ii.) Listen: Joanne Armitage on Feminist Algorave (via Hacking Culture): Matthew Tift talks with Dr. Joanne Armitage, discussing feminist algorave, her live coding workshops for women and non-binary people, narratives around failure, inclusion and diversity in technology communities, and more. Joanne kicked off Mutant Promise's online workshop programme for Somerset House Studios this week with an introduction to making music with live coding in SuperCollider.
Mutant Promise is a new programming and producing platform supporting the work of musicians who combine a DIY and workshop practice with their performance, composition and release work.
iii.)
Read: Charting the Evolution of Post-Internet Music (via Red Bull):
Adam Harper tracks underground music's shifting response to our increasingly digital lives over the past decade. Programming and producing platform
Mutant Promise takes its name from Harper's piece, in a passage describing a particular modern faction of grime "fulfilling a mutant promise" beyond the futurism of classic London grime. Founders
Tadeo Sendon-Lopez and
Harry Murdoch take Harper's wording and attribute it with new meaning; for their new DIY music platform, 'mutant promise' becomes the encapsulation of a desire to work with artists who are restless with their medium, whose practice is to continually hack, modify, invent - mutate - the tools and instruments which they're given. The 'promise' is the certainty of the push forward that defines these tools, and how this process shapes new artistic practices in return.
iii.) Read: Learning from the Virus (via Artforum): Writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado's essay on the political disease management of Covid-19. Another of Juliana Huxtable's influences, Preciado's book Testo Junkie is cited by Huxtable as "the single most illuminating, paradigm-shifting and totalizing take on the evolution of power, capital and their permutations of the past 10+ years."
iv.)
Listen: 'STAMINA' by
RRP aka Tanora, whose music featured as part of
Tarek Lakhrissi's
TRANSMISSIONS episode,
Your world is already ending, which broadcasted live via the Somerset House website this week.