Kayla Painter

About

KAYLA PAINTER LIVE SPATIAL 3D AUDIO-VISUAL SHOW

Supported by Matthew North’s Department Factory

Exeter Phoenix auditorium, Wednesday 10 September, 7.30pm

About Kayla Painter…

Kayla Painter is an acclaimed experimental sound artist, musician, producer and DJ and we are pleased to host a special live audio-visual show tailored to the Phoenix auditorium!

Painter’s immersive, ever-evolving AV performances are a natural consequence of the entire writing process – the visuals figure into the earliest stages of her music. 2024 saw her biggest release to date, with her debut album ‘Fractures’. Written about NASA’s mission to Jupiter's Frozen moon.

Kayla was awarded ‘Best Electronic Album of the year’ by Bandcamp for ‘Fractures’, as well as the Women Make Music PRSF award for the album’s creation.

Having grown up as a multi-instrumentalist, and playing in more conventional bands at University, Painter’s personal journey led her deeper into electronic music production. Her academic work focuses on the human relationship with sound, and this is reflected in her compositions.

She is a passionate explorer of the creative potential within field recording (see: Ambient Owl Core a genre Painter coined to describe her ambient music with field recordings of Owls); her compositions bristle with self-sourced timbres captured in an enduring spirit of experimentation. She also uses her platform to explore specific themes both personal and external: 2018’s Cannibals At Sea grappled with her mixed Fijian-British heritage, juxtaposing Pacific islander beliefs with British working class values in a compelling exploration of her own identity and the wider world around her. 2021 EP Somewhen followed similar themes of her heritage this time exploring lost and vibrant future landscapes and Kayla’s personal relationships with her Fijian-British heritage. Drenched with synths, rich sounds and bright colours, the EP and accompanying visuals envisage a lost future that brings two cultures together. Somewhen is looking into the past to create a new future with a dream like familiarity.

Kayla Painter is a visiting lecturer in creative composition and electronic music production at a host of Higher Education institutes. She works with education charities to deliver workshops, mentor individuals, and create course content. Her teaching spans a range of topics relating to being a musician in today's world, from creative composition, field recording, studio ideas, to grant applications and surviving as a musician in the landscape. Underpinned by an authentic drive for creation, her lectures and workshops prove popular and inspiring for attendees.

Her most notable panel appearance was alongside Laurie Anderson and Hannah Peel, for the WITCiH digital festival and Kayla currently hosts a monthly radio show on Resonance Extra.

About Matthew North’s Department Factory…

Live support comes from Matthew North’s Department Factory, a rare performance of improvised instrumental progressive music involving looping guitars and synthesizers from the man behind All Living Fear and Secrets for September.

This event is a fundraiser for Exeter community radio station Phonic FM.