L’Aubaine will be performing visuals for this set.
The Stage
Saturday 21:25
Elizabeth J. Birch is an undefined glitch, forging beeps and boops into a construction of sound. An award-winning musician, she distorts the boundaries with a combination of synthesisers, haunting vocals, and repurposed everyday objects to challenge what music is, how it’s constructed, who the builders of music are, and who gets to be in the room when it happens. Her output is equal parts mechanical precision and unpolished human error, evidencing that even glitches can have purpose.
Elizabeth was featured as one of the Mastercard Music Trailblazers ahead of the 2024 BRIT awards, recognised as an artist driving systematic change in the music industry across technology, diversity & inclusion. She’s on a mission to recalibrate the music industry into a more accessible and inclusive industry for all.
A producer, composer, vocalist, and self-confessed tech-enthusiast, Elizabeth’s EP, Kenopsia (2023), delved into the weighty terrain of loss and grief, wrapping raw emotion with electronic textures and evocative melodies. Her projects have received radio support from BBC Introducing, Unmade Radio and Black Country Radio.
That same year, she won Youth Music’s ‘Inspirational Music Leader’ award for her inclusive community workshops, focused around songwriting, technology and amplifying youth voice — proof that even in a machine-driven world, human connection remains central.
To sum up, she bridges the gap between human and machine, asks a lot of questions, and makes noises. Sometimes, they even sound good.
L’Aubaine
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L’Aubaine (Laurie Bender) is a visual artist and performer, exploring the interconnection between image and sound, projections into the spatial dimension, as well as different narrative forms.
She performed in many set ups from underground raves, club nights to big festivals in UK and continental Europe, adding real-time and audio-reactive visuals to electronic music.
L’Aubaine (Laurie Bender) is a visual artist and performer from Geneva (CH), based in London. For over 15 years, she has been exploring the interconnection between real-time visuals and sound, projections into the spatial dimension, as well as different narrative forms.
She performed in many set ups from underground raves, club nights to big festivals in UK and continental Europe, as a live visual artist and professional VJ. She’s been adding real-time and audioreactive visuals to electronic music (DJ sets and live acts), in Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, Boomtown, Le Zoo/Usine (CH), Splice festival (London), E1 club, Outernet, Manchester Pride, Art Vision VJ contest (Moscow), Visual Brasil (ES), etc. She also been VJing for big shows and club nights using provided content such as Partiboi69 (Printworks, 2022), Or:la (Sonar Festival, 2022).
Laurie was one of the three visual artists featuring in Resident Advisor (RA), Art + Sound published in Oct 2021. Commissioned to create an audiovisual piece, added with interviews and showcasing her work flow and inspiration.
She was also one of the four visual artists to participate to Prada Extends, event curated by Richie Hawtin at the Tate, London in Nov 2021.
L’Aubaine also loves projecting out of the simple rectangular screen with multi-screens, projection mapping and in immersive environments (fulldome, 360°).
She participated with live and recorded projection mapping in Genius Loci Weimar (DE), Serum Light Festival (SK), Live Mapping Contests at LPM, projected live visuals in the dome in Shambala festival.
She brings you on a seamless visual journey, creating composition live like a painter on her canvas. Organic, graphical, abstract or figurative, she crafted her unique style over the years, mixing self-produced content, using analogue and digital techniques, 2D, 3D, hand-drawn animations, motion graphics, and footages. She also perform analogue visuals set with video synths and video mixer.
In her AV performances and narrative projects, she expresses socio/politics/psychological concerns and often collaborates with a producer/DJ or musician for the audio aspect.
She also creates music videos, visuals, graphic/motion design for artists and record labels.
With the covid pandemic, she’s been preparing visuals for music streaming events such as UKF, Lost Horizon festival, Eclipselunar, University of Tropical Sounds and also participated in events with live streaming visuals.
L’Aubaine was part of VJ London organisation team, from 2015 till 2020, where she organised many of the monthly meet-up & showcases. With VJ London they also organised bigger events (AV Depot, London Is Dead) with interactive installations, AV performances with artists based in the London area and international.
