Wednesday 12 June 2019, 7.30pm
Heralded as “one of the most exciting young composers in North America” by the Guardian and a “unique navigator of the electronic world” by NPR, Kara-Lis Coverdale is a fiercely independent voice in new music that champions omnivorous approach to sound.
Kara-Lis Coverdale works in both acoustic and electronic media to create works that transcend reality. Driven by a patient devotion to sonic afterlife, memory, and material curiosity, Coverdale’s world-building work occupies new planes built upon a borderless understanding of electronic music rooted in the interlocking pathways of musical systems and languages. Her most recent recorded release, Grafts (Boomkat, 2017), whilst rooted in a modal sensibility, explores the impermanence of identity signature to exhibit a highly idiosyncratic approach to ratio-based microtonality and overtone, grief, love, and the passing of time.
Coverdale’s recordings are architecturally considered and often understated, but her dynamic live shows can be unpredictable, chaotic, eerie, dynamic, confrontational—symptoms that the artist is emotionally present— for which she has earned a steady reputation as a festival favourite as a highly dynamic and explorative artist; unpredictable and resistant to categorization and stasis.
Kate Carr is a London-based sound artist and researcher working across composition, performance and installation. Her practice explores field recording as both a creative method and a way of understanding relationships between people, environments and technologies. Through recording, listening, performance and the construction of instruments from discarded materials, she examines the ambiguities of recorded sound and the shifting boundaries between documentation, fiction and encounter.
Central to her work is an ongoing practice deploying recording protocols: score-like systems, actions and constraints that structure how recordings are gathered. Her work draws on the sound of public spaces, infrastructural vibrations and hybrid environments.
Carr performs internationally and runs the sound art label Flaming Pines. She is a member of the duos Rubbish Music (with Iain Chambers) and Quartz Sand (with Cath Roberts).
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