Halina Rice at Liverpool Arts Club
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Halina Rice
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Operating in the same orbit as Jon Hopkins, Max Cooper and Rival Consoles, Halina Rice pairs emotive electronic music with cutting-edge visuals to create live events she describes as “part rave, part art-happening”.
The London-based artist’s music spans shimmering atmospheres and propulsive rhythms, seesawing from abstraction to dance-floor weight. What ties it all together is a clear sonic identity; her digital worlds are full of human warmth, the textures bristling with organic life. And as any fledgling producer can tell you, that’s not an easy feat.
Rice has three records under her belt so far, moving from the vocal-laced, moody atmospherics of Redux (2017), through the sculpted, widescreen Elision (2022), to Evolve (2024) – a full dive into spatial audio, where each musical element is treated like a moving object you feel in front, beside, behind and above you, rather than squeezed into two speakers.
It’s the arc of an artist forever expanding her canvas, moving from DIY experiments to total environment, from headphones to whole worlds. At Liverpool Arts Club, she debuts a new live AV show ahead of a forthcoming album this autumn – the next step in a career defined by constant evolution.
