Reception is proud to present the Irish debut of UK composer and artist Simon Whetham alongside Galilea Roto (MX/IRE)!
(supported by Interface Inagh)
7.30pm - 09/05/2026 - tickets via RA or link in bio.
Since 2005 Simon Whetham has developed a practice of working with sonic activity as a material
for creation. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques
in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He explores ways of creating
physical traces of sound, and of channelling and transforming energy, most recently salvaging
and repurposing obsolete consumer technology.
Collaborations with sound artists/musicians include long term projects with Tarab (Eamon Sprod) and Gregory Büttner, and past collaborators include Scanner, Derek Piotr, Iris Garrelfs, John Grzinich, Ryu Hankil, Xenia Pestova, Alan Courtis, Kate Carr, Rhodri Davies, Christine Schörkhuber and Slavek Kwi.
Galilea Roto is an audiovisual artist from Nuevo León, Mexico, whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, tattoo, poetry, video, and experimental music. Her work navigates the intersection of the personal and the collective, engaging with themes such as language, migration, “home,” pain, and sound as a vessel of memory. Through a combination of lived experience and research, she creates a dialogue between individual and communal narratives. Each piece fosters reflection, attentive listening, and emotional resonance while challenging the conventions of traditional media.
Este poema es un ejercicio performatico del lenguaje, su “mutación”, mi pérdida, mi dolor y la migración. Es un apunte dialéctico desde la poesía, el ruido, las grabaciones y el transhumanismo.
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Pronto podrás escuchar el ruido completo en SoundCloud 👾
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This poem is a performative exercise of language, its “mutation,” my loss, my pain, and migration. It is a dialectical note from poetry, noise, recordings, and transhumanism.
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Soon you’ll be able to listen to the full noise on SoundCloud 👾
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