The final iteration of Garden Nights this season is Intentions, The Crescent Moon, a late summer evening blending mystical, musical and spiritual tones with experimental harpist and singer-songwriter Xiaoqiao, composer and musician Maxwell Sterling, and Extensive Conversations studio’s curator and artist Maxine Pennington.
Garden Nights is a seasonal programme of multi-disciplinary live events at Camden Art Centre’s Garden.
Maxine Pennington is a multidisciplinary artist and curator who has a deep appreciation for the transformative energy that art holds. Through her practices, she seeks to explore and express a multitude of emotions through the lens of sound, creating unique sonic experiences. In her creations, she remains deeply rooted in spirituality and emotion ensuring that intention permeates every level.
Xiaoqiao is a London-based experimental harpist and singer-songwriter. Her work explores the unspoken space of the psyche and lucid dreaming with her ethereal electronic experiments on harp and vocals, creating dream-like sonic journeys. She has featured and played for Lucinda Chua’s latest EP, and performed at the Lisson Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts. Her debut EP is releasing September 2024.
Maxwell Sterling is a composer, producer, musician and artist, originally from Manchester. Maxwell’s debut record Hollywood Medieval (Death of Rave, 2016) set out his fascination with the glitches between the traditions of acoustic and synthesized music. His album Turn of Phrase (AD93, 2021) takes inspiration from both Gregorian chants and hyper-modern digital processing and synthesis.In early 2022, his EP with Martha Skye Murphy, Distance on Ground (American Dreams, 2022) was released; a tape comprised of two long tracks focusing on the immediacy of musical communication. Most recently he has been working on the score to several feature films as well as realising a collaborative album with artist Dali De Saint Paul.
Extensive Conversations is multidisciplinary studio devoted to creative wanderings. It seeks to expand dialogues in sound, art, design and literature, to form and highlight intentional pieces of work. The studio’s event series Intentions is centered around sound and spirituality, exploring the importance of ritual and community. Gatherings coincide with the lunar phases and harmonise with the seasons
