So Where To Today?

Birmingham

What: Louis Carnell @ Pan-Pan

When: Tuesday September 30 20:00

111’ is an endeavour to trace the shape of hope, in an epoch of disintegration, a curatorial statement from Louis Carnell.

Each event brings 3 live performances rooted in the expression of Carnell’s collaborative record that shares the same name.

‍Elena Isolini

Elena Isolini layers sounds and vocals, creating warped, ambient orchestral loops - all in the essence of finding an environment to heal. She is a long-time collaborator with Bianca Scout, their album ‘Our Hearts’ explores narrative led composition through slow motion, character-like vocalisations that render remote scenes of fabled icy landscapes. It was presented at Cafe Oto and The White Hotel et al. Elena is also a Director & Production Designer working in film. Amongst her achievements are contributions to multiple award winning films, two-time nomination for Best Production Design at the UKMVAs & contribution to feature length ‘Ish’ due to premiere at Venice Critics Week 2025. She has directed and created music videos & documentation for Bianca Scout, Marikiscrycrycry and Blackhaine. Her latest E.P ‘Grade One’ centres around the cello - celebrating amateuristic expression without classical technique. The E.P’s title is in reference to never making it past grade one in the musical grading system. The music feels informed by the day to day of being surrounded in a chasm of cinematics and storytelling laced with swirling loops and distant echoes.

Louis Carnell

Louis Carnell is a musician, artist, and curator. Carnell’s work has deep in its heart a concern with both the physical and digital environments, currently releasing on Mute Records. With an extensive history in experimental music, his previous venture included performances globally (London Contemporary Music Festival, Rewire, Mira) this vein continued with a contribution to Issue Project Room & a number of performances & curated events across Europe (Cafe Oto, Roter Salon, Casa Montjuic, Volumes Festival, et al) His live performance ‘17’, a number Louis holds dear as he shares it with his Granny in terms of the day they were born on. Music is formed in restriction of 17 elements, and incorporates sounds from CD’s Louis inherited after his Granny’s passing. The music infuses ambient & drone electronics, choral rituals, the voice & song creating work of condition & reflection, as he seeks to find light from an unguarded darkness, encouraging an act of stillness. Louis Carnell’s record ‘111’ emerged as a cycle of 15 single releases, with the aim of creating an environment for the listener to explore the series without hierarchy, questioning how and with whom we collaborate, and where we can find commonality & community.

Consumed

Consumed, stage name of Charlie Soffe, is a British artist working on the edge of image and Music. Soffe’s sound works reshape guitar feedback into the sonic residue of the city—where the churning gears and low-end drones of the city force their way through sustained tones, breaking down inertia and resistance. Within this mechanical distortion, a space for introspection and catharsis emerges: endlessly amplified, emotionally charged, and deeply human.

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How Much:

• Pan-Pan

• Louis Carnell

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