Tuesday 17 February 2009, 8pm
Experimental audio event organisers Sprawl showcase another diverse evening of sound experiences at Cafe Oto.
The following acts will be performing:
ALEXIS O'HARA
Alexis O'Hara is an interdisciplinary artist whose work was nurtured in
the lively cabaret & avant-noise scenes in Montreal. Sampling and
processing her voice in real-time, using lo-tech electronics and the
chimerical properties of electrical feeback, she creates live performances that combine electro-acoustic maximalism and psychedelic story telling. With improvisation she explores the possibilities of error and failure, circumstances in which the spectator is refocused with present-minded awareness. The eclecticism of her work attracts international programmers from various disciplines from spoken word and
sound art to live art and music. Alexis has been known to wear clothes that run on batteries.
INVISIBLE BEES
Invisible bees are a primitive-psych-folk-duo 'united in their aim to send time out of joint'. Their sound is 'darkly hypnotic-droney-buzzy with primitive saz-warm accordion swell, minimal guitar motifs-strummed violin-tolling bells-bowed metal and devotional vocals'. The Bees' Damian Burgess and Norwegian Elin Eriksen are both London based, but orginally from Manchester and Oslo respectively, and list Black Sabbath, Harry Partch, Sonic Youth, Philip K Dick, The Melvins, Neil Young, Derek Bailey, Tarkovsky, Henry Flynt and Beefheart amongst their inspirations.
NINE OWLS IN A BAGUETTE
This surreal group's founder is artist Patrick Furnees, primarily a sound designer, who has run workshops with the Sonic Arts Network (including their Sonic Postcard project) and Cineclub. As well as also being a radio producer (for Horse Hospital Radio on Resonance FM), Furness is involved with other collaborative projects such as Naked With Horses, and Daydream Nation. Wearing bizarre outfits and making a strange noise, the Nine Owls are a sight and sound to behold.