Performance Thursday 23 March 2006
9pm Showroom Cinema Sheffield
For Lovebytes he Sprawl Club - London-based sonic innovators since 1996 - presented an evening of eclectic post-digital music by 3 artists who excel in their fields:
Leafcutter John
Leafcutter John's 'The Forest and The Sea' features a dynamic hybrid of electronic and acoustic songs, telling a true story, the compositions are bound together by a meticulous narrative enriched by haunting vocals and traditional instrumentation.
www.leafcutter.33-rpm.net
SI-CUT.DB
Co-Sprawl curator Douglas Benford has been releasing his digital music as SI-CUT.DB, with several albums released under this guise, since 1991.
www.douglasbenford.co.uk
Iris Garrelfs
Iris Garrelfs, co-founder of Sprawl, is known for her emotive, improvised performances and multichannel installations. Her new album Specified Encounters (BipHop) has been moulded from dissected, transmuted voice sounds, settling somewhere between Arvo Part and Christian Fennesz.
www.irisgarrelfs.com
www.sprawl.org.uk
When I saw him play 2002 he was kind of fishing in the audience with a microphone sort of thing, so you could grab it or bat it, and all these insane sounds came out, not just sampling the audience. definately not lame!
EtcEtcAndEtc 4 years ago 4
Well, you'd be wrong...
jnoir87 4 years ago 4