Sholto Dobie / Jessie Marino / Fred Frith

Sholto Dobie is an artist and organiser working across various sound-related contexts, using a singular performative language to create listening situations that play with relations between a given environment, gathering of people and unfolding of time. He involves various sound sources, including self-made pipe instruments, accordions and voice, that both reflect and integrate interests in sonic phenomenon, traditional instrument construction and folklore.

Jessie Marino’s 'SLOW BLINK' pushes the fiddle into radical new territory. Paired with electronics, the instrument becomes a generator of raw energy, producing walls of sound that are at once overwhelming and hypnotic. Built from dense layers of distortion, saturation and finely tuned intonation, the piece creates a sonic environment that resists resolution and invites deep immersion.

Fred Frith is both a singular musical figure and a gathering of musical lifetimes. He is the composer of avant-garde works in the tradition of John Cage and Earle Brown; the innovator who reimagined underground rock with Henry Cow; the improviser who forged a language all his own on the guitar. His solo debut 'Guitar solos' cracked open a space between rock and experimental music. 50 years later, 'Fifty' continues to ask what music is – and what it can be – with a presence that is both rare and vital.

Produced by hcmf// supported by Lithuanian Culture Institute and Music Information Centre Lithuania

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