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Catch Mira Calix Live

The wonderfully unique song-mistress plays some live dates.

It’s shaping up to be a good summer if you’re a Mira Calix fan, which means it’s shaping up to be a good summer for us all. The composer-artist will be touring both sides of the Atlantic, bringing her unconventional melodies and rhythms, and her experimental sounds made from organic matter, to the deserving masses.

On June 3 she’ll be playing the sleepy British seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea at De La Warr Pavilion on the marina. A perfect way to spend a summer’s eve if ever there was one. After this, on June 12 she’ll be going back to her DJing roots mixing on the wheels of steel with Andrea Parker as the Freaky Bitches DJ Set at Clandestino Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden. Then she’ll be bringing a collaborative project with fellow Creators United Visual Artists, called Chorus, to London. An installation that was first shown at Durham Cathedral, this piece features eight massive motorized pendulums that emit oscillating frequencies determined by their movements. It will also be brought along to London as part of the Wapping Project. That show is free and will be there from June 16 to July 18. Lastly, on June 27 she’ll be in New York City to play the Bang On A Can Marathon, a “12-hour super-mix of genre-defying music from around the corner and the globe.” Sounds groovy.

Have a listen above to her and Oliver Coates’s otherworldly cover of Boards of Canada’s “In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country.” It’s wondrous.