LAETITIA SADIER & BATSCH PERFORM LIVE

Tickets £10 / £8 concessions
Spaces are limited, early booking is recommended.

This one-off performance includes brand new material produced during Studio Voltaire's inaugural Summer Music Residency.

Following the success of her Europe–wide tour this Spring, Laetitia Sadier and her latest collaborators Batsch, will embark upon an exploration into the effects of sound on the body, in what she calls ‘an exercise in reconnection’.

This will be the first time the two acts have collaborated on new material. Together, they will undertake a period of intensive collaboration on–site at Studio Voltaire, deconstructing usual approaches to music composition and performance. The project aims to directly access core emotion through sound. In Sadier’s own words, ‘Intellect is overrated. The real intellect is in feeling. The problem is we are being removed from our bodies and nature. There is an innate intelligence in our bodies, from which we are being castrated.’

Incorporating meditative techniques such as the use of binaural beats, and paying homage to eastern philosophies, the group will translate different facets of human emotion through the music they compose. The gallery, a former chapel, will become a ‘sanctuary of resonance’. External influences will be left at the door, in order to maximise the spectator’s vulnerability to the vibrations inside. As Sadier comments, ‘resonance is the key. The result of this project will be how we interpret this resonance through our pop sensibilities’.

Placing emphasis on the necessity of live encounter, the final performance will purposely not be recorded, and must be experienced in person.

This commission has been generously supported by Stephen & Yana Peel and Fluxus Art Projects.

About the artists:

Laetitia Sadier is an artist, performer and musician with a career spanning 25 years. In 1990 she formed Stereolab with Tim Gane, receiving critical acclaim for albums such as Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements (1993); Mars Audiac Quintet (1995); and Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996). Other collaborations include Blur, Luna, the High Llamas, Mouse on Mars and Tyler, the Creator. Sadier’s first solo album The Trip was released in 2010, with albums Silencio and Something Shines following in 2012 and 2014 respectively. The recently released project ‘Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble: Find Me Finding You’ is touring throughout 2017.

Batsch are an indie pop quartet based in Coventry, England. Formed in 2013 by singer/guitarist Mason Le Long, bassist Joe Carvell, drummer Matt Rheeston and keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Andy Whitehead, Batsch released their debut EP Tiles the same year, and its follow-up, Collar, in 2014. Their debut full–length album Batch was released in April 2017 on Tin Angel Records. All four members have also toured extensively with other artists, including Laetitia Sadier, Marker Starling, Devon Sproule and Nicholas Krgovich.