The Hemi-Ballistic Electric Ensemble is a new work that brings together a collective interested in kinetic sculpture, costume and musical instrument design. Taking inspiration from the psychological anomaly, Folie à deux (a shared delusional psychosis). The Hemi-Ballistic Electric Ensemble create an immersive audio-visual experience, where musicians and sound sculptures merge into Svankmajer-esq realms of the unreal. An orchestral suite of bone, hair, glass, steel and stone, Inducer utilises classical instrumentation and new media technologies to conjure electric-shamanistic sounds from decaying industrial detritus. At once beautiful and obscene.
About the artists
Jack Wrigley, Sarah Milne and Robbie Thomson are Glasgow based artist’s and members of tGlasgow based multidisciplinary art collective, 85a.
Wrigley works in multiple media including photography, holography, fictional prose, musical instrument design and build, concrete composition, installation and mechanical high voltage sculpture. Past work has utilised themes of re-invention, pseudo science, time bent vaudevillian re-staging, illusion, magic, malady, melody, bus stations, B-movie horror narrative, sexy cricket, solipsism, migraine and the convergence and juxtaposition of opposing realities. He seeks to explicate a re-integration of the unconscious into the conscious, through experimentation and craft.
Milne’s core focus in on textiles, whose work deals with conventions of beauty, gender roles and ‘non-identities’ – creating alternate personas through interaction with costume and clothing. Her work seeks to challenge preconceived notions of the body through the use of ‘abject’ materials, symbolic body ornamentation and by augmenting body shape.
Thomson works with kinetic sculpture, sound and installation. Past works include an animatronic beast, a gallery buried under the floorboards, a robotic French waiter, a wooden labyrinth, organic cable cars and self playing pianos. His latest work merges MIDI sequencing with kinetic theatre to create crude analog transcripts of electronic music.
