Omniversal Hum presents an album launch for "Misting" by MP Hopkins, out now on Nice Music. Support from Silzedrek.

MP Hopkins is a sound artist and musician working on Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. He uses voice, feedback, recording/playback devices, and text scores within different acoustic environments, which are deconstructed and presented to the listener in delicate and degraded ways.

He has released recordings with Penultimate Press, Canti Magnetici, Tahalamos, Regional Bears, and Nice Music. He has performed locally at events organised by the NOW now, Liquid Architecture, Avantwhatever, Performance Space, Humming Grotto, and Omniversal Hum. International appearances include Café Oto, London; LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore; Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels; TUSK Festival, Newcastle Upon Tyne; and Colour Out of Space Festival, Brighton.

Tarquin Manek is an artist based in Melbourne whose current solo projects include Tarquin Manek, Silzedrek, Static Cleaner Lost Reward, LST and M Quake. ‘Disturbed and enchanted environmnents’, ‘deep spatial dynamics’, and ‘higher dub logic’ are all phrases used to describe Manek’s work. It’s revealed in a way that spurs on the attentive listener through live settings and in
his production - the details so detailed and calling to be heard multiple times for an exercise in a choose your own
story-song. Manek’s ability to weave between the characters of his aliases through 21st century avant folk jazz
improvisation, dream(pop) (post) punk, dubbed in and out clarinet, syncopated syco rhythm and beyond, displays
a certain lunacy and obsession that only someone of his calibre could possess.

Lauded by Resident Advisor as Blackest Ever Black’s MPV, Manek has several releases on the now defunct
label, as well as a slew of other releases and tracks on A Colourful Storm, Chapter Music, Purely Physical
and Kashual Plastik; with upcoming releases on Low Company, 5 Gate Temple, and A Colourful Storm.