11.18.11 - 8:00pm

Moniek Darge + Françoise Vanhecke & Graham Lambkin

“April Meeting” Festival, Belgrado, 2003

This event is part of “Everyday Experimental,” a series drawing inspiration from commonplace activities and inconsequential sounds of the everyday.

Moniek Darge, of the Belgian Logos Foundation, has been creating sonic art since the 1970s. Her soundscapes paint an aural picture of different locations in the world. Recently, she has also created collective soundscape compositions with other female composers. She will present some of these works, as well as others, with guests Françoise Vanhecke and Graham Lambkin. The most recent work brings sounds from Tamil Nadu in India and evokes the aural worlds of nature, rituals, commercial music and traffic.

Françoise Vanhecke is a vocalist, pianist, actress and composer. Darge and Vanhecke will present East Crete, Mother Goddess, a work compiled entirely from field recordings in Crete. Originally composed as part of annual intermedia arts event Levka Ori, East Crete, Mother Goddess fuses land and sound art to evoke the atmosphere of the island and recall the ancient hope for a utopian society.

Graham Lambkin was a part of the band The Shadow Ring, formed in England when he was 19. He moved to the U.S. in 1998, and in 2003 released I’m Some Songs with The Shadow Ring. Over the last few years, Lambkin has primarily worked under his own name, releasing two solo records (Salmon Run and Softly Softly Copy Copy), and two hardcover books featuring his writing and drawings (Dumb Answer to Miracles and Dripping Junk). His own Kye label releases both his own work and that of artists like Moniek Darge and Vanessa Rossetto.

Everyday Experimental is made possible, in part, through support from the Barbara Lee Family Foundation