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Holly Herndon, Barbican London
Audio-visual excellence from an electronic music pioneer
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
FOREVER pushing the boundaries of electronic music’s potential, Holly Herndon will never settle on simply performing behind a laptop, as this show proves.
Joined onstage by a vocal ensemble and collaborator Mathew Dryhurst, Herndon gives a full run-through of her acclaimed third album PROTO, a stunning achievement that explores the relationship between humans and technology.
On the album, Herndon introduces Spawn, a singing AI that she has been developing over a number of years with Dryhurst and programmer Jules LaPlace.
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