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Distribution of Power: A Synth Workshop with Zara Truss-Giles and Laima Leyton
Institute of Contemporary Arts

Artists Rebekah Alero and Zara Truss-Giles invite you to an evening of modular and hardware synthesis exploration. Together Ru and Zara have been experimenting and workshopping ideas and probabilities combining research, the voice, memory and video archives with synths. 

Update: Rebekah is no longer able to present this session, so special guest Laima Leyton has been invited to co-lead. Zara has recently collaborated with Laima Leyton on a group show exhibition "Mothering" at Kupfer Project.

This is an invitation to join in on the experiments, especially if you're curious to learn how synthesisers sound and behave. What will your synth sound like in a different set up? This is a place to play, listen and take away any knowledge relevant to you or your practice.

The Young ICA Network events are aimed at individuals between the ages of 16 – 25 living in Westminster, but young people from all boroughs are welcome.
Zara Truss-Giles is a cross-disciplinary artist and artist producer living in London where they have carved a name for themselves as a DJ, club night promoter, producer and dancer. Their personal practice is rooted in the hidden and untold histories of individuals and community movements, through extensive research projects and conversations with those with living memories, stories and experiences. Zara has worked for Warp Records and Somerset House Studios, and has produced for artists Thomas J. Price, Larry Achiampong, Alexis Blake and Otolith Group.

Laima Leyton (b. 1977) is a Brazilian artist currently based in London, U.K. Her practice fuses music, performance and domestication. Throughout her work, sounds are used as a tool to tell unique stories that include elements of audience interaction. Leyton uses questions and actions to create a connection between herself, the audience and sound. This method is common to her works and collaborations with other artists. Leyton's residency at Gasworks linked migrant communities to the memory of sounds. Leyton has received a fellowship from the charity In Place of War and is represented by Richard Saulton Gallery (London). For her most recent project, Leyton created sound works in response to the writings of philosopher Hannah Arendt, presented as a series of 8 exhibitions titled 'On Hannah Arendt'. Leyton is also a mother, a music producer and part of the Belgian band Soulwax.

Rebekah Alero is a Sound Artist and Composer. Their work focuses on improvisation, extended techniques and electronic music, as well as the use of field recordings/found sounds for more textural sonic narratives. Rebekah is also a bass guitar player which they sometimes brings into other parts of their sound set up. Rebekah has a strong interest in using synthesisers in recorded and live performance with a mixture of analog synths and synths made in DAWS and MAX/MSP.
 
Ticket information
  • All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
  • For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student and pensioner) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Free to attend. Booking required.

This workshop runs from 6 – 8pm in the ICA Studio. 

The Studio is wheelchair accessible; however, accessible toilets are located in the building next door. 

Please email us for questions or for access arrangements.

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