Floating Points

The Barbican screens a new film, Reflections – Mojave Desert, from Floating Points and his band, featuring entirely new and unheard compositions as the soundtrack. Floating Points – aka British DJ, producer and neuroscientist Sam Shepherd – has toured with The xx and collaborated with Caribou and Four Tet, and is known for his explorative, genre-bending work. The film, a collaboration with director Anna Diaz Ortuño, is a thrilling sonic exploration of the desert environment, and is the first in a series of environmental recordings to be undertaken by Floating Points at different locations across the globe.

The film was recorded in August 2016, when the band travelled to the Mojave to rehearse ahead of their US tour. On encountering the distinctive sonic tapestries created by the valleys and rock formations, the band set up a recording operation, placing microphones throughout the landscape and filming their experience of capturing the desert’s auditory textures.

The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Sam Shepherd and film director Anna Diaz Ortuño, hosted by Boiler Room’s Head of Music Raj Chaudhuri.