Rebecca Saunders, Alex Paxton, Lisa Illean

Two new works by Alex Paxton enable us to sample the luxurious nature of his art: sensual, joyous, minimal, brimful with notes, rhythmic, full of energy, and drawing upon song-writing, jazz and groove. His magical, affirmed expressivity enables him to navigate a vibrant, playful path through composition as well as improvisation, mixing solo instrument sections with sampling and electronics. Lisa Illean, in close proximity to the sounds of the natural world, and the tides, goes in search of a transparency of sound the minimal changes of which gradually filter into our bodies, allowing analogies to emerge between the audible and the visible, the tactile and the sculptural. Tiding III is part of a cycle inspired by the monumental woodcut Deep Water, the work of the German visual artist Christiane Baumgartner. The flesh, the ephemeral, the corpse and the tragedy of the intimate run through Rebecca Saunders' work entitled Us Dead Talk Love, based on a collection by video artist and poet Ed Atkins. In the same way as sound is a form of matter, in terms of the physical intensity of gesture or colour, the word exists in the mouth. It is breathed, swallowed, ingested, lapped up by the tongue, and swathed in saliva, ready to disappear into enzymes.