against the clock: LONDON COMMUNITY LAPTOP ORCHESTRA and BINT MBAREH

Against the Clock is the first of its kind. Here we share stories with no beginning middle or end. Our first AtC is at Vesper's. We love Vesper's. We invite you to watch Bint Mbareh and London Community Laptop Orchestra spiralling in doom-based hypnoses. all welcome <3

THE LONDON COMMUNITY LAPTOP ORCHESTRA IS A COMMUNITY RUN LAPTOP ORCHESTRA MAKING SOUNDS IN A VARIETY OF UNUSUAL PLACES. THE LCLO HOLDS A COMMUNITY ETHOS WHERE ANYONE CAN PARTICIPATE.

INSPIRED BY GROUPS LIKE THE 1969-1974'S SCRATCH ORCHESTRA AND WITH A FOCUS ON GUERRILLA PERFORMANCES, WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE LAPTOP AS A TOOL FOR LOCALISED COLLECTIVE CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE.

OUR POLITICS ARE EXPLICIT BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BE. SOUND ART SPACES CAN BE ISOLATING, ELITIST, EXCLUSIONARY AND BIGOTED. WE AIM TO BE ACTIVE IN BREAKING THOSE STEREOTYPES.

FOUNDED AND (CURRENTLY) RUN BY KAT MACDONALD.

BINT mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in palestine. her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. she challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.