Ben Eshmade has been a vital interface between the listening public and brilliant, sometimes unjustly obscure music for over a decade, combining, courtesy of his Arctic Circle organisation, a widely acknowledged facility for live music promotion and innovatively staged audio-visual events with a bulging portfolio of high-profile radio production, broadcast DJing and label curating projects, along with an ever-burgeoning, critically acclaimed career in arts podcasting. 

Whats up: 
6.,7.,8.3.2025 Sound & songs for theatre at Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden 
2024 Artist Stipend NRW for ERA GELDES new set development
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26.09.2021 4-6pm concert at Theater Landungsbrücken Frankfurt/ it’s election day! 
6.10.2020 9pm concert ERA GELDES at anachronism, MS Stubnitz, Hamburg
7.10.2020 9pm concert and live stream ERA GELDES at anachronism, Theater Schwankhalle Bremen
Release: charity album with Hackoustic for Club Iklectik
14.3. 12pm: UNION CHAPEL, London: vocalist in the Hackoustics Orchestra.
“Insubordinately Sublime” -Inigo Wilkins about recent concerts
Here you find songs, sounds and radiofeatures I arrange and produce myself and some I speak and sing for. Situated between postindustrial, sonic jokes and experimental pop-punk.
***ALBUM: https://jcdecaux.bandcamp.com/album/watch-close  ***

I am an artist living and working between London and Berlin and on tour.
Studied post-dramatic theatre and theory/philosophy with a focus on soundart: at ATW Gießen at Heiner Goebbels, Felix Kubin u.o. and as a guest contemporary dance&choreography at CNSMD Lyon.
I love words and sounds, write for theater and run a theatre company putting up music performances. I work with electronic and analog sounds, homemade instruments, voice(s) and fieldrecording. I direct contemporary classical concerts, live radioplays, music for theatre and soundinstallations.
Here on soundcloud you can find some tracks, sketches and experiments.  
 enjoy listening-

When you click on the songtitles you can see more infos about the pieces.
below are links to CV etc. feel free to have a look around, see you in real life.

pictures & sounds copyright @AnaBerkenhoff if not otherwise quoted. 

about the album "Watch Close":
picadilly records writes: "...sounding a little like an Eccentronic Research Council meets Raymond Scott’s Mahattan Research Inc meets Cluster, this is a collection of poetry, electronics and improvisation woven together like a tapestry and drawing you in like a tense but beautifully shot thriller. Clangers-esque theramin sine tones, ethnic percussion, multi-lingual poetry, mangled strings – a plethora of idents from an all manner of subversive stylings. This is brilliant!"

boomcat writes: "...blur the lines between poetry and tone poem, with Manchester’s answer to Peter Pan coaxing out a gauzy spectrum of eccentric small sounds, lopped beats and radiophonic quarks.."

In 2016 my work was played at Tilde Festival for soundart Melbourne, Radio NY, live concert&interview on BBC Wales, concerts at Oriel-Sycharth Wales, New River Studios London, The Others London, Sonic Arts Forum London, Radio futuresound.fm.
speaking at Focus Wales Festival // Digital Innovations Day: Panel 3: THE SPACE RACE: How embracing the digital revolution can give you the edge

An insightful series of Sonica Talks and Cryptic Conversations...

Sonica Glasgow, sonic art for the visually minded, produced by  Cryptic, is an award winning 11-day biennial festival, dedicated to world-class visual sonic arts, presenting exceptional international artists alongside UK talent.

Cryptic is a Glasgow based internationally-renowned producing art house, presenting today’s most imaginative, innovative artists whilst also nurturing the creative talent of tomorrow. We create memorable experiences that engage and inspire our audiences, ‘ravishing the senses’ with multi-media performances that fuse music, sonic and visual art.

Quando eu morrer batam em latas,
Rompam aos saltos e aos pinotes,
Façam estalar no ar chicotes,
Chamem palhaços e acrobatas!

Que o meu caixão vá sobre um burro
Ajaezado à andaluza...
A um morto nada se recusa,
Eu quero por força ir de burro.

Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Established in 1994, Cryptic is Scotland’s internationally renowned home of audiovisual art and experimentation. Founded by Cathie Boyd, and based in Glasgow but with a global reach, Cryptic presents and promotes the most dynamic talents of today and tomorrow as they explore new dimensions in live music, visual and sonic arts and performance, and the weird and wild areas where these disciplines intersect and cross over.

hello! I live in a North Wales village. I make odd indie music in my garage. I've started and ended lots of projects. Been in bands. Started a family. 

This profile is various parts of that story and new things I'm working on and little oddities and sketches. Some of it might end up with other projects, on albums, who knows.
 
I am also in a band called Mechanical Owl and do a project called Sightseers and do other things. This is a place for some of that too.

Leave a comment if you enjoy anything here, it's always cool to read.

We still believe in the future x

composer/violinist/producer aka K. Flint
sophie.r.b.cameron@gmail.com

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