Friday 22 March 2024, 7.30pm
eavesdropping returns to Cafe OTO for another four-day festival, curated by Juliet Fraser, which includes four evening double-bill events and a weekend-long forum of talks, roundtables and provocations. We hope to stimulate your ears and your imagination by presenting new work by eight artists working at the experimental fringes of a variety of genres. The programming within each set is artist-led: repertoire is only announced on the night. During this year’s forum we will explore the topic ‘Experiments in Failure’. The vibe is low-key and friendly, whilst definitely being thought-provoking.
PLEASE NOTE: doors open 7.30pm; music starts 8pm (and ends by 10pm).
eavesdropping
eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music. Excited by experimentalism, we create opportunities for artists and audiences to practise engaged listening and compassionate debate. Our activity includes a festival, a forum, a podcast, and training and development workshops. Our mission is to build community through an ethics of curiosity and care, in the belief that ripples do make waves.
https://www.eavesdropping.london
SANDRA KAZLAUSKAITĖ is a Lithuanian-born sound artist, researcher and DJ working across the disciplines of sound and music performance, installation, as well as theory-led projects in auditory culture. Her work explores the relationship between sound, gender and space, questioning the concepts of silence/silencing, gendered soundscapes as well as the politics of sonic space. Sandra’s works have been exhibited and performed in the UK, Iceland, Lithuania, Norway, Germany and the United States. Her research work has been published by MIT Press, Bloomsbury Press and VDA Press.
http://sandra.unmute.co.uk/projects/gendered_soundscapes.html
ELLIE WILSON is a violinist and composer. Her work melds contemporary classical, folk and electronica and her output ranges from live performances to immersive sound installations and music for theatre. Her music has been described as ‘beautiful … absolutely wonderful’ (Cerys Matthews, BBC 6Music), ‘haunting…impressive’ (Fringe Review) and ‘rich, ancient and rootsy’ (Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3). Her solo album ‘Memory Islands’, for violin, hardanger fiddle and electronics, was recently released on the Bigo and Twigetti label and explores the strange landscape of memory and the spirit of place. Other highlights include writing the music for Shakespeare’s Globe productions of Henry VI and Richard III, and a sound installation ‘Unearthing Stories of the Forest’, created as part of an Epping Forest/Waltham Forest’s London Borough of Culture project, which explored the human impact on Greater London’s ancient woodland through the centuries. Ellie is a former member of 5-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominees Stick In The Wheel.
