Upper Ups

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Upper Ups - teaser - from the Utopia EP
Calix’s return to electronic instrumentation and the laid-back dance floor, is routed in the physical landscape. By creating creating these frameworks and parameters she uses found sound, off cuts of existing sonic material from her personal library, taking a collage approach to music. Exploring this fragmented approach further, she deploys her own voice as an instrument, a cut up that refractures and recontextualises the material in order to conceive a sound that is directly influenced by sight.
rightclick was made specifically for the film, the subsequent 3 tracks followed on and were very much conceived as an EP in graphic form, a sonic découpé if you will. The concepts behind the individual tracks’ riffs stem from the role of the muse, the male gaze, nostalgia vs modernity and the distribution and categorisation of art and the utopian idyll: upper ups references the muses of some of the world’s most famous artists, bite me, a podcast discourse on art, while just go along explores escape, obsession and the male gaze.
Even Calix’s cover artwork, a photomontage, takes the same approach as her music. A gatherum of sculptural self-portraiture featuring her abstracted anatomy taking flight, offering a combination of annexed collages that reflect the colour and form of the music within.
Calix has always created drawings and graphic material as part of composition process - visible on her Calix Portal - where she has been releasing material old and new from installation-based work over the past 18 months.

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