KOGG

KOGG is an experimental electronic music collaboration between Selena Kay and Cerys Hogg.

Using real and home-made instruments, sound objects, and vocals, KOGG combines composed elements with improvisation and generative approaches.

KOGG collects and manipulates audio from a variety of sources as diverse as plastic whistles from Christmas crackers, discarded MOD firing range targets, and Bartok’s field recordings of Central European folk song.

KOGG’s music is a fusion of Selena and Cerys's diverse backgrounds in classical contemproary composition and jazz improvisation. The result is music that is unique in style, embodying a kaleidoscopic sound world of elastic rhythms and off-centre melodies, fabricated with an ear for both the familiar and the unknown.

Since forming in 2018, KOGG have brought their inventive genre-defying sounds to prestigious and grassroots venues and events including IKLECTIK and London’s Moth Club. They also appeared at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and were commissioned by Britten Pears Arts to create and perform a new work at the Aldeburgh Festival 2022. KOGG developed Belastica, a work for electronics and string quartet which they performed with the Ligeti Quartet.

The duo have played in places as far flung as Varna, Bulgaria, where they performed at Radar Festival Beyond Music. In 2024 they headlined Nonclassical’s 20th Anniversary Club Night, further cementing their reputation for theatrical, high-energy audiovisual performance.

Their music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 6. Their album Mechanista is due for release on nonclassical label in May 2026.

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