A Live Musical Response to Gated Canyons

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Join us for an evening of live music in the Chapel as Touching Bass invites Rohan Ayinde, Afromerm and felix taylor — three artists within their community and musical orbit — to present new works, made in direct response to Rachel Jones’ artistry and exhibition Gated Canyons.

Touching Bass is the London-based cultural hub and musical movement encompassing an award-nominated record label, club night, concert series (most recently in collaboration with The Barbican), staple NTS Radio show and curatorial studio. Led by Errol and Alex Rita, it has earned cult status for its dedication to tastemaking musical eclecticism, intention and community approach.

You can enjoy the performances and the exhibition, just watch the performance, or enjoy the exhibition, and soak up the vibes with food and drink vendors in our gardens.

If you'd like to watch the performance and see the exhibition, you'll receive a Promo Code with your ticket, allowing you to book exhibition entry at anytime for just £5.

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afromerm

afromerm is the solo project of Oram Award-winning composer and sound artist, Cecilia Morgan.

Her work draws from contemporary, jazz and experimental disciplines, blending electronic elements with live instrumentation, field recordings, spoken and sung vocalisations, and her self-built motion-reactive instrument, Juniper, to create electroacoustic soundscapes that immerse us into the elemental mythology of her project.

felix taylor

felix taylor is an artist and composer from South London primarily interested in memory, loss and hauntings.

In his installation work, felix explores the distortions that arise when music and sound is recorded and reproduced, looking to graphic scores, FM radio and custom built, percussive amplifiers. His works have featured in Turf Projects (with Croydon Borough of Culture), The ICA, London Museum, Nunnery Gallery, DIVFUSE Galler and the streets of Cardiff (with Gentle / Radical collective).

Rohan Ayinde

Rohan Ayinde is an interdisciplinary artist and poet based between London and Chicago. His work traverses audio, visual and literary forms and often embraces installation and performance. 

Through an entanglement with the phenomenon of the black hole, his practice attempts to excavate an architecture of ideology through the analytical framework of black feminist thought. Investigating how the politics of place intersects with the conceptual, his poems, drawings, videos and performance work are translations and sketches of landscapes built from a freedom best imagined by writers like Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, Lola Olufemi and Edouard Glissant.

Alex Rita (DJ set)

Alex Rita is the Copenhagen-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist, DJ, mother and creative director of TOUCHING BASS and CALM ROOTS founder. 

As a DJ, the combination of a childhood spent in Danish nature and over a decade in London have instilled a passion for the organic, percussive and deeply soulful. It's an approach which has brought her across four continents; from some of Europe’s finest dancefloors and East Africa to multiple tours of Oceania and Asia.