Live
Music made in one pass, in the room, with the audience in it.
The method
Unstable Systems
Unstable Systems is Giles Lamb’s live performance practice: music made in one pass, in the moment, played at the point where a part-stable, part-unpredictable system is about to fall apart. Nothing is decided in advance and nothing is fixed afterward. It is the wrangle between human and machine, human expression encoded in the act of shaping what comes out. The opposite of generative polish: musicality and intention, played live in a room.
The live recordings are released as they accumulate. Orbital Fifths, roughly forty minutes played in a single take, is the first.
Releases →The event
Ùrlar
/ˈuːr-lər/ · OOR-lar
Scottish Gaelic — ground; the foundational theme of a pibroch, from which every variation departs and to which it returns.
A deep-listening performance: piano and modular synthesis in a quadraphonic spatial sound field, with slow projected light on scrim and the surfaces of the room itself. The audience sit, or lie down.
It is not a concert, and not an ambient background set. Contemplative, not audio-reactive.
Ùrlar is the event. Unstable Systems is the method underneath it.
Ùrlar is an occasional series — each edition shaped by its room and an invited guest performer. A format that suits rooms not built as music venues: 20–60 capacity depending on layout, ticketed, with a fair split.
“To listen is to open to the possibility of change.”Pauline Oliveros
Dates
Dates coming soon.
Programmers and venues — enquiries welcome.
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