Morphine Raum is thrilled to announce Scottish experimental/electronic musician Drew McDowall in residency over 2 consecutive nights. The former member of Coil, Psychic TV, The Poems will be performing his latest work “A Thread, Silvered and Trembling” on DAIS Records. Opening Live set by Marta De Pascalis.

An artist who has refused to conform in music and in life, McDowall mines the hallucinatory spaces that exist between reality and celestial otherness. His meditative compositions are haunting and spiritual, melding intricate modular soundscapes with cut-up samples, and deconstructing sounds into their most basic shuddering structures and shapes. The disorienting ambient mirages that result elicit terror, tender melancholy, and heavenly flickers of expansive beauty.

His latest work, A Thread, Silvered and Trembling, both incorporates and transforms these elements via exploratory electronic processing, weaving an electro-acoustic tapestry of strings, shudders, voids, and voices, alternately disembodied and displaced. Co-produced with engineer Randall Dunn at Circular Ruin Studios in Brooklyn, the collection’s four pieces capture McDowall at his most elevated and elusive, in thrall to “the ineffable – that which refuses to be spoken.”
Photo by Lena Shkoda

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Marta De Pascalis’ sonic world acts as an uncanny translator that freezes and expands emotions, conveying them into unique soundscapes. Her solo works employ analog, fm synthesis, and a tape-loop system, whereby she carves waveforms to shape cathartic sound bodies. Sky Flesh, her latest album, has been published on Caterina Barbieri’s Light-Years imprint.
Photo by George Nebieridze