Sprawl feat ALEXIS O'HARA, INVISIBLE BEES, NINE OWLS IN A BAGUETTE

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Experimental audio event organisers Sprawl showcase another diverse evening of sound experiences

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.
http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/41660.htm

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. http://www.myspace.com/invisiblebees

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. http://www.patrickfurness.com