Covid-19

The safety of our audience, artists and staff always comes first. We are constantly reviewing the situation regarding Covid-19 in line with government guidelines and will take extra measures to keep everybody safe where necessary. Click here for IKLECTIK's covid policy. Please send any queries to sophie@nonclassical.co.uk.

Accessibility

Wheelchair access IKLECTIK is accessible from 2 entrances: the back door has step free access and has direct access from the parking. The front door is accessible and is equipped with a mobile ramp. The front door is close to an accessible toilet (step free access). The front door is wide enough to comfortably accommodate a standard and non-standard wheelchair and there is sufficient space to move around, with a good sight line and no steps to navigate. The back door is wide enough to comfortably accommodate a standard wheelchair (70cm).

Accessible toilets The toilet is accessible from our front door. The door is wide enough to accommodate a standard and non-standard wheelchair with room for turning space, grab rails and transfer space.

Seating Our seatings are not fixed, so we can accommodate our guests according to different needs. We offer a variety of seating options that enable people to choose the most comfortable option for them. The design and plan of our events can be easily adapted and to ensure that all visitors can safely and easily move around.

Contact We encourage people with access requirements who want to attend to get in touch prior to the event sending an email to info@iklectikartlab.com and copying in sophie@nonclassical.co.uk to discuss how we can best support them on the day and their preference regarding the seating.

abirdwhale Kakinoki Masato

abirdwhale Kakinoki Masato is an artist, researcher, film music composer/producer, musician, writer, photographer and vocalist. He is based in London and Tokyo.

He completed a PhD in Music with the project of audiovisual digital music performance at Canterbury Christ Church University (2017), where he was granted Canterbury Christ Church University Graduate School Scholarship. From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting artist and postdoctoral researcher at CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice), LCC, University of the Arts London, funded by the Pola Art Foundation.

In his research-based art practice, he has been working on sex and relationship norms, literature, local histories and food culture.

kakinokimasato.com

Chihiro Ono

Born in Chiba, Japan, Chihiro Ono is a London-based Japanese violinist, specialising in classical, contemporary, experimental music and sound art. She has been performing at major festivals and venues across UK and the worldwide, with classical, contemporary and experimental groups including Apartment House, ARCO, CHROMA, Ensemble Modern.

Alongside performing, Chihiro’s work as a sound artist has let to her producing works for radio, theatre and film productions. Her work draws on influences from a rich variety repertoire, encompassing folklore, field recording, improvisation and more.

HachiRen, her debut release for solo violin with field-recording was released digitally on Nonclassical in Spring 2021.

chihiroono.com

dissolvingPath

DissolvingPath is a moniker of Neil Cantwell, co-founder of the podcast/live event agency Japan Sound Portrait with Nick Luscombe and also Co-Director/Co-Producer of the film KanZeOn - an immersive documentary about Japanese sound and religion. He has previously worked as Programme Officer for Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange at the Japan Foundation London Office, as well as holding the position of Foreign Research Fellow at Shuchiin University in Kyoto. Neil continues to perform, record and write music across a range of instruments.

Eisuke Yanagisawa

Eisuke Yanagisawa is an ethnographer, field recordist, and filmmaker based in Kyoto, Japan. He is especially interested in listening to and recording the tone and resonance of particular places, as well as exploring their sounds from cultural, ecological, geographical, acoustic, and historical perspectives. The process involves observing and capturing tiny, hidden, and inaudible sounds using various types of microphones. Since 2006, his main research focus has been on the Gong Culture of ethnic minorities living in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. One of the results has been the production of various ethnographic films on their culture and soundscape. His recordings of the music of the Bahnar people in the Central Highlands from 2006 to 2015 was released on LP by Sublime Frequencies.

Additionally, he continues to explore experimental video projects in an attempt to portray the interaction between humans and objects by focusing on sounds. His audiovisual works have been exhibited/screened at various film festivals and museums around the world in countries such as Canada, India, Estonia, Taiwan, Italy, Germany, the US, Brazil, Japan and others. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University.

eisukeyanagisawa.com

James Greer

Ken Nishikawa

Tomoko Hojo

Tomoko Hojo is a sound artist working within the fluidities between Sound, Music and Performance. Based in Japan, recently she developed projects around Yoko Ono in Tokyo and London, based upon the theme that makes (women’s) silenced voices audible in the history. As well as solo activities, she has an ongoing collaborative project with Swiss sound artist Rahel Kraft, their projects seek for hidden, faint and intimate sounds, which are often inaudible in the relationship between people and place. She also co-ordinates and performs as part of Tokyo based Ensemble for Experimental Music and Theater, which explores questions around theatre and notation, propounded by John Cage. She has written about the pre-history of Sound Art in Japan from 1950s to 1970s, focusing on exhibited sound works created by artists having their origins in music, published in the book, After Musicking, edited by Yoshitaka Mōri, Tokyo University of the Arts Press, in 2017.

Kate Carr

Kate Carr has been investigating the intersections between sound, place, and emotionality both as an artist and a curator since 2010. During this time she has ventured from tiny fishing villages in northern Iceland, explored the flooded banks of the Seine in a nuclear power plant town, recorded wildlife in South Africa, and in the wetlands of southern Mexico.

She works across composition, installation and live performance and runs the sound art label Flaming Pines.

Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wire, Pitchfork and Fact Magazine among many others, and has also been played on the radio on stations ranging from various channels of the BBC, to independent stations in Estonia.

Carr regularly performs throughout the UK and Europe, with recent performances taking place at the Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Cafe Oto, Instants Chavires (Paris) and AB Salon (Brussels).

Her music can be found on the labels Helen Scarsdale (US), Hasana Editions (Indonesia), Rivertones (UK), Soft (France) Longform Editions (Australia) Galaverna (Italy) as well as on her own label Flaming Pines.

Kate is Australian, and lives in London.

Nick Luscombe

London and Tokyo - based BBC broadcaster, radio producer, soundscape artist and sound and music collector, Nick Luscombe, has been described as a “restless musical soul”, reflected in his much-loved art/music show, Late Junction on BBC Radio 3 and the long-running Flomotion / New Ratio radio shows which he has expertly selected for over 20 years currently broadcasting via new Tokyo innovation startup hub radio station, CIC Live.