Join us for an evening of experimental music-making at Arnolfini. Curated and introduced by Juliet Fraser, Artistic Director of the eavesdropping festival in London, this informal double-bill event presents pianist Eliza McCarthy and sound artist Marlo De Lara, each of whom will share a solo set of new work. 

ELIZA MCCARTHY is a London-based pianist dedicated to performing new and experimental music. She plays in concert halls, art galleries, car parks and living rooms across the UK, Europe and US as a soloist and band member. She has worked with, commissioned and premiered music by John Adams, Thomas Adès, George Crumb, Tansy Davies, Kit Downes, Andrew Hamilton, Nico Muhly and Laurie Spiegel, among others. Eliza regularly collaborates with Mica Levi (Under the Skin, Jackie) and their album ‘Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall’ was released in 2018. Recent highlights include Morton Feldman’s 90-minute solo piano work Triadic Memories at the Southbank Centre, premiere performances in Dublin and New York of Limina, a piano concerto written for her by Donnacha Dennehy, and the world premiere of Johnny Greenwood’s 268 Years of Reverb. Eliza has released music on NMC, Milan Records, Slip, Diatribe Records, Entr’acte, Foom, WW Records and Clay Pipe Music.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, artist MARLO DE LARA received a PhD in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds and an MA in Psychosocial Studies at the Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex. Their practice works within the realms of sound performance, visual distraction, and film. Sound works are textural compositions which develop from microscopic tone landscapes into dense and expansive states of noise. The works aim to blur the definitions of the(un)intentional and the myth of permanence. As the child of Filipino migrants of the ‘brain drain’ coming of age, De Lara’s unabashed feminist sociopolitical practice/research editorializes on contemporary global conditions.

eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music. Excited by experimentalism, they create space for artists and audiences to practise engaged listening and compassionate debate. Their activity includes a four-day festival, held at Cafe OTO in London, a podcast, and artist development opportunities. Their mission is to build community through an ethics of curiosity and care, in the belief that ripples do make waves.

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