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KAFFE MATTHEWS, HANNAH CLEMEN AND PETRO VOURIS
FEBRUARY 26 2002
Kaffe Matthews : Laptop Improvisor
One of the most active artists in UK new electronic music, Kaffe's unusual approach exploiting digital gadgets and live performance has resulted in some unique recordings. She has been making and performing new music worldwide for the past ten years. From a background in violin, shopkeeping, Zoology, drumming, acid house engineering and a masters in Music Technology, she is now most known for her live sampling performances of events and places in real time: processing in installation, on stage, in galleries, clubs, concert halls, tents, churches, the outback, warehouses, or ambient tea rooms. www.anneteworks.com
At Zho Kaffe will perform an improvised solo set, playing through 4 speakers, with sonic snatches sampled from microphones placed around the venue. For this purely electronic performance, Kaffe will process the sampled sounds through her laptop computer, mixing them into live improvised soundscapes which have been described as simultaneously intensely chilling and shockingly beautiful. Her performance style is very physical and dynamic, playing inside a circle of speakers with the audience. The involvement is full on and some kind of homogenous journey apparent. The music is vast, sculpted into textural landscapes, vibrating granular technohymns, and noisy beats. Following her solo set tonight, Kaffe will perform some live improvisations with local sound artists Hanna Clemen and Petro Vouris.
Hannah Clemen and Petro Vouris
Hannah Clemen and Petro Vouris have been making sounds together since 1999, when they performed together at the Totally Huge New Music Festival. Both sound artists, they have very different backgrounds.
At Zho Hannah and Petro will perform with live samples, analogue and digital electronics, as well as live sounds. They have been working for the last 10 months on a series of works for a forthcoming CD exploring the joining of the analogue, the digital and the concrete in a swirling sea of psychoacoustic textures. As well as some improvised soundscapes, they will perform adaptations of tracks from this collection of works including the beautiful and meditative "Who Killed Amy Grant" and the churning, industrial and disturbing sounds of "Ad Nauseam".
