JUSTICE YELDHAM

Justice Yeldham is Lucas Abela’s amplified-glass practice as it existed before Granpa’s modular transformation. Beginning in 2003, the project used contact microphones, effects & the performer’s mouth to turn discarded panes of glass into an ecstatic free-noise instrument.

The physical spectacle often dominated accounts of the work, but bloodletting was never its primary intention. At its core was a singular playing technique: lips transmitting minute vibrations into glass, pressure bending pitch & the resonant pane responding like an unruly electronic mouthpiece.

Justice Yeldham / amplified-glass archive

TESTIMONIALS

“Lucas is just captivating. It’s incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down & sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs.”Zach Hill — Death Grips

“The most exciting performer I have seen in the last three years — in fact, since I first saw Iggy Pop.”Bruce Russell — WIRE

“One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube.”David Rees — The New York Times

“Brilliantly immediate performance, galvanising and alien and funny, and free of safe gestures and easy comparisons.”Frances Morgan — The Quietus

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