Kris Kuldkepp // Opus 58

Content warning: This performance will be loud. Foam earplugs will be available on entry. 

Standard £20 // Solidarity £26 // Kirklees Resident £18 // Under 30 £6
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Advance booking required 

Estimated end time: 11:30pm 

Please note: this performance includes an interval 

Opus 58:
Liepa Vozgirdaitė turntables
Kristupas Gikas turntables 

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Kris Kuldkepp double bass / live electronics 

Kris Kuldkepp (Estonia, 1993) 
Morphology for Loving Ears (2026) 40’ World Premiere 

Sound is never still in this late-night double bill from Estonian experimental musician and performance artist Kris Kuldkepp and Lithuanian improvised music duo Opus 58. 

Centred around turntables, Opus 58’s performances expand through ever-changing additions of found objects and instruments: from piezo-amplified materials, toys and 1/16 size violins to whatever else happens to appear in their ever-growing collection. Their sound explores rotations, repetitions, angular circularities and the fragile beauty of things coming apart. 

Kris Kuldkepp‘s practice focuses on the perception, materiality, and behaviour of sound, emphasising its resonance in physical spaces. Drawing on a background in classical and early music performance and now working with experimental practices combining double bass, modular synthesizer and live electronics, Kuldkepp creates listening experiences where the boundaries between instrument, technology and environment become increasingly blurred. 

Morphology for Loving Ears is an iteration of Kuldkepp’s solo project for double bass and live-electronics, exploring the intersection between an acoustic sound body and an electronically generated sound world. Using extreme amplification techniques – along with meticulous positioning of microphones – Morphology focuses on the perception of hearing, using extreme dynamics, playful sound directionality and the estrangement of sonic objects to transform the double bass into a post-industrial sound vortex.

Produced by hcmf// supported by Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music, Lithuanian Culture Institute and Music Information Centre Lithuania 

Photo: Kris Kuldkepp © TaiZhi Shao // Opus 58 © Adelė Vozgirdaitė