KOGG

Free Event

KOGG:
Selena Kay hardware controller / keyboard / treble recorder / voice
Cerys Hogg electronic drums / Voyager instrument / keyed spannerspiel / voice

Selena Kay (UK, 1971) & Cerys Hogg (UK, 1968):
Voyager (2019) 5’
Hocket (2020) 4’
Belastica (2020) 4’
Spanners (2021) 4’ 30’’

Selena Kay and Cerys Hogg have been collaborating as experimental electronic duo KOGG for five years. With roots in classical contemporary composition, jazz improvisation and visual art, they create music with off-centre melodies and elastic rhythms coupled with a rich sonic palette. In 2022, KOGG were commissioned by Britten Pears Arts to write Belastica, a 45-minute piece for electronics and string quartet, premiered at Aldeburgh Festival with the Ligeti Quartet. In January 2023 they were runners-up at Nonclassical Battle of the Bands.

Using sampled sounds including field recordings, homemade acoustic instruments and live video, KOGG will perform music from their forthcoming debut album Mechanista at hcmf// 2023. Their performance will feature everything from manipulated recorder, sampled vocals and workshop tools to excerpts of Bartók’s century-old wax cylinder recordings of folk singers.

This multi-textured presentation comes with dashes of theatricality and humour, leaning into the festival’s playful side.

Produced by hcmf//

hcmf// shorts: open call 2023 is part of the Sounds Now project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Photo: KOGG © Kate Sullivan