Elvin Brandhi (UK)
Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist and beat producer instigating projects of improvised socio-aesthetic overflow expanding haphazardly with circus intent. The main body of her education takes shape via contextual shifts and collaborations, as alternative to institutional micro-mythological artistic specialization and ladder climbing self-optimisation. Her practice involves performing wherever and whenever possible, composing audio-sonic essays, videos, sample-based beats and theatrical public hacking. She uses sound and image as an expansive gestural-emotive language transgressing intrinsic systemics and inherited syntactical etiquettes. Her performances are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. She currently has no base, expanding sonic mutation as a constantly morphing communicational code. She performs in various collaborations such as 'Yeah You', which was released on Alter, Slip, Opal, Psychik Dancehall and Good Food. Other groups include 'Bad@Maths', 'INSIN', 'Gailvn Keiln', User Syndrome, BAHK (a collaboration with Daniel Blumberg), Pollution Opera (with Nadah El Shazly), and Soul Sick (with DJ Scotch Egg), among many collaborations. In 2017, she was given a PRS Oram Award for Innovative Female Musicians, which funded her ongoing portable studio project, making albums anywhere anytime without anyone, battery-op, in the interest of de-formalising music production.
