About this event

Conjuring #4 features a live improvisation by Damsel Elysium, Abi Asisa, afromerm and Lara Aisha.

Conjuring is a monthly live music event series curated by Studio Njoku, and presented by Club Cheek.

Conjuring brings together leading experimental musicians for collaborative, improvised performances. The project foregrounds musical dialogue, community building and spiritual expression.

Each edition features a unique lineup of guest musicians performing a one-time live improvisation around a central motif developed by Tony Njoku.

Abi Asisa is a London-based producer and electroacoustic cellist whose work blends classical, jazz, and experimental influences. Originally from Brighton, she moved to London at 19, where she shifted from traditional cello performance toward more improvisational, genre-fluid music. By layering and manipulating her cello, she creates textured, emotionally rich soundscapes that sit between composition and improvisation.

A member of the multidisciplinary collective Life is Beautiful, Asisa frequently collaborates across music, dance, and visual art. She has performed at venues including Café OTO, the Southbank Centre, and Tate Modern, and was a resident artist at the Montreux Jazz Artists Foundation in 2022.

Damsel Elysium (they/them) is the solo project of UK based multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Djenaba Davis-Eyo. An alchemist of body, space, object and the metaphysical, Damsel is a holistic world builder using sound, video, performance and other artistic mediums whose deeply intuitive practice crosses the boundary between experimental sound art, avant-pop, performance art, contemporary classical, analog and electronics, blurring the lines of genre, discipline and expectation. Their work explores anticolonial and neurodivergent practice, paradoxes of the manmade and natural world. Working almost entirely with improvisation somatic techniques, subtle energy, ancestral knowledge and the subconscious, they are an architect of hypnagogic activation to draw attention to quantum details and initiate alternative realities. Their multi-medium approach explores site-specific non-performance spaces of history and sacredness. Inspired by contemporary and Fluxus movements, performance becomes ritual and the stage an altar.

afromerm is the solo project of 2023 Oram award-winning composer and sound artist, Cecilia Morgan. Her work draws from contemporary, jazz, and experimental disciplines, blending electronic elements with live instrumentation, spoken and sung vocalisations, and her self-built motion-reactive instrument, Juniper, to create soundscapes that immerse us into the elemental mythology of her project. Her free-form live set expands this sound world with live-looping, deftly blended into beats and scapes.

Lara Aisha is a Nigerian-German classically trained flautist. She is studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama whilst developing her voice as an experimental and electroacoustic flautist. Her improvisational influences are in classical contemporary music, African and Asian cultural flute music, and jazz. Whilst she has extensive experience in classical solo performance, her current path is characterized by cross-genre collaboration, involving a new duo project combining flute with modular synthesizer.