The performers are required to use only the material that was selected for them by the audience. No instruments, synthesizers, sample banks or libraries can be called upon for these challenges. The materials available for selection at each event has its own social and curatorial scope: vinyl records belonging to an attendee’s grandparents, thrift store finds, archival recordings etc.

Kitchen Counter Sessions are a series of private events I have been
facilitating for musicians and producers in Bangalore, India. The
goal of these events has been to produce performances of process
and to refocus attention away from the rendered musical product.

Musicians are given pre-recorded material (selected on the spot by
the audience) to play, sample and manipulate in ways that the material, their instinct, their tools and processes might suggest. This results in a showcase of imaginative listening, where the audience are keenly aware of the original source material, and can trace its metamorphoses at the hands of the “performer” throughout a performance, from its most raw form to something occasionally unrecognisable.