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ISN'TSES - AUDIO VISUAL, HARSH FUN PERFORMERS
Isn'tses are Lisa McKendrick and Tim Drage. The duo generates a sonic eruption of musical genres, encompassing dance music, aggressive vocals, techno rave, psytrance, noise, metal, and industrial influences. They are attracted to the textural qualities and disruptive sonic elements of noise, as well as the emotional and rhythmic pulses of beats.
Their performances incorporate unconventional elements like lightsabers, iridescent costumes and other light toys or props. This deliberate inclusion serves as an act of rebellion against the often intimidating or austere aesthetics associated with harsh noise. Rather than diluting the intensity, their intention is to subvert expectations, inviting the audience to reconsider their preconceived notions about the relationship between aggression and amusement. By interweaving these unexpected props into their performance, they reshape the narrative, challenging preconceptions and introducing an unexpected layer of harsh fun.
Isn'tses are Lisa McKendrick and Tim Drage. The duo generates a sonic eruption of musical genres, encompassing dance music, aggressive vocals, techno rave, psytrance, noise, metal, and industrial influences. They are attracted to the textural qualities and disruptive sonic elements of noise, as well as the emotional and rhythmic pulses of beats.
Their performances incorporate unconventional elements like lightsabers, iridescent costumes and other light toys or props. This deliberate inclusion serves as an act of rebellion against the often intimidating or austere aesthetics associated with harsh noise. Rather than diluting the intensity, their intention is to subvert expectations, inviting the audience to reconsider their preconceived notions about the relationship between aggression and amusement. By interweaving these unexpected props into their performance, they reshape the narrative, challenging preconceptions and introducing an unexpected layer of harsh fun.
Booking Enquiries: [email protected]
Isn’tses in Action :
Isn’tses have performed recently at Circuit Control Dresden, Gate Festival UK, C.Rockefeller Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Mayhem Night, Spanners, Electropixel Festival, Baba Yaga's Hut Raw Power Festival, Renaissance Alternative Music Festival 2022, DISSOLVING BOUNDARIES, Sonic Electronics Festival 2019, Hackoustic Presents, coding in GE> 2018, Fort Process 2018, Baba Yaga's Hut New Years EEE Party, Liminality (Cacophony, Gallery 46), No Format Gallery, Festival Bergerie #3, France, Modern Panic VIII, Dronica, Woodland Gathering, Bunker Theatre, SOTU Festival Amsterdam.
They played live on Resonance FM (Bad Punk, The Wrong Show, Bermuda Triangle Test Transmission), Cashmere Radio Berlin and were played on Graham Dunning’s NTS Radio show “Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone” Isn'tses have released recordings as hand-crafted cassette editions including “Punctum” and “Ultimate Problem of Documentation”. They were featured in catalogue and cd compilation for 3 Years of Dronica and artist compilation for Sonic Electronics Festival.
"London-based duo of Lisa McKendrick and Tim Drage, have a wicked sense of humour and a unique visual aesthetic, dressing in bespoke sequinned costumes which make them look like displaced grapplers from an obscure Japanese indy wrestling division. Mere eye candy they ain’t, mind: Punctum, their third self-released cassette, is an epic 90 minutes of obscurely crafted analogue machine gurgle – “an album of mysterious origin”, the sole description on the Bandcamp page, may not specifically refer to its methodology but certainly could." - Noel Gardner, The Quietus
“you can’t replicate that signature sound you have....so dense and full of detail and movement....a different use of space...really tight and immediate and close” - Bermuda Triangle Test Transmissions, Resonance FM
Contact: [email protected]
Instagram @lisa_mckendrick
Live at IKLECTIK
