On Thursday 7 May 2015, come to the Amersham Arms for the latest extraordinary gig from EAVI, Goldsmiths’ research group on embodied audiovisual interaction.
This month’s event – an election night special – features performances by some of the UK’s top composers, performers and sound artists, including Laetitia Sonami, Lucy Railton, Álvaro Sarasúa, Patricia Alessandrini and Richard Craig.
Where: Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY
When: 8pm – late, Thursday 7 May 2015
Tickets: £5. Order online or pay on the door
Laetitia Sonami is best known for working with new instruments, in particular the Lady’s Glove, a pioneering sensor instrument for bringing the human body into the performance of electronic music. Her work combines text, music and found sound in compositions which have been described as “performance novels”.
Lucy Railton’s solo cello sets don’t just involve playing the cello, they play the room, and vibrate every molecule in it, exploring every hidden resonance and micro-texture. As an organiser of the Kammer Klang nights and the London Contemporary Music Festival, Lucy Railton has been making amazing musical things happen in London for years.
Patricia Alessandrini is a composer who works with live electronics and interactive multimedia, engaging with concert music repertoire and exploring issues of representation, perception and memory. Richard Craig is a flautist and new music performer who has performed with groups such as ELISION, Musikfabrik and Klangforum Wien at international festivals including the Venice Biennale, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Festival D’Automne in Paris and the Lincoln Center Festival in New York.
The performances of Quitters are a thing of true wonder. Imagine a heartbroken Ivor Cutler hijacking an RnB karaoke. Tears of joy and sadness are cried, and nothing is quite the same afterwards.
Álvaro Sarasúa is visiting EAVI from the Music Technology Group (UPF) in Barcelona where he is a member of the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra, exploring novel ideas in network music. He works in a variety of bands including Freakenders, UMO, Nomo and Audiolepsia. For EAVI XII he will be performing a solo version of CliX Redux, a piece that the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra performed in Sónar 2013.