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‘If suffering purifies the soul / then I’m as pure as one could hope

A beauty bordering on the obscene…’

Join multi-disciplilary artist Nwando Ebizie and enter a liminal space for a sonic exploration of myth, fairytale and archetypes. A playground of dream soundscapes where influences of experimental dance meet Klezmer, new music meets romantic ballad. The poetry of British Sign Language is danced to create visual music and the space vibrates to create an analogous haptic experience.

This is a multi-sensory theatrical music experience, oscillating from romantic songs to nightmarish visions, intimate reverie and lucid horror.

The music/English text/theatrical BSL was created symbiotically in order to give multiple possibilities for access and understanding whilst creating a unique art-music experience. 

Created, directed and composed by Nwando Ebizie, co-produced by Atelier Nwando and London Sinfonietta and supported by Southbank Centre - ‘Fall and then Rise on a Soft Winter’s morning’ is a multi-sensory immersive orchestral/live art experience at Colour Factory (London, UK) happening on 15th Nov 2023 and it is part of Nwando’s approach in creating Accessibility as Innovative Creativity and dismantling and inverting entrenched structural prejudices.

There will be two time slots - people can attend at 7 pm or at 9 pm and the show is one hour long

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Access information:

This takes place in Colour Factory, a nightclub which aims for inclusivity and diversity

The piece lasts for one hour. This is a relaxed performance

There are 3 parts to the music with roughly 10 minutes break in between each one

In the breaks you will be offered warm herbal drinks and popcorn 

The audience is invited to explore the immersive environment

You can choose to sit/lie on platforms that vibrate with the music - this is an additional idea to give Deaf people a sense of the music, however hearing people have found this to be relaxing as well

You can choose to sit on beanbags, chairs or stand

You can feel free to move at anytime

There is step-free access to the space

Latecomers are permitted

The performance includes music, captions, a theatrical BSL performance, spoken word

Each show is the same - one ticket covers one show

Lighting: 

There are no flashing lights

There is video projected onto giant balloons that you can watch that contains Chisato's signing and captions

Nwando will be performing a solo version of her 2022 album The Swan at She Makes Noise 2023 in Madrid. The festival invites an audience to discover without prejudice the work done by female artists and non-binary identities in electronic and experimental music, as well as in contemporary audiovisuals. The programming continues - in line with previous editions - with an ecofeminist approach, addressing other forms of thinking, listening, learning and dancing.

This 2023, the festival also focuses on artists who bring their magic from Latin America , as well as others from Nigeria, Greece, Spain and the United Kingdom .

Nwando will be performing at 9pm on 19/10

Tickets available here

19.00

26.08.23

Centre for Contemporary arts, Glasgow. Tickets are on sale cca-glasgow.com  Pay what you can from £0 to £8

Broadcast live on 87.9FM in the Glasgow area and online at radiophrenia.scot

The Great Unravelling

Two artists - Nwando Ebizie and Tom Richards come together and move apart - entangling themselves and their idiosyncratic polymathic practices (including Black Atlantic ritual cultures, minimalism, formalism, rave cultures, analogue synthesis and machine building, performance art, neurodivergent led sensory design, neurophenomenology)  and unraveling again - revealing the core of a constantly expanding Venn diagram. A multisensory, psychedelic, polyrhythmic mythic feast of movement, light, poetry and sound unfolds and you are invited into this liminal space for a spiraling cyclic ritual.

Soprano Juliet Fraser returns to City with a programme featuring Alvin Lucier's pioneering work for female voice and pure wave oscillators alongside two brand-new works that respond to the writings of American marine biologist and environmentalist Rachel Carson.

Inspired by Carson's 'Sea Trilogy', Nwando Ebizie enters the world of deep time to draw parallels between the personal and the cosmic; Newton Armstrong explores the image of a constant underwater 'snowfall' of sediment that descends gradually to intensely dark depths, forming a swirling, descending murmuration of diversely particulate matter.

New works commissioned with the generous support of Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants, PRS Foundation's Open Fund & RVW Trust.

‘I Seduce’ is the first single taken from Nwando’s forthcoming debut album, The Swan, due to be released later this year with Accidental Records. Accompanied by a kaleidoscopic visual by Marta Vorontsova, the single combines Chor chants, Cuban drums, and a jazz-inspired horn line, forging inspired connections between traditional Cuban Haitian, and contemporary sounds, with Nwando’s signature experimental twist. 

Listen here.

Invisible Summer is a multimedia play for your inbox from Eve Leigh, Rachel Bagshaw and the artists who created Midnight Movie which premiered at the Royal Court in November 2019.

It was designed so that each audience member, depending on their mode of communication, receives a different theatrical experience. It creatively combined written text, Spoken English, BSL, captioning, and audio description. It was been designed with audiences with visual impairments, and D/deaf audiences who use BSL, and D/deaf audiences who read captions, in mind.

Nwando was commissioned to create the sound design. Watch/Listen to the piece here.