal loops. Her voice glides and glistens through ten octaves, guiding the listener across a landscape that dives into rich, rumbling waves of bass and near-silent sub-bass. Conceptually, her creations explore the tenuous intimacy between artist, audience, and medium.
Furchick  (Claire Pannell) is an experimental musician focusing on  noise and sound art who incorporates science into her creations, taking her sounds from the natural vibrations created from everyday objects and the environment.
Filth Goddess summons the seething sound of light and dark: the loud, the quiet; the pure, the profane. They make a sacred union of harmonium and string FX, conjuring sonic explorations that both slay and soothe.

Listen Here
Ariana van Gelder
Furchick
Filth Goddess

About the Artists:
Ariana van Gelder:
Ariana van Gelder is a Cuban-American sound, installation, and performance artist specializing in viscerally immersive, deeply penetrative, sonic experiences. Conceptually, her creations explore the tenuous intimacy between artist, audience, and medium.

From 2006 until today, van Gelder has built a career that centers on semi-improvised performances and recordings, elaborate stage shows, multimedia installations, collaborations, and commissioned works. These include live-scoring, custom sound environments, and scores for video, sculpture, interactive virtual works, live acts, and all manner of physical spaces—both inside and out.
As a composer with a background in theoretical physics, van Gelder has a keen interest in creating, defining, and formulating space for the body through sound. In its most recent incarnation, van Gelder’s live sonic practice reaches through the ether as if extending itself to envelop the listener in an embrace from within. Revolving around ever-building vocal loops, her voice glides and glistens through ten octaves, guiding the listener across a landscape that dives into rich, rumbling waves of bass and near-silent sub-bass. She also composes and occasionally performs with multi-channel systems, piano, prepared violin, bowed glockenspiel, field recordings, pressure-driven Mylar sculpture, and just about anything else that makes sound.
An avid artist, van Gelder has performed and contributed to exhibitions in New York City, Miami, Taipei, Finland, Sri Lanka, and Poland and at all manner of venues from museums, galleries, universities, and international biennales, to traditional stages, private events, and surprise DIY/guerilla spaces.
You can currently catch her appearances in and around Asia Pacific and Taiwan, her home away from her New York City home.

Furchick:
Dr Claire Pannell aka Furchick is an internationally recognised and touring experimental musician focusing on  noise and sound art who incorporates science into her creations, taking her sounds from the natural vibrations created from everyday objects and the environment. Most of her extensive catalogue of work can be found on her website  https://furchick.com. She performs regularly and has a prolific catalogue of music making dating back to 1987. In 2017 she was awarded a WAMI for best experimental musician, and in 2015 she was named as one of the best noise artists in the world in the NYC’s Village Voice. During the late nineties she played the drums and toured the USA with Gerard Cosloy’s (Matador Records) improv noise project Air Traffic Controllers when she lived in New York City. In the late eighties to mid nineties she lived in New Zealand, coordinated a music centre (label, venue, rehearsal space, zine, recording studio) and played in several bands that frequently toured New Zealand.  Claire has created sound designs for DAADA/Tracksuit Dance Company in Perth and Jukstapoz Dance Company in Greece. Claire is also an educator and her specialist skill is used in workshops that incorporate arts with science. She recently presented an improvisation workshop for WAM for the Girls Rock WA in 2019. She also delivered music workshops for the Audacious Festival in Christchurch and has been an ambassador for Propel Arts/KickstArt Festival.

Filth Goddess:
FILTH GODDESS summons the seething sound of light and dark: the loud, the quiet; the pure, the profane. They make a sacred union of harmonium and string FX, conjuring sonic explorations that both slay and soothe.