Posts Tagged ‘Futurism’
The Eccentronic Research Council at Village Underground: Live Review
There were dark tales to be told as the synth-wielding Sheffield combo, featuring an acclaimed actor in their ranks, played their debut London show on Friday 17th May 2013.
Written by Richard Pearmain
The Eccentronic Research Council by Laura Hickman
For the first in a series of events celebrating a century since Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo published L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noises), his manifesto on “machine music”, cross-platform artistic collective Noise of Art had gathered together an eclectic mix of collaborators. Perhaps fittingly, the venue chosen was Village Underground, a former Victorian warehouse adjacent to a disused railway viaduct on the fringes of London’s East End – a symbol of the industrialisation that had originally inspired Russolo.
As well as a series of DJ sets covering electronic music old and new, there was a brief appearance from the ever impressive alternative all-female choir
