Polyop

Polyop are an audiovisual group from London, formed by electronic music artist Jack Driscoll and visual artist Alex Kempton in 2016, and later joined by musicians Harry Orso and Finlay Macaulay. For the past two years they’ve been performing their live show, ​The Polyhedral Plane around the UK and Europe. The show follows a giant shape-shifting demigod through the universe after he wakes up on a planet from a deep sleep. He comes across a tribe of nomadic aliens harvesting a potent psychoactive crystal from a nearby asteroid field. Polyop take influence from early 3D graphics, electro, breakbeat, techno and rave. The music and visuals in the show are performed on hardware and their custom visual software Hedron. The group experiments with new technologies, through generative music videos that run in the browser or strange VR worlds. This approach extends to Hedron, the audiovisual tool designed by Polyop for their live show, which is open source and used by artists around the world. 2019 saw Polyop break into Europe with performances in Berlin and Amsterdam, as well as taking their show to acclaimed London clubs The Cause, Five Miles and The Pickle Factory. They have released on Nudibranch Records, Tru Thoughts and received support and radio play from BBC Introducing, Worldwide FM, Roy Davis Jr and Posthuman