Our weekly event at Balabam in Seven Sisters, with three amazing live acts every Tuesday in the beautiful Balabam, top sound and lights on stage, and delicious food on site.

GARANCE LOUIS

Garance Louis. Extrovert, eccentric composer, singer and accordionist from Perpignan, who finds a fresh and new way of interpreting the French Chanson in an alternative and tropical way. Garance has appeared in the bars and street corners of her adoptive London , always surrounded by the most curiously talented musicians she can find.  

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CRØM/LUS

CRØM/LUS is a music project created by London based musician / artist Poppy Edwards. Her debut EP : Altered States comprises of journeys into the abstract, addressing out of body experiences, auras and interstitial moments. Her writing and producing mixes her background in film with sounds and songs that play with fragmented vocals, spacious synth sound design, saxophone trails, and sampled looping paths.

Poppy Edwards: Lyrics, Writer/ Co-producer (vocals, piano, alto sax) John Tonks: Writer/Co-producer Georgios Cherouvim: Video Camera: Charly Feldman, Lukas Hyrman, Alex Seltzer Track available: https://open.spotify.com/album/6g6tfCG0bgfjMrEGiGsoFC?nd=1 https://crom-lus.bandcamp.com Crøm-lus (Poppy Edwards) Strange Jealousy is mash up of warped sounds, acoustic instruments and synth sound design. Sounds and motifs flow in and out throughout the song, sometimes deliberately detuning, giving a feeling of uneasiness. This uneasiness links to the song’s emotion, the subject of which touches on family, love and its peripheries. This song has references to the aesthetics of trip-hop, jazz and Dub, with “instrumental inversion and ghostly voices, distant horn sections, odd perspectives, deep illusions and unexpected noises” [David Toop]. Perfecting this song came from the genius ears of Producer John Tonks, who has worked with many artists I admire from Tricky, to Massive Attack and Neneh Cherry.  Georgios Cherouvim The visuals of the video are generated algorithmically and feature visually complex patterns that emerge through the simulation of a self organizing behavioral system. Such patterns appear in nature and the brain is tuned to categorize them as organic, which also carries an inherited feeling of unease. This is used in the video as a vehicle to reflect on the emotions of the song. Taking the lead from the lyrics, the patterns evolve and shift between ambiguous shapes to the recognizable form of the two faces, an elegant interplay between synthesis, metamorphosis and decomposition of organic patterns and the human figure. The video was shot and edited as normal and then used to drive the behavior of a multi agent based system, obeying a set of simple rules and forces. The most characteristic behavior is the slime mold (Physarum Polycephalum) which creates a distinct network of interconnected branches. Over the years slime mold has fascinated many scientists and artists. Even though Physarum Polycephalum is a single cell organism, it exhibits a remarkable sensory-motor behavior and has the ability to create complex networks while searching for nutrients. Despite the lack of a central nervous system, it is able to effectively locate, migrate towards sources of food and over time optimize its complex network of interconnected branches, to effectively transport the nutrients over its constantly changing body. The system was implemented in Touch Designer, with the core logic coded in GLSL with compute shaders and can also be performed in real time. Off-line motion vectors were extracted from the video using Furnace in Nuke. ---- References Jones, J. (2011) Influences on the formation and evolution of Physarum polycephalum inspired emergent transport networks http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/20845/1/2011%20Naco%20uc09%20paper%20author%20copy.pdf More on Jeff Jones's research on Slime Mould http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/jeff/index.htm Guodong Rong & Tiow-Seng Tan (2006) School of Computing, National University of Singapore Jump Flooding in GPU with Applications to Voronoi Diagram and Distance Transform http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~tants/jfa/i3d06.pdf Thomas Diewald https://github.com/diwi/ https://vimeo.com/diwi David Reeves http://spatialslur.com/about/ https://vimeo.com/user4323989 Touch Designer https://www.derivative.ca/ Optical flow in Nuke https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke/plug-ins/furnace 

OLIVIA TER-BERG

Olivia Ter-berg is a singer and harpist from East London. In 2016, Olivia was discovered by BBC Introducing presenter Jericho Keys whlist busking in York’s City Centre and since then has frequently performed on both regional and national BBC Introducing shows. She has taught and performed in New York at the French Woods Festival of Performing Arts and was heavily involved in organising and performing for the BBC Radio Introducing North Yorkshire Stringing 60s event. Olivia released her debut single ‘Let Me In’ in June this year and is now busy writing new music and playing gigs in London and the UK.

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