Apotome Artist Takeover – Slikback

26th Jan 2021 26th Jan 2021 22:00 22:30

Slikback »Ritual«

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  • Khyam Allami

    IQ/UK

    Khyam Allami is an Iraqi-British multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, researcher and founder of Nawa Recordings. Primarily an Oud player, his artistic research focuses on the development of contemporary and experimental practice based on the fundamentals of Arabic music, with a focus on tuning and microtonality.

  • Sonia Calico

    TW

    DJ/Producer Sonia Calico has adeptly maneuvered through Taiwan’s club scene over the last couple of years, ambitiously bringing ballroom, footwork, and global bass sounds into new contexts.

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    Slikback takes over the Apotome generative microtonal music environment. The new works is created and performed in a single take using Apotome from his home studios in Kampala.

    Apotome is a browser-based transcultural generative music system focused on using microtonal tuning systems and their subsets (scales/modes). Resulting from artist and scholar Khyam Allami's current PhD research and his in-depth collaboration with Counterpoint, the creative studio run by Tero Parviainen and Samuel Diggins, the application is an effort to highlight the cultural asymmetries and biases inherent in modern music-making tools, alongside their interconnected web of musical, educational, cultural, social, and political ramifications.

    Slikback will create a work inspired by his tribe’s traditional rituals. Rhythms and melodies focus on trance states and purging, states that the artist dips into himself while recording distorted vocals and chants. The work, made entirely on Apotome, is filmed and edited by the artist.

    Supported by the DAAD Arts & Media Programme.