VOLCANO THE BEAR LIVE SOUNDTRACK TO FISCHLI AND WEISS’S THE WAY THINGS GO - Thu 13th May
+ THE OWL PROJECT, PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS
eat-your-own-ears
CONCRETE AND GLASS and EAT YOUR OWN EARS presents...
Arch experimentalists VOLCANO THE BEAR will provide a live soundtrack to Fischli and Weiss’s acclaimed chain reaction film, The Way Things Go. This will be a one-off gig, and will be performed by Aaron Moore and Daniel Padden.
Volcano The Bear’s own music is an often absurd meeting of unlikely instruments, objects and sounds. Narratives and momentum are created and sabotaged, and accidents happen.
Though the band are high-improvisers and the film a carefully choreographed sequence, the pairing is an apt one; Volcano The Bear’s live performance is constructed from an assemblage of weird gadgets and gizmos; mirroring the chain reaction of objects and utensils used in the Swiss artists’ legendary film.
Drawing on a huge range of musical influences, including indigenous folk musics, free jazz and musique concrete, Volcano The Bear produce music that is wholly their own, moving freely between improvisation and composition, and between instruments, voices and objects. Their music is often ritualistic, theatrical, beautiful and absurd, and in live performance allows anything to happened at any given time. They have released over a dozen albums on a variety of labels including United Dairies, Textiles & Beta Lactam Ring as well as their own imprints, Volucan & Volfurten.
OWL PROJECT straddle the worlds of sound and visual art, with their peculiar sculptural musical instruments, including the mLog, their woodcraft interpretation of an iPod, which contrasts the disposability of modern technology with the labour intensive processes inherent in traditional handcraft objects. This group of process-orientated artists have recently won a coveted grant to create one of the major projects for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
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