Metasplice

Saturday, February 16th, ISSUE is proud to present Colombian musician and composer Lucrecia Dalt, her first U.S. performance since 2014. Celebrating the recent release of her acclaimed 2018 album Anticlines on Brooklyn-based music institution RVNG Intl, the evening features Dalt’s interstitial exploration of speech and song, vocal processing and spoken word, songcraft and mercurial ambient music -- all coinciding into “a volume of bodily and geological substrates within poetic theory and sound.” Philadelphia-based duo Metasplice also present new work, showcasing a shifting sonic space existing between electronic free improvisation and live post-production techniques.

Metasplice formed in the summer of 2010 following an impromptu jam session. This later inspired the future duo to release a split record of solo material on _bruxist in early 2011. After touring for the record, the group began collaborating and recording full time. In spring of 2012, the duo released a cassette, ‘MS I/II’ (Injections Limited) that caught the ears of Morphine Records. After releasing a couple of EPs on Morphine, the group released their critically acclaimed debut album, Infratracts (Morphine, 2013), earning them tours throughout Europe and a mind-bending stint in Japan. In the years that followed, they shifted their focus to recording their 2nd full length, metasplice (_bruxist, 2015): a studio representation of their live performance material up to that point (also demonstrated on several self–released live show cassettes). Summer 2018 has become a proper re-entry point for Metasplice. Their 3rd album, Mirvariates, has attracted attention throughout the electronic music world.