ICA Music: Wysing Polyphonic Record Launch

Artist biographies

• Ectopia

  Ectopia have been together since 2011, and use words, cello and synthesisers in their music. They are Adam Christensen, Jack Brennan and Viki Steiri. Previous works have included sound-tracking Jack Smith’s experimental film Normal Love (1963) and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928).

• N-Prolenta

  N-Prolenta is a producer, writer, multimedia artist and classically-trained string player whose work has been described as being on the cutting vanguard of experimental electronic music. They've worked with the likes of serpentwithfeet, PTP, NON Worldwide, and Halcyon Veil and have been featured in publications like The Wire, Art in America, and The Fader. Coming through a wide-ranging palate of sonic influences—spanning trap music and new age soundscapes, to the mutated club sounds of late, to trance, soul, darkwave and lyric poem—Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana's work through the N-Prolenta project erects tapestries of sound that are as dissonantly idiosyncratic and abrasive as they are rapturously gentle and apparative.

• SIREN

  SIREN is a collective that started a year ago in London, with the purpose of creating a space for those under-represented in dance music on lineups and in crowds. Their parties, zines and radio shows aim to be musical and political platforms for women & non-binary people, as well as a space to critique current trends within electronic music and create their own alternatives. They are not a DJ collective but many of  them do DJ, and focus on the exploring the broadest sense of techno – from electro to minimal, acid to breakbeat.

• xname

  xname is Eleonora Oreggia, a London based conceptual electronic artist from Milan who makes performances and interactive installations. Her live compositions transform light and other electromagnetic frequencies in sound waves through self-built synthesizers and complex semi-chaotic machines.