Helen Papaioannouis aSheffield-based composer and performer. She loves to create maximal impact from modest means, often via slowly evolving patterns and drones, eking out intensity from repetitive rhythms and a reduced sound palette.
Helen has collaborated with a range of performers and ensembles and also performs solo as Kar Pouzi on baritone sax and electronics. Garlic Hug, her duo with Alessandro Altavilla, combines a playground of instruments and approaches to performance, from improvisations with found recordings, to wonky instrumental duos, to ritualistic coding psalms. Helen improvises and performs with various collaborators, and has played as one third of the bands Beauty Pageant and HOKKETT.
