The Engine Room presents: Dale Cornish, Haunted Network Research Initiative & Patricia Auchterlonie and Olivia McCannon

The Engine Room presents: Dale Cornish; Haunted Network Research Initiative & Patricia Auchterlonie; and Olivia McCannon for an evening of sonic experimentation that pushes at the boundaries of sound art and music.

Native South Londoner Dale Cornish explores the edges of and similarities between experimental music, electroacoustic and dance music. Since being part of the London electroclash movement at the beginning of the 21st century, Cornish has carved out a singular path that both combines and distorts experimental and club music sounds and tropes into new and unusual forms. Cornish’s output includes five albums for Entr’acte and several editions for The Tapeworm. His most recent and celebrated work ‘Traditional Music of South London’ was released by Manchester’s The Death Of Rave in 2022. For this performance Cornish will be performing material from his next album and other new work.

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Haunted Network Research Initiative & Patricia Auchterlonie Presents: Snartlegog

THE HAUNTED NETWORK RESEARCH INITIATIVE IS AN ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO ARCHIVING AND PRESERVING THE WORK OF THE COMPOSER CAMERON DODDS. THROUGH RESEARCH, COLLABORATION, AND CYBERNETIC STREGA-HACKING THE HNRI AIMS TO CONTEXTUALISE DODDS’ WORK AND THE AESTHETIC REALM SURROUNDING IT. THE HNRI ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF WILLING THEMSELVES INTO EXISTENCE.

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Patricia Auchterlonie is a singer, performer, and maker looking to explore all that is playful/colourful/unexpected. She is fascinated with the human voice and with textile media, especially the possible intertwinings of sound and thread. Current obsessions include English folk music, Balkan singing, tapestry weaving, and troubadour music. She is interested in teasing out the slow fermentation of making processes and in risky co-making – that is to say, creating new collaborative work that allows for vulnerability and experimentation.

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Olivia McCannon is a writer and translator of poetry published by Carcanet, Penguin and Pavilion. Her collection Exactly My Own Length won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize.

A new book, The Lives of Z, is due out from Pavilion Poetry (LUP) in April 2025. This emerged from a creative practice PhD at Newcastle, called “Living Translations of Poetry in the ‘Anthropocene’.”

She has recently started to experiment with combining words and sound and her performance will present some of this work in progress.