This is a sponsored article on behalf of LightSounds.
A weekend of multisensory adventures takes place at Rich Mix this November — and you're invited along for the ride.
LightSounds is an international festival dedicated solely to audiovisual art. It's all about celebrating the medium as a standalone art form, rather than a derivative of either music or visual art. Concerts, installations, workshops and performances fuse together sound and vision in spectacular fashion, across a wide variety of mediums. Here, live improv meets live painting, ancient musical instruments meet video art, and lasers transform sound into light. There's even a chance to rediscover the magic of overhead projectors!
Following last year's inaugural edition of this Arts Council-sponsored festival, LightSounds returns to east London arts venue Rich Mix, 23-24 November. It's all organised by London-based Canadian pianist Cheslav Singh — who'll also perform at the festival — to showcase an incredible array of audiovisual artists from all over the world and give visitors the chance to get to grips with the medium themselves.
Lightsounds 2024 kicks off at 3pm on Saturday 23 November, with a workshop led by projection artist Blanca Regina in which you'll discover how sound can be transformed into light. After that, there's a talk with painter and performance artist Gwendolyn Kassenaar on how her synaesthesia (which allows her to see sounds) influences her artistic practice.
Stick around afterwards to see Kassenaar in action, as she live paints to the stylings of jass percussionist Jacek Buhl, firebrand violinist Jack Campbell, and experimental saxophonist Sue Lynch at the festival's opening concert. Their set is followed by two others — next up, festival organiser Cheslav Singh takes to the stage alongside experimental filmmaker Maike Zimmermann and musician Nihal Singh. Together, they present a first of its kind audiovisual performance bringing together live projections, joṛī (an ancient Indian drum), and prepared piano. The evening ends with audiovisual artist Doron Sadja using lasers to transform the sounds of percussionist Beibei Wang into light.
The festival doesn't slow down on the Sunday, either. Highlights on 24 November include hands-on workshops where you'll get to explore projection methods old and new; a talk with artist Maike Zimmermann; and another jam-packed concert to close the festival — this one featuring a neo-dadaist work by Dr Truna, a collab between Blanca Regina and field recordist Peter Cusack, and a minimalist audiovisual performance by Martin Messier.
Sounds/looks intriguing, doesn't it? See the full programme and get your tickets here. All events take place at The Stage, Rich Mix and must be booked separately.
LightSounds 2024, 23-24 November at The Stage, Rich Mix (Shoreditch). Book now.
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