Hallucinator

Hallucinator is a dub techno group from London, United Kingdom, active since 1996. The group consists of Edward George, Anna Piva and Trevor Mathison. Its work explores dub and electronica processes and forms, and it crosses between art and popular music through recordings, remixes, television and theatre soundtracks, and performance art.

Work and collaborations

Hallucinator contributes original music to several film and television projects, including the science fiction film Memory Room 451, the BBC documentary Behind Closed Doors, and the Russian experimental documentary Universal Substitute. The group also works closely with the multimedia artists Flow Motion, and creates reworkings of their installation Ghost Dance. These include Ghost Dance and Ghost Version, which appear on the Centre Pompidou’s Sonic Process CD.

The group also creates soundscapes for other artists’ works, including Coco Fusco’s theatre piece The Incredible Disappearing Woman and Keiko Courdy’s performance piece Aya Mod 2. In 2000, Japanese choreographer Saburo Tashigawara invites Hallucinator to contribute Messenger to his CD project Absolute Zero. The group also produces tracks for Gangchen Rimpoche’s United Voices for Peace project, including 21 Aspects of Female Divinity and Chang Tzel.

Recordings and labels

Hallucinator’s longest-running label association is with Chain Reaction, which releases the group’s debut album Landlocked as well as a series of singles and extended releases, including People, Black Angel, Red Angel, Frontier, Morpheus and Rainmaker. The group’s debut recording, People, is dedicated to Stephen Lawrence. Other releases include Mas Que Nada for Irma Records, and See Mi Yah [Hallucinator Remix] for Burial Mix, created with Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald of Rhythm & Sound and featuring Willi Williams.

In 2007, Hallucinator makes Invisible 0.1, a reworking of material from Piva and George’s Invisible for the web project Signal – new sound works for empty space. The group also releases Invisible 0.0 [Finetuned Premix] on Finetuned in the same period. Hallucinator is also working on an album version of the Invisible material for Flow Motion.

Live work

Hallucinator performs live and DJs at venues and events including the Science Museum Dana Centre in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, the ICA in London, Batofar in Paris, the Yuri Gagarin Theatre/Cosmonaut’s Club in Star City, Podewill in Berlin, The Link in Bologna, Sadler’s Wells/Lilian Baylis Theatre in London, and Steirisher Herbst in Graz. The group also appears in projects such as Astro Black Morphologies, Space Artists - The Cultural Frontiers of Space Travel, Acoustic Space, and Zero Gravity.