Addictive TV's Orchestra of SamplesOn Thursday 26th Feb — this Thursday — at 8pm, London’s cross-arts centre Rich Mix in Shoreditch will host a rare event of live innovation featuring the legendary DJ and producer Howie B performing live, AV innovators Addictive TV, and support from rising star Kizzy Crawford.
Electronic duo Addictive TV create music you can see. Trail-blazers in the art of audio/video remixing, Graham Daniels and Mark Vidler (aka mash-up DJ Go Home Productions) are known for their dynamic live shows and have played in over 50 countries!
Howie BOn February 26th, they present their ever growing new Orchestra of Samples project where they filmed recording sessions with over 150 musicians around the world, then sampled them, creating a digital supergroup of international artists who never met! Five years in the making, they spent 2014 touring the show while also recording and creating new work which they’ll present for the first time on the night, with live accompaniment from the Beatbox Collective’s Bass6, fiddle player and BBC young musician of the year Shona Mooney and sitarist Baluji Shrivastav (who performed with Coldplay at the 2012 Paralympics).
In 2014, Addictive TV performed the project in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Russia and Morocco. The Quietus wrote “the show celebrates cultural commonalities in all their polysyllabic richness: otherwise wildly disparate sources interact with and complement one another in enthrallingly unexpected ways”, and The Times simply called it "ingenious and compelling”.
More info about the project here: www.addictive.tv/orchestra-of-samples - with a link to the blog where you can read about all the musicians we’ve filmed including Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab’s singer), Henry Dagg (Björk collaborator and creator of the Sharpsichord she used in Biophilia), legendary sound sculptors the Baschet brothers who created the Cristal Baschet (that Damon Albarn famously used in his opera Monkey: Journey to the West) and many more!
