Lost Communications: An-Ting & Ian Gallagher, Lucian Fletcher, benjin

Lost Communications: An-Ting & Ian Gallagher

"Birdsongs augmented by electronics that fly rapidly between dark and light…" Electronic Sound Magazine

“Fascinating, almost addictive – an extraordinary techno music and video experience” Rotterdam Advertiser

Lost Communications is an audiovisual performance that explores the light and darkness in nature. An-Ting uses recordings of birdsong and underwater sounds and blends them with experimental electronic music, drone soundscapes, and intense beats. Ian Gallagher uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies to document the duo's ideas and experiences, with live visuals that react in real-time to An-Ting's music.

The duo will preview their new set, “Underwater”, while performing some of their most popular audio-visual works from their “Birds” set in this gig. Their Lost Communications: Birds set has been touring the UK and internationally, including N&N Festival, Secret Garden Party, and FILE Festival in Brazil.

Lucian Fletcher

Lucian Fletcher is a Glasgow-based composer and producer. His music features electronic sound design with ambient, IDM, glitch and post-industrial influences. He also creates audiovisual work, live performance and compositions for contemporary theatre and dance.

https://www.lucianfletcher.com/

benjin & Clara Helbig

benjin is a multi-instrumentalist, artist, curator, academic and storyteller who has toured and recorded with a number of experimental ensembles over the last 20 years. His solo work combines guitar, cello, harp, clarinet, vocals, nyckelharpa, field recordings and found sounds. Drawing upon benjin’s experiences of a lifetime working on the waters of the UK, these compositions combine traditional folk song forms with dense free form jazz improvisations, minimalist classical music and sound collages. His music has been featured on BBC Radio 6 and Radio 3 and at the TATE and Serpentine Galleries.

benjin was also appointed principal musician at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2022/23 and his 2022 release 'Music for Cello and Nyckelharpa' was championed by Bandcamp 'New and Notable' and The Nest Collective. In Autumn 2025, benjin is releasing two new solo albums, 'Vol X: The Last Days of Sail' - a selection of songs, expansive instrumentals and guitar miniatures - and 'Vol XI: Partita II Palestine' - a radical re-interpretation of Bach's most famous solo violin sonata played on the Nyckelharpa (Keyed Fiddle).

https://benjinmusic.bandcamp.com/

Clara Helbig (b.1996, Germany) is an artist, filmmaker and curator whose practice navigates the entangled relationships between humans, animals and landscapes within the fragile logics of consumer capitalism. Working fluidly between fiction and non-fiction to explore how the real can be reimagined, fragmented, and reassembled, her work investigates the possibilities of drawing attention to overlooked ecologies and interdependencies. Her work has been presented internationally across exhibitions and film festivals, including screenings of her short film disjointed (2020), which was awarded the Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis for Best Documentary Short.

clarahelbig.github.io