Cafe Kino has announced a performance by Bristol musicians Hangover Square called Cityscapes on Saturday 24th May. This is the start of a long term project for Bristol based band Hangover Square, exploring the sounds in the city. Using found sounds from around each performance venue to create a unique experience. A historical time capsule of life in that area created at that time which is transient and unique to each performance.

Described as ‘Americana meets Electronica’ Hangover Square will present the performance with original songs, atmospheres and found sounds recorded in the local area of St Annes. They will be manipulated electronically either beforehand or live during the show. You won’t always be able to recognise the origin of the sounds you’ll hear, some will be obvious some won’t.

This second cityscape takes place in Stokes Croft at Cafe Kino. The sounds from the city capturing everyday life, from local supermarkets, schools, GP practices, cafes, the streets then using the sound to tell a different story at each performance.

Expect evolving cityscapes and distorted conversations overlapping and alternating with songs and instrumentals. In a performance of continuous sound there will be live electronics, layered vocals, piano, synth, flute, loops and slide guitar combining to create atmospheric soundscapes and seamless transitions.

This performance is called ‘Cityscapes 2’ as they’ll be doing one more related show later in the year, also in the city of Bristol, to compete the trilogy. For the others they’ll collect new found sounds in the areas surrounding the venues making each event unique to it’s environment. The set includes improvisation at various points so no two performances will be the same.

Another element to March gig is that there will be some seating but everyone will be free to move around, making it a bit like an art exhibition but for the ears. You’ll be able to check your evenly hovering attention into and out of what we’re doing, chiming with partly how we experience the world, music floating in and out of our consciousness within everyday settings.

They’ll be making parts of the performance available to watch online in the build up to the the event and some of the show itself may be filmed to view later but these gigs are very much about the live experience and the fact that they won’t ever be repeated exactly again.

They’ll be looking to take it on tour and record new found sounds in whatever areas they end up performing in.

Victoria Bourne and Chris Harper celebrate a 20 year musical collaboration both with backgrounds in electronic composition and performance.

The electronics are an integral part of the band both on the recordings and live. Not to replace musicians but to be a musician in their own right.

They host gigs in venues as diverse as a graveyards, gothic churches and cinemas. This is two people sounding like a 40 piece ensemble.

They are two highly experienced professional musicians who have been played widely across the radio including having been playlisted on BBC Radio 2, they have toured extensively across the UK and in Europe.

Victoria’s voice has a classical purity and laser clarity creating poetic structures. Underpinned with her piano and synth parts which blend with Chris’s creative resonator guitar playing, taking in intricate fingerpicking and driving rhythms.

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