Anneke Kampman: Women Make Music

Anneke Kampman is a singer and electronic musician currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. She performs regularly as a part of the electronic pop duo Conquering Animal Sound, who have released two albums since their formation in 2010; the Scottish Album of the Year shortlisted Kammerspiel (Gizeh 2011) and On Floating Bodies (Chemikal Underground 2012). Conquering Animal Sound’s live set has graced clubs, venues, festivals and museums across the UK and Europe and they have shared stages with acts such as Múm, Tuung and Zola Jesus.

Within her solo musical work (ANAKANAK) Anneke makes human machine-music by exploring her voice as an object; words become layers and counterpoint. She is currently producing a new piece that will be premiered at the Tectonics Festival (Glasgow 2014) and broadcast on Radio 3’s Hear and Now programme. The work will be an audio-visual performance that navigates ideas from cognitive neuroscience and the philosophy of mind. She is specifically interested in what cognitive neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga calls the ‘The Interpreter Module’ – a region of the left hemisphere of the brain that “continually explains the world using the inputs it has from the current cognitive state and cues from the surroundings.”

Anneke will utilise a variety of sonic materials as her musical grammar including found sounds, synthesisers, harp, percussion, tape and drum machines whilst mathematical probability pattern sequences will be used to generate visual scores. She will adopt processes based on brain functions in order to devise a system of ‘filters’ that can be applied to both sound and moving images.