DESCRIPTION:
"Intonarumori" - Poulomi Desai of Usurp performing at the amazing Colour Out of Space Festival, joined in an impromptu improvisation by Lorah Pierre, an artist who makes her own sound hardware and instruments. Poulomi plays her unique modified sitar, embracing elements of chance, challenge and subversion, in a industrial, noise explosion. Her prepared / bowed sitar is augmented with modified cassette decks playing field recordings, circuit bent toys, distortion pedals, opti-kinetic instruments, kitchen knives, axes and massage tools Her sitar is the primary basis for sonic improvisation and exploration -- a conscious response and reaction to the idea of 'authenticity'. Seeking to break the rules and expectations of how a 'sacred' instrument should be played, she questions the strictures upon the player, the guru-shishya approach and the assumptions made upon the identity of the player herself, and affirms the idea of 'Noise' as protest (Russolo as opposed to Marinetti). Her noise art video "Experiments with Noise No 3 Vivarta" was also screened at the Sallis Benney Theatre as part of the "Open Colour" film festival.
See http://www.poulomidesai.tumblr.com for more info on her soundscapes and art projects.

Lorah Pierre is an artist whose practice explores the nature of 'event' through live working collaborations in physical and virtual spaces. Projects focus on experimentation across a number of disciplines - the recycling of materials, self-built hardware, hacking and bending, along with a DIY ethos allowing interactive installations and performances to develop out of temporal space. She has collaborated with scientists, performers and musicians. Pierre is the founder and curator of The Experimental Sounding Board, a live platform for collaboration between sonic and visual modes of improvisation. http://lorahpierre.tumblr.com

Full list of festival participants: Ilan Volkov, Maya Dunietz, Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro) & Reiko.A, Angela Sawyer, Dinosaurs With Horns, Alessandro Bosetti, Dieter Schnebel, Joachim Nordwall & Dan Froberg, Sons of God (Leif Elggren & Kent Tankred), DDAA, Richard Youngs & Luke Fowler & Neil Campbell Trio, Jooklo Duo, CM Hausswolff & Michael Esposito, Andy Guhl, Enzo Minarelli, Gen Ken Montgomery, Dan Melchior, Hans Clavin & GJ De Rook, SIndre Bjerga, Bridget Hayden, Makino Takashi, Gwilly Edmondez & THF Drenching & Posset, Dog Lady Island, Kiko C. Esseiva & Vincent de Roguin, Jennifer Walshe & Tomomi Adachi, Spoils & Relics with Karen Constance, Acrid Lactations, Acchiappashpirt, Woven Skull, Occult Hand, Usurper & Dora Doll, Skin Graft, Greg Kelley & Dylan Nyoukis, Andie Brown & Sharon Gal, Primate Arena, Fordell Research Unit, Kenny Millions & Rat Bastard, The Y Bend, Roman Nose, M.Stactor, Tom White, Ewa Justka, F Ampism, Psykick Dancehall, Derek Walmsley.

Colour Out of Space is a festival of experimental music and film. Since 2006 it has played host to some of the most visionary musicians, sound artists and filmmakers of the last forty years. COOS is run by Open Music a not for profit arts group based in Brighton and coordinated by Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance, Michael Sippings, Johannah Henderson, Duncan Harrison, Daniel Spicer, Melanie Absolon and sound technician Tim Wilton, together with the help and input of Brighton's wider community of musicians, artists and experimental enthusiasts.

Big thanks to Dylan Nyoukis, Michael Sippings, Lorah Pierre, all the participants and the wonderful tech crew inc. Sian and TIm.

© Poulomi Desai + Lorah Pierre 2013