Tuff Palace & The Servo presents
Lucas Abela // Myst Mach // Clocks & Clouds
Maverick musician Lucas Abelas ecstatic performances with shards of amplified glass
are the stuff of legend. Their practice emerged within the noise underground, where the
glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile
instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica. Played somewhat like a
bellow-less electric reed instrument, Abela subtly vibrates their lips against the shards edges
to transmit micro-sonic vibrations into the pane. This single source of audio feeds a
- complex array of processing giving the instrument the illusion of ghostly accompaniment
forming dense layers of anomalous music. The sound coaxed from such an unorthodox
instrument is formed between the symbiotic relationship the glass shares with the acoustics
of place, together they become a means to play space itself, which by no uncertain terms is
best experienced live in a shared space.
Such a singular approach to music creation has attracted the attention of some of the
worlds most adventurous musicians sometimes resulting in serendipitous collaborations
with the likes of; Lou Reed, Yamatsuka Eye (Boredoms), Dave Grohl (Nirvana), Flaming Lips
(Peel Session), Trey Spruance (Mr Bungle), Deerhoof, Merzbow, Chris Abrahams, Oren
Ambarchi, Senyawa, Death Grips etc.