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Floating World Pictures - FWP - 浮?繪 launches their debut LP "The Twenty-three Views" at Café OTO with a special presentation in 2 short sets, featuring new large ensemble pieces written especially for the show. A loose London collective of artists and instrumentalists led by Chestnutt, producer & member of Snapped Ankles, and Raimund Wong, a sound artist most recognised for his graphics work with International Anthem & Church of Sound.

While the recorded output has detailed non-quantized production at its heart, the live setup is driven by improvisation and collective gestures within the framework of cassette tape loops manipulations, live signal processing and analogue synthesis provided by the duo. Alongside a shifting cast they spin a sensuous, densely populated soundscape: bird song and flowing waterfall synths, a rainforest of hisses and a thrumming hive of life while in the distance the metallic snaps of drums conjure people working. Fragments of found dialogue, melodies and environmental sounds punctures impressionistic passages, focussing the performance as a way of searching and recontextualising.

At this LP launch FWP celebrates a wider independent network with the following guests:

Akihide Monna (Bo Ningen)
Alabaster DePlume
Andy Channing (Unrest Work & Play / Lila Cita)
Cathy Eastburn (Southbank Gamelan Players)
Charles Prest (Flamingods / Noon Garden)
Clémentine March
Danalogue (The Comet is Coming)
Kamal Rasool (Flamingods)
Nick Woodmansey (Emanative)

This is an 18+ event

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The Print House,

Dalston,

London,

Greater London,

England,

E8 3DL.