Curating Errors; with Perera Elsewhere
Perera Elsewhere, Fever Ray, Paula Temple, and Maral discuss the importance of mistakes.
This week, Music Life features four artists exploring the outer reaches of contemporary electronic music.
Perera Elsewhere was born in London and grew up between the UK, Singapore, and Malaysia. She played guitar and trumpet as a child and was really influenced by pirate radio. Now based in Berlin, she鈥檚 part of the band Jahcoozi, and DJs as Mother Perera. She鈥檚 played shows at iconic venues including Berghain, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Hamburg Philharmonic. She performs in extraordinary stage outfits, and her music has been described as 'Doom-Folk'.
Talking to her is Swedish singer-songwriter and record producer, Karin Dreijer aka Fever Ray. They were one half of the electronic music duo The Knife, and released their debut solo album in 2009. They love to use masks, body paint and intricate costumes when they perform live.
The UK鈥檚 Paula Temple is one of Europe's most in-demand techno artists. She鈥檚 a self-proclaimed 鈥渘oisician鈥� known for making awe-inducing techno, and co-runs the label Noise Manifesto. She鈥檚 a regular on the festival circuit having recently performed at Time Warp, DGTL, Awakenings, and Extrema Outdoor.
Maral is an Iranian-American DJ and producer. She takes snippets of Iranian folk music and poetry, and repurposes them as glitchy sound experiments to bring the Persian classical repertoire to the dancefloor, something she describes in the show as 鈥榡amming with my ancestors鈥�. Her musical creations are driven by artful experimentalism, and last year she released her third album, 鈥楪round Groove鈥�.
Together they鈥檒l be talking about how the space you鈥檙e in effects the music you write, the importance of mistakes or 鈥榗urating errors鈥�, and the significance of technology, particularly when music production software reaches new countries.
In part 2 of the show, Fever Ray presents a playlist they鈥檝e called 鈥楽ome Kind Of Love Songs鈥�, featuring tracks from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Prince, Eurythmics, plus many more.
