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Always, Already There: Tremulous Frequencies

Future Sounds of the Black Atlantic

— ,Rehearsal Room 3, Milton Court
Shamica Ruddock wearing a black suit

A curated sound loop inspired by Édouard Glissant’s tremulous thought, Kodwo Eshun’s Sonic Fiction and Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism.

A pulse. A rupture. A breath held between worlds. Always, Already There gathers sound artists: Jessica Ekomane, Yara Mekawei, Ahmed Essyad, Shamica Ruddock, Cedrik Fermont and KMRU in a restless field of sound–where frequencies tremble, signals fracture and new forms emerge. 

These sound loops pull from the concepts of numerous intellectuals with the intention of asking what might happen when we stop trying to make everything fit. From Kodwo Eshun's Sonic Fiction, an approach that explores the generative possibilities of Afrofuturism to Édouard Glissant's tremulous thought, a philosophy rooted in a fluid and shifting way of understanding the world and Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism, which finds liberation in the glitch between body, gender and technology.

Here, sound can be imaginary, impossible and unfinished.  

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Always, Already There is the first UK edition of George Lewis’s Afrodiasporic Incubator project. Curated by vocalist and composer Elaine Mitchener, in partnership with Guildhall School of Music & Drama. It explores the radical, varied and richly experimental work of Afrodiasporic composers, past and present. 

Installation runs from 1pm – 7:15pm each day. A new 75 minute loop commences at the following times: 

1pm 

2.15pm 

3.30pm 

4.45pm 

6pm 

Last entry is at 7pm, with installation ending at 7:15pm

Produced by the Barbican in partnership with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Part of Always, Already There Weekender.

Always, Already There has received generous support from SHM Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and Trevor Fenwick & Jane Hindley. 

Barbican Classical Music Programme receives major support from Marcus Margulies and additional support In Memory of John Murray.

Programme

  • Ahmed Essyad   Sultane pt 2
  • Ahmed Essyad   Toubkal pt 1
  • Jessica Ekomane   Manifolds
  • Yara Mekawei   The Shrine
  • Shamica Ruddock   Event A
  • Shamica Ruddock   Event D
  • KMRU   Slowed Cities
  • Cedrik Fermont   Submerged signals

Ticket prices

Free admission
Event is free but ticketed

Biographies

Jessica Ekomane

Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Her performances, often quadraphonic, are characterized by their physical affect, seeking a cathartic effect through the interplay of rhythmic and tonal perception, and the tension between noise and melody. Her first LP Multivocal was released in 2019 via Important Records, stemming out of a project at Ars Electronica curated by Shu-Lea Chang and Matthew Füller. Since then, her work has been extensively presented in festivals, venues, contemporary art spaces and museums internationally such as Rewire, Berghain, Art Basel, Cafe OTO, KW, Hamburger Bahnhof, Reina Sofia, CTM and Venice Biennale. She released Manifolds in 2024 as a split LP with Laurel Halo on Portraits GRM / Shelter Press. She was one of the winners of the Villa Romana Prize 2023 in Florence and received one of the two ZKM Giga-Hertz production prizes that same year. She was a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme 2024-25.
 

 

 

Cedrik Fermont

Born in Lubumbashi, Cedrik Fermont is a Berlin-based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician,mastering engineer, author, radio host, curator and independent researcher. Since 1989, he hasworked across the fields of noise, electronic and electroacoustic music, sound art and freeimprovisation.He runs the label and platform Syrphe, whose main focus is on sound art, electronic music, freeimprovisation and electroacoustic music from Asia, Africa and Latin America as well as hispersonal projects.Cedrik works as a solo artist and in numerous collaborative projects and bands across severalcontinents. His tours and ongoing research have led him to perform and give talks in 72 countriesacross Eurasia, Africa and the Americas.He also composes music for sound installations, theatre and choreography.

Rehearsal Room 3, Milton Court

Location
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Address
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Silk St, London
EC2Y 9BH

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