Semay Wu & Juana Adcock
“Bicycle Lights in the fog“
tx: 19th April, from 19:00
Live performance:
Saturday, 19th April – Doors 6pm. First performance 7pm sharp.
Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, G4 9SH
Reading some Ivor Cutler, “Texts, leaving soft holes for the sun to glitter through like bicycle lights in the fog.” And “He tries to fill the space, so he sings a song about porridge trapped by a dam.” Random, sometimes absurd, thoughts light up and take shape, allowing us to jump into whole new worlds in a single speck of time.
Semay Wu is a composer, cellist, improviser, and media/sound artist. Influenced by free improvisational frameworks, Semay composes primarily in electroacoustic sounds: most recently with graphic scores, field recordings and live electronics. She has also developed video pieces, performance/interactive-installations, as well as an online audio cookbook for Manchester’s communities: Sounds Like Scran, in 2021.
Semay’s solo performances use sampling and improvisation, of cello, voice and everyday objects, and has released four albums: Raspberry Hotel (Akashic Records, 2022), Sharmanka & Unsteady Stones (Scatter Archive, 2023 & 2024), and The Spinal Cactus #001 (self-released), made for her first UK tour (as solo) in 2024.
Juana Adcock, born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, is a poet writing in both English and Spanish. She is the author of Manca (Tierra Adentro, 2014), Vestigial (Stewed Rhubarb, 2022), and Split (Blue Diode, 2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and I Sugar the Bones (Out-Spoken Press, 2024). She is co-editor of the anthology Temporary Archives: Poetry by women of Latin America (Arc, 2022) and translator of Laura Wittner’s Translation of the Route (Bloodaxe/PTC, 2024) and Hubert Matiuwaa’s The Dogs Dreamt. She performs regularly at literary festivals in Europe, Asia and Latin America.