Music of the New World
As part of ADE Arts & Culture, Amsterdam collective Hothead presents new film works by London-based vocalist and composer Lauren Duffus and audio visual artist Shauwdii, asking how film can carry memory, history and emotion when sound takes the lead.
Hothead’s ADE Arts & Culture program explores how sound can shape, influence and challenge other art forms. The evening centres on new work Lauren Duffus and Shauwdii, where music acts as score and context to their films.
Lauren Duffus (live)
Lauren Duffus is a London-based producer, vocalist and composer. Her cinematic, sample-based work on SoundCloud led to releases on Body Motion, AD93 and AMF Records. The 2022 single 'Habits' was featured in a British Vogue / Royal Opera House dance performance, and she has since performed at Fabric, Village Underground and MUTEK Argentina. Her latest EP Can’s Gone Warm, led by single N.U.M.T.E., explores themes of longing and nostalgia through a fractured club aesthetic.
At Eye she presents new film work she has created, directly connected to her musical practice. The film takes the central role, with her live performance functioning as a score that guides and reinforces it.
Shauwdii
Shauwdii is an audio visual artist & DJ from Hackney, London. She works with Destruction, attempting to feel what sounds are left once we disappear. She seeks to unearth the emptiness beneath emotion, confronting a confidence within the grotesque through heavy dub electronic soundscapes, industrial ambience and cyclical trap remixes in her live performances. Her work aims to make sense out of disaster with noise and memory. These ideas are also embedded in her film works, directing music videos for some of London’s most notable musical innovators including Taz & Meeks, Mark William Lewis, Zerosome and Jawnino.
At Eye she presents a new short film, a continuation of her earlier project thatonephonecall
Presented by Hothead
Hothead is an Amsterdam based bookshop moving through sound, print and cultural programming. They publish media and open space, both physical and conceptual, for creative voices from all directions. In 2025 they opened a 9m2 shop in an old ATM booth, fully dedicated to independent printed matter and sound in the Van Woustraat. They host talks, music, conversation, and distribute local and international independent publications.
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With Eye on Sound, Eye focuses on the special relationship between image and sound. Expect live music to silent films, live bands from today to classics of yesteryear, brand new scores to films from the versatile Eye collection and special attention to the often neglected art of sound design.
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