Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
The African electronic music collective NON Records take over the countryside with lineup of truly global sounds
Wysing Arts Centre is located deep in Cambridgeshire’s Silicon Fen, a landscape of science parks and tech incubators, a place where microprocessors and bluetooth sets issue from isolated country barns. But for 12 hours on Saturday, this corner of the fen was sending out high-tech emissions of a very different kind, as Wysing Arts Centre became a satellite of NON, an artist-run record label turned global collective of artists.
Last year’s Wysing music festival enforced one rule: no electricity. This year, however, everything is electric. From the throbbing digital scree that opened London-based producer Venus Ex Machina’s set to the woozy north African vocal samples used by Milan’s Petit Singe, no sound came unmediated, unamplified or unprocessed.
Continue reading...by Robert Barry via Electronic music | The Guardian
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