Performing with Federico Reuben – Fuel Cafe – Manchester – 12/07/12

Fed­erico Reuben is a com­poser, sound artist and live-electronics per­former based in Lon­don. His work chal­lenges con­ven­tional rela­tion­ships between com­poser, per­former and audi­ence through imag­ined per­for­mance prac­tices, col­lab­o­ra­tions and modes of sonic rep­re­sen­ta­tion and pro­duc­tion. He plun­ders, com­bines and alters cul­tural objects (record­ings, live per­for­mances, scores, etc.) through dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to pro­duce amor­phous and absurd sound worlds. He is inter­ested in how through sound, affect can be trans­ferred, mod­u­lated and dis­torted. His work has been described as a ‘house of mir­rors’ — a space where expec­ta­tions are play­fully dis­torted, where the bizarre and ridicu­lous are pre­ferred over the ordi­nary, and where self-reflection is under­stood only through humour.