Nicolas Jaar to Premiere New Venture AEAEA at Le Guess Who? Competition 2019
Le Guess Who?, the experimental competition in Utrecht, Netherlands, has introduced its full lineup for this 12 months’s version. Deerhoof, Aldous Harding, Quelle Chris, Woman Band, and extra will carry out on the 2019 fest. Le Guess Who? may even host the debut efficiency from AEAEA—a brand new venture from Nicolas Jaar and New York composer Patrick Higgins. The competition, which takes place November 7-10, may even characteristic occasions curated by artists like Jenny Hval, Moon Duo, the Bug, and others. Try the poster for Le Guess Who? 2019 beneath.
The web site for Le Guess Who? presents the next description of AEAEA:
AEAEA is the brand new duo from composers and performers Patrick Higgins and
Nicolas Jaar. Using instrumental efficiency and reside digital
resampling, the purpose of the group is to develop immersive musical
environments—sonorous desert islands that each react to, and redevelop
in opposition to, the reside compositions. Each Higgins and Jaar shall be utilizing
pc processes to resample and reprocess one another’s devices
in actual time, unfolding a brand new imaginative and prescient of contemporary ritual music and
electro-acoustic experimentation.
Le Guess Who? is proud to current the premiere of this new venture by
two of immediately’s most acclaimed musical visionaries and explorers. The
title AEAEA derives from the legendary Greek island of Circe, the place
Homer’s Odysseus was trapped with out time or historical past.
Nicolas Jaar’s most up-to-date studio album below his personal title was 2016’s Sirens. Final 12 months, he shared a venture below the pseudonym A.A.L (Towards All Logic). Additionally in 2018, Jaar’s Different Folks label launched Patrick Higgins’ album File.