holr + kwerk

An experimental format starting with an academic micro-lecture and discussion followed by electronic music and post-rock ensemble performances.

**Presentation / discussion: "Supra-modernity: "The Tone of Our Times?"**

Facilitated by Dr. j Milo Taylor, academic researching a book exploring "malevolent audio".

This first public presentation of some initial ideas is based upon anthropologist Marc Augé's 1990's notion of "non-place"; the proliferation of generic spaces of transience (shopping centres, airports, housing estates etc). How do the transformations of time, space and hyper-individuated identity associated with non-places resonant in 2026?

Might our current moment be characterised by an update of Augé's "super-modernity" to a "supra-modernity?

**kWeRk** Hackney sound artist *kWeRk* explores rhythm, texture & emotion via the language of abstract electronic sonics. Active since the 90s *kWeRk* plays with the mangling & modulation of synthesized sounds & field recordings; warping & sculpting audio, finding feeling in fragments.

https://artkwerk.bandcamp.com/album/mirai-otoko https://www.instagram.com/kwerksoundpower

**holr** (4-piece experimental post-rock ensemble) caustic-resonant, afterimage-patient ensemble architectures draw long-toned acoustic remainder from the algorithmic fault line. sectional & durational: a sea of glass. double bass / drums / electric guitar / electronics

https://soundcloud.com/malevolent-audio-systems