Since 2002 Los Angeles-based artist Neil Young aka Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young has been performing and recording as Bromp Treb, a nonsense onomatopoeia for the rattling windows of a jalopy with an overenthusiastic subwoofer. Working through an improvised maze of crooked rhythms and tangled textures, Young uses his voice/body, synthesis, tapes, percussion, drum machines and whatever else is available to squish time and space back into the hilariously delicate traps of decorum and order. The spring is never coiled up tight enough. Noise is joyful failure music. Bromp Treb has many recordings in circulation and has performed at a smattering of fancy-pants arts institutions and schools as well as countless basements, bars, lofts, living rooms, galleries and closets all around North America and Europe.
Malcy Duff (b.1978) is a cartoonist from Edinburgh, Scotland. He has produced over 60 comix, including ‘The Pineapple,’ ‘Jimmy Stewart,’ ‘The Heroic Mosh Of Mary’s Son,’ and ‘A 52 Second Silence For Topsy.’ His work has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and has been exhibited internationally. He also performs and records in the duo Usurper, which he co-founded with Ali Robertson in 2003. He has been performing ‘live comics’ since 2010, and began a new solo project ‘City Vegetables’ in 2015.
The poster for this event features a panel from Malcy’s ‘The Melancholy Pepperpot’ published in the recent Holyburger comic.
Lewys Holt is a dance artist and improviser who has worked internationally as a performer, choreographer and teacher for 10 years. They make work that crosses dance with spoken word with performance art. There is a subtle and sometimes not so subtle humour to their work which often explores repetition, confusion, miscommunication, existential philosophy and bus timetables alongside textural elements of sound and movement that vary between flowing, glitching and other unexpected impulses.
Daniela Gassi is an emerging contemporary artist based in Glasgow, originally from Toronto, Canada, and is on the cusp of completing her MMus in Viola Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a classically trained player who enjoys performing, improvising, and storytelling with live electronics.
