Cello Powder
Nikos Veliotis
Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
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Nikos played every note that it’s possible to play on the cello, all played back as a one hour drone, while the cello was turned to powder and bottled.
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A crash-course in pre-figurative, radical, queer, anti-racist, anti-police, anti-prison, anti-deportation abolitionist politics and trans-resistance.
A performance for dry ice and four specially constructed steel tables, each one heated by a single candle until searingly hot.
Summing up of the investigations with a reflection on what has been done that week and what could be done the next.
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UK conceptual/ drone/ noise artist, who is seriously posing what might seem to be unanswerable questions of music.