Dronica #65 - Dronica Meets Ellen Southern

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

In this episode, Dronica meets Ellen Southern for our monthly guest mix.

Singer and interdisciplinary artist, Ellen Southern, has woven together a special selection of audio spanning years of her practice, including unreleased live material from the dark-neoclassical group Dead Space Chamber Music, new collaborations and an exclusive long-form premiere, and raw vocal field recordings from her experimental solo work. The result is an intrepid journey through an audio-landscape of varying textures, dynamics and atmospheres.

Ellen Southern is a singer and visual artist from the UK, working with voice, sound and site. Southern is the vocalist in the dark neoclassical quartet Dead Space Chamber Music, also contributing visual art and experimental percussion / found sound. They released their second album, The Black Hours, in December 2021, co-releasing the vinyl with experimental independent label Avon Terror Corps in April 2022.

Southern also co-curates the independent Dark Alchemy event series, often held in unique spaces including crypts and churches, immersing audiences in the acoustics, aesthetic and atmosphere of each unique sacred space.

She has contributed to a variety of acclaimed collaborative projects, including a tour and release with Bristol noise/drone artist BURL (“a meditative séance for increasingly dark times” - Crack Magazine), appearances as part of The SeeR immersive performance collective (Dronica Festival, London, The Woodland Gathering, Cumbria, and Supersonic Festival, Birmingham), and as soloist for the acclaimed ceremonial electronic / AV work Kistvaen by Roly Porter and MFO (Mira Festival, Barcelona, and Les Garages Numériques Festival, Brussels).