Famously known as grandmaster The Bug to those with a soft spot for heavy sub-bass action, Kevin Richard Martin arrives at Lunchmeat under his legal name, and with possibly the slowest recording of his to date. Glacial, slow-motion excavation of drug-tech, dub, dreamy noise, and frozen ambience, his album Sub Zero delivers hypnotic pulsations and piercing melancholia. It’s still dub, only disappearing in the many layers of its own effects, going through a metamorphosis, reappearing as a sonic environment. He will be joined by London-based visual artist Charlie Hope, who uses light, motion, space, video, and coding as building blocks for creating sensorial images and environments across sound, performance and installation. Together, they will conjure a heavy audiovisual storm that was informed by their conversations about disorientation, weather systems, and haunted sonic landscapes, implementing Hope’s own custom-built 360° laser system. Premiered at ICA London earlier this year, Sub Zero gets its first reprise at Lunchmeat Festival. 

Charlie Hope’s work involves crafting multi-textured environments, frequently as a collaboration in various contexts; he worked with Lucy Railton, Rebecca Salvadori, Kali Malone, GAISTER (Coby Sey, Olivia Salvadori, Akihide Monna), Moin, Tirzah, and Nkisi, to name a few, and his work has been shown at festivals like ICA London, Tate Modern, Berghain, Le Guess Who?, Rewire, Atonal, and CTM.

 
Kevin Richard Martin
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Charlie Hope
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