Elizabeth Bernholz Composer
Gazelle Twin AKA Elizabeth Bernholz is an Ivor-nominated British composer and performance artist making experimental, electro-acoustic music that fuses sound design with acoustic instruments and electronics. From A capella vocal works, to electronic dance-music and sweeping cinematic arrangements, her work often features the striking use of voice with signature vocal processing. Her critically-acclaimed solo albums feature vivid concepts and live performances with dramatic staging, costume and visuals. She has collaborated with leading figures in music, film, dance and theatre. As a composer for film, television and other media she has created original scores for major film studios, broadcasters and game developers.
Kola Ganikale Composer/Performer/Researcher
Kola is an accomplished musician, composer and researcher. His research is centred on developing a device that can preserve and convey the semantic meanings of the Yoruba Talking Drum within digital performances of the Jùjú genre. This effort seeks to indigenise Nigeria’s music pedagogy, which has been largely shaped by Western influences, while also safeguarding the rich heritage of Jùjú music and other traditional Yoruba musical forms for future generations.
Dan Conway Video Artist
Dan has designed 3D visuals and live production designs for Bicep, Seefeel, Warp records, Cabaret Voltaire and many, many more electronic music acts. Having attended a screen Yorkshire course in Unreal he is keen to enter the field of interactive real time visuals and will bring his expertise and visual talents to the project.
Ben Eyes Research and Technology Lead
Ben Eyes is an award winning composer and sound engineer working in the North of England. His work is typified by large, complex textures and sound collages using field recordings, heavily treated guitars, acoustic instruments and vintage analogue synthesisers.
His performances combine video, immersive surround sound, live musicians and live audio manipulation. His interests lie in working outside the usual musical realms including collaborative work in dance,theatre, performance art and film. He won the award for Best Use of Sound at ICAD in 2017 for his composition “Fiamignano Gorge” based on data from the earthquake prone gorge in Italy. Ben has performed at festivals and concerts across Europe and the USA and released music on record labels Time Released Sound (USA), The Centrifuge and This Is Music.
Ben has recently worked with award winning composer Ambrose Field, Gazelle Twin on the online performance piece “Absent Sitters” and the live tour of the album Black Dog which was awarded 5 Stars in the Guardian, Trevor Wishart, Bafta Nominee Jane Horrocks on the Manchester International Festival show “Cotton Panic” and worked with Mercury nominees Roller Trio. The resulting album “New Devices” was listed in the top twenty albums of 2018 by Jazz Wise Magazine. He has worked extensively with Kongolese musician Mulele Matondo performing together as Kongolese techno group Electroni Kongo https://www.electronikongo.co.uk/ and one half of the electronic and percussion duo, Stocker / Eyes. He produces electronica for a variety of labels under the name Quip and ambient music under his own name.
Ben has a Masters by Research in Music Technology at the University of York entitled ‘Multimodal Performance Approaches in Electronic music’. He is currently undertaking a PhD at York, researching the design and creation of computer controlled electro acoustic instruments.
As a live sound engineer Ben has worked with Nihiloxica on the ground breaking Aphex Twin Printworks concert in London, Wrangler, Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Benge, Blancmange, Creep Show (with John Grant) and John Foxx.