Cluster #40 w/ Felicity Mangan – Composer / Performer Concert and Experimental Film Screening

Labor Neunzehn is pleased to invite you to the concert with musician and composer Felicity Mangan. The evening combines a concert and an experimental film screening.

Felicity will present her recent solo LP release “String Figures” (Elevator Bath) Created in the summer of 2024, the six pieces on “String Figures” sample and combine the resonant timbres of strings and electromagnetic textural fields with field recordings from wetlands. These elements were shaped through digital processing into polyphonic, angular assemblages.

“[I]t’s a quiet stunner. I don’t know exactly how she made it […] but the results certainly feel like she’s harnessing waves as they arc through the air.”
— Philip Sherburne, Futurism Restated

Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist and composer based in Berlin. In different situations, such as solo performance, collaborative projects with other musicians or site-specific sound works. Felicity explores the biorhythms and timbres of her found and self-recorded field recordings to create quasi-bioacoustic music.

Felicity has released several solo publications, one on Longform Editions titled Stereo’frog’ic, a play on the word stereophonic – presenting a sound piece, crafted from found recordings of frogs, insects and other ‘vocal’ animals wavering about in a stereo field. As well as Creepy Crawly (Mappa Editions) and Bell Metal Reeds (One Instrument). More recently Wet on Wet (Klangklamm/Warm Winters Ltd.), Train Tracks Recorded and Editing by Felicity Mangan (Possible Motive) and a single Körner Park (Care of Editions). Felicity is due to release her first solo LP String Figures, in August, 2025 (Elevator Bath) Felicity has presented projects in many different settings including Technosphärenklänge CTM/HKW (2019), NEXT TONES, River Toce, Italy (2021) FOCUS - INA GRM (2023) Sonic Acts (2024) and Sonic Narratives, Simultan Festival, TIMIȘOARA, Bega Canal, Romania (2024).

This concert is curated by Labor Neunzehn for Cluster Series and generously supported by inm Berlin e.V

Cluster is a new-music series devoted to the investigation of sound and notation, which provides musicians and composers with an exchange area in Berlin, at the crossroad of compositional and performance practices.