Have Robot Dog, Will Travel
Stephanie Pan
Music performance | 2018
Have Robot Dog, Will Travel is a genre-bending mash up of sound, combining explosive vocals and lush melodies with dirty, gritty beats, noise, delicate drones and fragile landscapes. This live performance brings Stephanie’s instrumentarium of lo-fi electronics, baby synthesizers, toys and toy instruments, autoharp, vintage keyboards, and vocal stylings that span pop music to experimental voice to belcanto singing, together with renowned Ensemble Klang’s rich and powerful sound of brass, electric guitar, percussion and keys.
Manifold musical layers move independently of each other to create a constantly moving landscape, like little creatures on their own separate paths. In between experimental art pop / virtuosic extended voice / noise / participatory performance, the project appropriates digital aesthetics and sensibilities within the irregular and imperfect world of the human voice and analog instruments.
“I love chaos, I love mess, human imperfection.“
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“AI becomes one with Pan’s soaring bel canto style, coaxing an eerie mysticism out of cold coding.”
The Wire (England) – Claire Sawers
“The most breathtaking work of 2018!”
Skug (Austria) – Alfred Pranzl
skug’s #1 Experimental Album of 2018
“… a musical cyborg… Virtual reality for the ears. You’ll fall in love with it instantly.”
Gonzo(circus) (the Netherlands) – Rene van Peer
“New paths to songwriting: electronic sounds, daring, experimental, contemporary classical, drone and (very vaguely) pop, voice and avant garde theater…”
Blow Up (Italy) – Stefano I. Bianchi
“…a tremendous scenic impact modulated between extreme vocals, audio experimentation and performance art…”
Neural (Italy)
Description
Music performance: a song cycle for the technological age
Duration
45-60 minutes
Credits
Composition: Stephanie Pan
Texts: by Stephanie Pan except Beast, by Stephanie Pan and Tivon Rice using Neural Storyteller
Performers:
Stephanie Pan: Voice, synths, objects:
Vitaly Medvedev: Percussion, samplers, backing vocals
Ensemble Klang:
Saskia Lankhoorn – keys, synths, backing vox;
Pete Harden – electric guitar, synths;
Anton van Houten – trombone;
Erik-Jan de With† & Michiel van Dijk – saxophones;
Joey Marijs – percussion
Photos: Rob Hogeslag and Shui Fan
Album artwork: Chaja Hertog
Supported by Stichting ARTEk, Creative Industries Fund Netherlands, Gemeente Den Haag
Listen
Album Available at ARTEkSOUNDS, Bandcamp, iTunes and Spotify