WSK X: Festival of the Recently Possible
Friday, October 25, 2019 | 10 PM – 12 AM
The Ruins Poblacion
5855 Alfonso, Makati, 1200 Metro Manila, Philippines
In the remains of a burned down ancestral house, abandoned until its recent repurposing, creaking floorboards and harsh echoes bouncing off thick concrete walls are swallowed by otherworldly tones, glacial glissandos, and atonal shrieks. They bleed into each other, ebbing and flowing, as eight musicians — of distinct backgrounds and divergent sensibilities — continue to speak in tongues, slip in and out of time, volume, and idioms, and divine phantomic textures from electro-acoustic mediums. Lurking from different parts of the dilapidated space, this cracked and scattered octet emits crackling static and shimmering skronks, tone clusters and sound masses, as each musician follows their own psychic streams, communally taking part in this suburban disturbance.
Featuring:
Dharma
Ali Fyffe
mizutama
Tusa Montes
Cheryl Ong
Ignaz Schick
Tadashi Yonago
WSK X is supported by Nusasonic (CTM Festival, Playfreely, YES NO KLUB), an initiative of Goethe-Institut Philippinen and the 国際交流基金アジアセンター The Japan Foundation Asia Centerーunder the Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration.
