SPRAWL PRESENTS... THOMAS GARDNER, BELA EMERSON + MANUELA BARCZEWSKI

Event information

Experimental audio event organisers Sprawl showcase
an autumnal evening of string sound experiments at Cafe Oto.

The following acts will be performing:

THOMAS GARDNER

Cello and live electronics composer, Thomas specialises in group interactions, interfaces for digital performance, and evolutionary musicology. His work includes the 'Ouija Board' - a new form musical instrument, based on the analysis of the shadows of a group of people. He also explores the integration of cellistic technique with speech and lip controls over some of the electroacoustic processes and cello sounds.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=suJ9919MoKU
http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/41660.htm
http://lccmpbalanced.mediacitizens.com/index.php?siid=4080

BELA EMERSON

Bela Emerson's performances using electric cello & analogue effects are spontaneous, intense, and exhilarating.
Sounds are looped, take on lives of their own, bounce off each other... the effect, as anyone who's heard her will testify, is mesmeric. She has performed solo at Supersonic, EXPO, & worldwide Ladyfests, been broadcast on Resonance FM & BBC Radio 3, plus collaborated live with the likes of Tim Exile & Sten Sandell plus film-makers SchMovies & Tereza Buskova. This performance marks the London launch of her new album on BiP_HoP.

http://www.cellobela.com
http://www.myspace.com/belaemerson

MANUELA BARCZEWSKI

With 85 bpm, an electric guitar, vocals and electronic elements, Manuela Barczewski's songs simply describe the luxury of melancholy. Her music works like a memory system; it's a sound archive in which Barczewski captures and processes her observations and experiences on everyday life. In 2006 she met Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka (Fat Cat) in his Studio One in Dusseldorf/Germany where they recorded seven songs. For her live gigs the artist uses a laptop instead of a backing band combined with her voice and electric guitar.

http://www.manuelabarczewski.com
http://www.myspace.com/manuelabarczewski