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KALLELSE #15 – THE LAST ONE

LEVI LU (US), NIKNAK (UK), SWIRLKIN (DK)

KALLELSE is over, at least in it’s current format. To end our 3 year run however, we have one last beautiful night planned for you with 3 acts exploring the limits of electronic music as a live performing art.

NikNak:

A trailblazing musical polymath, NikNak has carved a niche for herself in the music industry with her distinctive turntablism, immersive compositions, and captivating improvised performances. Heralded by the likes of DJ Mag, Clash, The Wire and Resident Advisor, her debut album Bashi garnered critical acclaim, positioning her as one to watch in the experimental electronic music scene. Her fourth studio album Ireti was released on Matthew Herbert’s label Accidental Records in 2024 and was named one of the year’s best albums by Mixmag and Bandcamp.

 

Swirlkin:

I like to see my practice as a form of soft world-building, where the viewer in each work is presented with an assemblage of fragments from a larger narrative, without this narrative being set in stone. You can see this in the compilation of watercolors, gameplay, and soundtracks in my website project www.swirlkins-craft.shop (Cantina, 2023). Here, elements from 00’s RPGs, romantic landscape painting, faux-classical music, and sound effects are woven together in a story that invites the player into a world of my previous works without relying on a clear narrative or specific folklore. Recently I’ve been working on a speaker-sculpture project: ‘Veils of the Eddy’, where I’m trying to enhance the emotional relationship between speakers and listeners. Veils of the Eddy: Invocation In the Eddy, the gods of audio known as Veils, are affecting the tides and fates of its peoples. To gain the favor of these gods and to sway their whims, humors and inclinations – a devout of the Veils called Swirlkin will invoke the spirits of his gods in speaker sculptures of various materials. What will happen in this conversation between Swirlkin and The Veils? Will the devout capture the essence of the gods in physical form? Or will his attempt result in a meeting he did not intend…?

 

Levi Lu:

Metanoia is a solo performance transforming the performer’s body into a sonic and visual instrument. The piece amplifies and externalizes internal bodily sounds into the performance space using geophone sensors, a customized in-mouth speaker, feedback, body drumming, choreographed movements, and interactive light installations. Through the powerful, haptic low frequencies, the audience shares in the performer’s embodied experience. The performance explores themes of body dysmorphia, self-harm, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality, linking sound, movement, and violence in divine ceremony.

 

 

Event made possible with support from Malmö Stad and Kulturrådet