Margate Electronics winter edition is focusing on modular synthesis, with three distinct artists each taking a different approach to live modular performance. We have Loula Yorke, Microcorps (Alexander Tucker) and M2C (Raven Bush) on the line up.
Loula Yorke is a UK-based composer, sound artist and modular synthesist whose work drifts between systems and sensation, creating music of minimal melodies, shimmering voltage and looping sequences that feel both playful and solemn. An award-winning artist with a background spanning live modular performance, installations and socially engaged projects such as Atari Punk Girls for SPILL Festival, she has released acclaimed albums on labels including Truxalis and Castles in Space, with her music broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music. Yorke has performed widely, from Café Oto in London to Tabakalera in San Sebastián, weaving arpeggios, noise and voice into fluid, psychoactive sound worlds.
MICROCORPS is the project of artist and musician Alex Tucker, who works at the intersection of heavy electronics, modular systems, cello, bass guitar and voice to create dense, psychoactive sound worlds. With a background in fine art and experimental comics, Tucker explores the cross-pollination of human and machine through layered rhythms, drones and vocal manipulations, producing music that phases between acoustic textures and synthetic structures. Collaboration is central to his practice, with recent work involving figures such as Regis, Justin K Broadrick, Nik Colk Void, Phew, Elvin Brandhi and others, situating MICROCORPS firmly within the landscape of adventurous, exploratory electronic music.
M2Coast [M2C], the latest project from composer and Speakers Corner Quartet member Raven Bush, situates itself at the intersection of strings, modular synthesis, and field recording. The work traces the unstable frictions between acoustic and electronic intonation, drawing analogies with weather systems and environmental drift. M2C is grounded in self-enquiry and time spent outdoors, filtering lived experience into a practice that is both meditative and process-oriented.
