Kitchen Cynics is the vehicle for Alan Davidson, compulsive songwriter from Aberdeen. Alan packed in his job at an advanced age to concentrate on making music, much of which is inspired by the history and nature of North East Scotland. He has self-produced more than 100 albums, and has had music released on labels in Italy, Germany, Greece & the USA. The music itself veers from gentle (but often macabre) folk song to shards of looped noise.

Kitchen Cynics - Strandloopers

Stolen Voices is Johanna Linsley and Rebecca Collins. Collins and Linsley work across performance, sound and text and have been undertaking a collaborative eavesdropping practice since 2014. www.yourstolenvoice.com

Jan Mertens is a musician and sound designer from Ghent, Belgium. He is a former member of the bands Roses for Ashley and Archivist. His work has been heard at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Wellcome Collection, among other venues.

'Postcards from the Ongoing Investigation' was originally created for Stolen Voices: Aberdeen, commissioned by Silver City Stories

Stolen Voices With Jan Mertens - Postcards From The Ongoing Investigation

Mariam Rezaei is an award winning composer, performer, improviser and DJ. She is director of TOPH, Gateshead and works with several groups, including Swarmfront, BLF, Wax Magnetic and MJ. She works predominantly with turntables, electronics, vocals and instrumental ensembles, with a number of works used in theatre and dance performances.  Notable commissions include BBC Proms 2013, Tectonics Oslo 2015, Glastonbury 2016, Tectonics Mosaic 2016, Counterflows 2017 and HCMF 2017.

Mariam Rezaei - Shanty For A Man With No Friends

Pete Stollery composes almost exclusively in the electroacoustic medium, particularly music using recorded sounds where there exists an interplay between the original "meaning" of sounds and sounds existing purely as sound itself, like a lump of clay ready to be shaped into something interesting. His music is performed and broadcast widely and is published by the Canadian label empreintes DIGITALes.

Peter Stollery - Stolen Voices

Barrett's Dottled Beauty is what you get when you cross a Kitchen Cynic with a Pefkin. Nursing an obsession equally with Syd Barrett and Lepidoptera, Alan Davidson and Gayle Brogan formed this duo in 2016, playing semi-improvised experimental folk, informed by their shared interest in nature, folk song and noise.

Barrett's Dottled Beauty - The Lights Of St. Cyrus

Ode Aseguinolaza, is a composer based on the Southwest Coast of France. Her journey from electro acoustic composition to classical and concrete music defines the direction of her creative space. Multidisciplinary performances allows her to explore artists' respective worlds in interconnection with her own.

Ode Aseguinolaza - An Acoustic Balade

Emma Bennett is an artist, theorist and teacher of performance. She is interested in speech as improvised tactic, as bad metaphor and flippant technology. Recent works have involved birdsong, chit-chat, soft furnishings and shouting. She has a PhD from Queen Mary University and works at the University of Leeds.

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