Unpredictable Series Presents: Leafcutter John + Elaine Mitchener + Blanca Regina

About

Unpredictable Series presents a special evening of music and unique performances with a solo by Leafcutter John, a solo with Elaine Mitchener, and an audiovisual duo with Leafcutter John and Blanca Regina. 

LEAFCUTTER JOHN

Bradford-born, Wakefield-raised, Leafcutter John has performed and collaborated widely, including as part of mercury-nominated band Polar Bear, and solo at places like Jarvis Cocker’s meltdown and Planet Mu raves. John first found recognition twenty three years ago through Mike Paradinas’s Planet Mu record label – a gold standard for the experimental fringes of electronic music. His discography ranges from the experimentalism of The Housebound Spirit, to the folk-infused Forest and the Sea – the latter containing “Seba '' which James Acaster named in his top nine essential tracks.

John moved up to Sheffield a few years ago and quickly fell in love with climbing. In this rare London performance John will explore using actual gritstone in his performance.

www.leafcutterjohn.com

ELAINE MITCHENER

Elaine Mitchener is a vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art. Elaine founded the collective electroacoustic unit The Rolling Calf (with Jason Yarde and Neil Charles).

Artists she has collaborated with include experimental musicians such as Moor Mother, Loré Lixenberg, Saul Williams, Pat Thomas, and David Toop; composers George E Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, and Tansy Davies; ensembles Apartment House, London Sinfonietta, Irreversible Entanglements, Ensemble MAM, Beam Splitter, Ensemble Klang, and Klangforum Wien; Van Huynh Company; and visual artists Sonia Boyce, Christian Marclay and The Otolith Group.

While developing her projects, Elaine continues to work as a collaborative and interpretive singer.

www.elainemitchener.com

BLANCA REGINA

Blanca Regina is an interdisciplinary artist, tutor, and independent curator who works with spontaneous composition systems creating multimedia landscapes using voice, objects, electronics, and visuals. She is also looking at book arts, immersive media, and design. Between London and Madrid together with Steve Beresford, she founded the Unpredictable Series, which focused on spontaneous music and experimentation in visual arts following her first collective Mademotion founded in Madrid. She has produced three albums with Beresford, mixed and mastered by Dave Hunt in London, ‘What Blue’ (2020) Duets with Steve Beresford; ‘Duets with Blanca Regina, Spontaneous Music’ featuring duets with Leafcutter John, Jack Goldstein, John Butcher, Benedict Taylor, Matthias Kispert, Aneek Thapar, Steve Beresford, Sharon Gal, and Hyelim Kim and and ‘Art of Improvisers’ (2017) a collection album with several artists concentrating in women improvisers. With longtime collaborator and artist Leafcutter John capturing their live performances in 2017 they created ‘Miga’ a limited edition Pendrive and digital release. Other collaborations in music and audiovisual performances include duos with Matthias Kispert, Peter Cusack, Matt Black, Sr Arribas, Terry Day Sharon Gal, Adriana Camacho, and David Toop...She has produced exhibitions, performances and workshops internationally with presentations in London - Cafe Oto, Turner Contemporary, Barbican, Tate Modern - in Madrid - PhotoEspaña, La Casa Encendida, Cruce - in Mexico - Fundación Pedro Meyer, Biblioteca Henestrosa, in Berlin - HKW, Sowieso .- She has provided guest lectures and workshops in the UK and internationally including at the University of the Arts London, Goldsmiths University, Guildhall, Ravensbourne University…Her work has been supported by Arts Council England, Sound & Music, BMC, Amexcid, Photo-España, and Garage Cube.

www.blancaregina.com / www.unpredictable.info