Afrodeutsche and Alex Jovčić-Sas: The Open Fund for Music Creators
Eight to Infinite is a new exciting collaborative project between electronic artist Afrodeutsche and research curator, Alex Jovcic-Sas. The aim is to revise two unknown historical composers, Gertrud Grunow (Bauhaus) and Daphne Oram (BBC), by writing, recording, and performing a new work that uses their archival materials combined with contemporary digital compositional tools. Grunow and Oram worked with optical sound as a process for composing music, specifically focused on colours and shapes as compositional tools. They both have been largely overlooked within their respective institutional histories and this project will bring to life their unique and rich compositional practices.
Afrodeutsche is rising rapidly and powerfully. Her live sets are meticulous, and her productions intricate. After playing her first live show warming up for techno titan, Carl Craig, in 2016 in Ibiza for Cosmic Pineapple, and featured on line-ups alongside electro royalty, Dopplereffekt. Afrodeutsche’s DJ style is a selection of Drexciyan delights with tough UK techno mainstays such as Claro Intelecto and Randomer. She holds a monthly radio show on NTS, featuring her own productions-from dark electro to breaks and jacking house.
Alex has worked with some of the UK’s biggest festivals including Edinburgh Fringe, Louder Than Words Festival, and Pangea Festival. He is currently working in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary and has worked on exhibitions such as the global Bauhaus Imaginista as well as Bertha: Seen and Heard, Complaint, and Our Home; Our City. He is currently involved in the development of Nottingham Contemporary’s new digital research strand, Sonic Continuum.