KMRU with Nick Verstand, Mareike Bode - As Nature / Joy Guidry - Five Prayers in Five Movements / Carrier - Corrupt Patterns

As Nature continues the ongoing collaboration between sound artist KMRU and visual artist Nick Verstand. Moving between tranquil silences and seismic intensity, the work explores electromagnetic sound spectra through field recordings, drones, noise and evolving harmonic structures. Field recordings blur the boundaries between familiarity and abstraction, developing into emergent harmonics and extended rhythms within KMRU’s expansive soundscapes. Responding to these sonic forms, Verstand creates a visual composition of lightweight fabrics animated by airflow, LEDs and smoke. An olfactory element developed in collaboration with scent artist Mareike Bode further expands the work’s sensory dimensions, introducing a subtle tension between nature and electricity. Together, sound, image, movement, and scent create an immersive environment in which natural forces and technology remain in constant dialogue.

Five Prayers in Five Movements marks Joy Guidry’s turn from free jazz towards a more meditative, ambient realm. Conceived as an intuitive convergence of sound, spirit and radical self-expression, the work explores vulnerability, introspection and liberation through a boundary-pushing practise rooted in Black sonic traditions. Performed for bassoon, voice and electronics, it combines low synthesiser sounds and warm electronic textures, nodding to Guidry’s lived experience as a Black trans woman from the American South.

In Corrupt Patterns, British artist Guy Alexander Brewer (Carrier) employs live resampling, physical modelling and found sound to investigate the internal structure of sonic material. Working directly with his source material, he magnifies its physical properties, revealing rhythmic behaviours and textures that often remain imperceptible. Fragments are isolated, recontextualised and continuously transformed, allowing patterns to mutate and reassemble in real time. Operating as an open system rather than a fixed composition, the work explores the tension between control and entropy as acts of resampling simultaneously generate and destabilise the material from which they emerge. Rooted in the spatial and physical language of UK soundsystem culture, each site-specific performance develops in response to its acoustic surroundings and the contingencies of the moment.