New collabortion with Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie
In 2023 we were commisioned to do a new piece for Counterflows and performed at Fylkingen 90. And we have spent the last year working on a new record together at EMS Stockholm.
Wire Magazine review
A collaboration by returning Counterflows performers Cara Tolmie and Rian Treanor. Tolmie uses a vocal practice called internal singing, controlling her inhalations and exhalations in an utterly astonishing way, mimicking digital samples, luring the audience into a thrilling kind of experimental listening where they question what they are hearing. Experiencing her breathwork and word play over Treanor's searching, hypnotic rave beats is the weekend's stone cold standout, hitting a sweet spot where skill and hedonism come together.
BIOG
CARA TOLMIE
Cara Tolmie (born Glasgow, 1984, based in Stockholm) spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as an artist, musician, performer, DJ, pedagogue and researcher. Her works have been performed and exhibited widely at art galleries, music festivals, biennials, conferences and in the public space - both as solo presentations and collaborative projects.
Her practice at large centres itself upon the voice, the body, and the complex ties between the two. All at once subjective as well as socially determined, she explores voice and body as two co-dependent entities able to confirm as well as contradict one another. Within this she often explores performative techniques that disorient the listening relationship between the singer and her audience through live uses of the defamiliarised, uncanny and sampled singing voice. Cara Tolmie is currently a PhD candidate in Critical Sonic Practice at Konstfack, Stockholm.
RIAN TREANOR
British artist Rian Treanor's music is complex yet highly kinetic, reflecting equal interest in club culture and experimental sound design. He has released records on Planet Mu, Nyege Nyege Tapes, The Death of Rave and Warp sub-label Arcola. Using the programming language Max/MSP he develops bespoke software to explore extended rhythmic techniques and algorithmic processes, building devices that enable spontaneous pattern modulation within various collaborations, workshops, live performances and installations.