The Joyous Thing 3 # Queer Climate: Under Stories from the South Pennines (Jo Kennedy and Ryoko Akama)

Presented by Outlands, The Joyous Thing 3 is an annual gathering for the UK experimental music community and anyone with a curious ear. 2022's event featured an in person programme at MK Gallery, with newly commissioned works by Coby Sey, TACO!, ame, Lost Property, Eastern Ear, MK Gallery/Simon Wright, Tor Festival, Daniel W G Mackenzie, and Lukas Hornby; and live performances from emerging artists I Am Fya and Euso, plus DJ sets from Outlands members.

ame presents a one-hour show from a kitchen in the South Pennines. Jo and Ryoko reflect on everyday existence in a time of environmental crisis, and their personal reactions to this state of affairs.

Expect the sounds of blanket bogs, ethical cake, lost species, queerness, and the silence of electric cars.

Produced by Jo Kennedy and Ryoko Akama

Jo Kennedy lives in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. She works in a freelance capacity in the realm of sound and is engaged in a variety of activities, including taking field-recordings, making sound art and sound walks, producing a podcast, running technical and creative workshops, and recording and editing sound for other people.

Ryoko Akama works with installation, performance and composition. Interested in non-western cultural thinking and perception, her artistic practice examines environment, architecture, cause & effect, sociological structure & pattern. She also composes and performs a diversity of alternative scores in collaboration with other artists and musicians worldwide.