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Electro pop & cabaret performance act employing voice,
electronic sounds, a few props and occasional acoustic guitar.
Imagine Theodor Adorno's "Aesthetic Theory" distilled into
Chas & Dave singing an MA paper, or alternatively the FT letters
page as sung by Soft Cell, and you get the general idea. Project
Adorno have also written and performed a number of art-house multimedia productions
including biographical interpretations of Derek Jarman, Dennis
Potter and, most recently, the Brontës.
These works include film, spoken samples and found sound in
addition to songs and poems. |
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Queer Pop
Words, beats, tunes & tales featuring…
Project
Adorno
Songs and spoken word
exploring gender fluidity, the confusion of non-conformity,
and the snap and crackle of popular culture as an 80s child
comes of age in discovering their true identity. Witty,
playful and poignant lyrics set to an electro-pop soundtrack.
Song
of true identity by Project Adorno
From the Album On
becoming Blousey Brown
Drunk
Keith!
Low fidelity
infidelities and left field electro pop channelling the
acerbic wit of Luke Haines and Mark E. Smith alongside the
perverse pop aesthetic of Momus and Mozart Estate. Oblique and
highly amusing narratives where counter cultural identity and
idiosyncratic eccentricities collide.
Perfumed
Ponces by Drunk Keith!
Queer Pop live performance coming soon! Watch this space
for details
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Jarman
in Pieces 2024
On the 30th anniversary year of Jarman's death Project
Adorno will be performing special performances of their
acclaimed Jarman in Pieces show.
Filmmaker,
painter, gay rights activist, author, gardener – Derek
Jarman packed many roles into a short life. Twenty years
from his death, his standing has never been higher. And
yet he remains a contradictory figure: a self-effacing
exhibitionist, a well-to-do RAF child who embraced the
possibilities of punk. For decades, he was a thorn in the
establishment’s side and yet is now dangerously close to
something he would have hated – the status of national
treasure.
A performance collage comprising
original songs, film, interviews with people who knew
Jarman, ambient sounds and spoken word that aims to
celebrate these contrasts rather than reconcile them.
“A
multi-media experience with a good deal of entertaining
and thought-provoking music”
ScotsGay
magazine.
Weds
21 February 2024
Bom-Bane’s Café, 24 George Street, Brighton, BN2 1RH
Show
time 7.30pm (1 hour performance, no interval)
More
details and further shows to be added |
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On
becoming Blousey Brown (Mar 2023) - listen online at
Soundcloud
Pop songs exploring gender-fluidity as an '80s child comes of age in
discovering their true identity. Written over the course of a
year, the songs represent a personal journey through gender,
difference, popular culture and how one wishes to present to the world.
Viewed contemporaneously, from a middle-aged perspective, the songs
inevitably unlock memories of a childhood that only with
hindsight point to the person one might become.
Live
performance as part of Brighton Fringe on Fri 2 & Sat 3
June 2023. Details here.
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Virtually
- Project Adorno Album (Aug 2021) - listen online
Words and music blurring the boundaries between the real and
the unreal. Explorations in make-believe, what-ifs, truths and deceptions. As analogue sensibilities fuse with digital artifice do
we really know what is real anymore, and does it really matter? |
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When
Morten Harket Hit the High Notes - Project Adorno album (June 2020)-
listen online
A collection of songs
exploiting PA's favourite themes: reminiscence, nostalgia,
evocation and memory. It's very pop and very 1980s.
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Project
Adorno at Dodo Modern Poets - Virtual Gig (May 2020)
A lock-down special
featuring songs old and new as Project Adorno perform in
real-time from different locations - the results are somewhat
amusing. |
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