Moments of Toad and the Ripley

Improvised music made live based on the outcomes of the Ripley, an instrument occupied with the generation and processing of all colours of noise, which has been designed on alchemical discoveries made by British alchemist George Ripley in the 15th century. Noise, colours, lightning, square waves and clocks, vomited wings and feathers mashed through salt, fed by mercury to feed the final output, the Toad, the Gold ? And then to recirculate?
Speed and modes, wood and wild, or meek and mild.

Media:

The Ripley – designed and made by Martin Howse
The Brute – designed by Arturia
The Scatterer – designed and made by Chris Carlson
The Mixer – designed by Allen and Heath
The Chef – Kaffe Matthews

 

Moments of Toad  premiered at Madeiradig Festival 2021, then Pogo gallery, Lisbon. Listen here an extract.

The first Berlin performance, 7.01.22,  Petersburg Art space(PAS), Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 101, 10553 Berlin. 20.00h.

 

I am consumed with the need to get back on stage with a new space, a new audience, a different time of day. To improvise, to play live and dangerous negotiating that knife edge of success and failure, all sounds new and visceral, being witnessed together with the audience for the first time, never to be repeated. These months of COVID driven fear, our blind willingness to hand over all personal data to algorhythmic systems who now know and do yes unwittingly control greater aspects of our lives daily…   And is anyone really listening?  Question that product, remember your animal, offer the unknown.   km  dec 2020