IV12 Theodore Cale Schafer, Sydney Spann, Sholto Dobie & Shakeeb Abu Hamdan

IV12 Theodore Cale Schafer, Sydney Spann, Sholto Dobie

Shakeeb Abu Hamdan

in colaboration with in vitro

Theodore Cale Schafer

Theodore Cale Schafer is a musician. After a long history of producing cassettes on various labels and self-releasing audio files, Schafer has most recently released works including Trust (Students of Decay), Our Blood for .S (Daisart) and It's Not a Skill, It’s a Curse (Longform Editions). Schafer’s music often confronts the tropes of ambient, drone, and field recording music to arrive at his own style of concrete music — fusing elements of auto-biography, an open ambivalence to instrumentation, and self-reflexive composition structures. Informed by his work as an audio engineer, his music combines digitally sourced audio and manipulated self-recordings to create its own unique fidelity — equally informed by Playstation OSTs, modern classical composition, confessional narrative, and spoken word. Recently, he has collaborated with Natalia Panzer, Angelo Harmsworth, and Claire Rousay, participated in the Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music Festival at the Black Mountain College Museum, and curated the “Casualism” mix series with Retreat Radio in Malmö, Sweden.

https://daisart.bandcamp.com/album/our-blood-for-s

https://theodoreschafer.bandcamp.com/album/trust

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Sydney Spann

Sydney Spann, originally from Baltimore, MD, is a sound artist and musician based in New York. They work with synthesis, electronics, and voice to intervene within a personal archive of field recordings, culminating in studio compositions and live performances. Their recent LP “Sending Up A Spiral Of” was released with Recital and follows full-length albums on Reading Group and She Rocks! They have performed at the High Zero Festival of Experimental Free Improvised Music, Bar Laika by e-flux, Performance Space New York, Center for Performance Research, Cafe OTO, KM28, and other venues throughout the US. They were a 2022 Artist in Residence at ISSUE Project Room and hold an MFA in Music/Sound from Bard College.

https://sydneyspann.bandcamp.com/album/oceanic-e-l-m

https://recitalprogram.bandcamp.com/album/sending-up-a-spiral-of

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Sholto Dobie & Shakeeb Abu Hamdan

Shakeeb Abu Hamdan is an artist, musician and recording/sound engineer living in Beirut, Lebanon. His sound-based work includes live performances, experimental composition and sound for film. He has been actively involved in the DIY music communities in the UK, playing in various experimental punk bands and running Ouse, a recording studio and label, the C&R collective/zine and organising Total Inertia, an experimental music festival in Leeds.

Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He uses loose structures and an array of sound-sources including home-made organs and hurdy gurdy. His performances are personal and intuitive, often coming across as delicate, evocative, and absurd.

Since 2020, the duo has been collaborating on remote and live performances. Their work centres around the use of drums, hurdy gurdy, self-made organs, collected metals, bells and cymbals which they augment and amplify with surface transducers, microphones, pitch modulation, cheap looping megaphones and other lo-tech electronics. This resulted in a release on Cafe OTO’s TakuRoku imprint in 2020 and was issued as a cassette by Steep Gloss the following year.

https://steepgloss.bandcamp.com/album/its-worse

https://thanettapecentre.bandcamp.com/album/nevery

https://themarkharwood.bandcamp.com/album/the-blue-horse

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Entrance: €12 (+ €1 fee)

*All additional ticket revenue will be donated to the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (https://pmrs.ps).