Lauren Sarah Hayes

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Lauren Sarah Hayes on making and experiencing sound — in a mausoleum, next to a waterfall, and through specially built furniture.

Episode 13: Lauren Sarah Hayes
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Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish musician and sound artist who builds and performs with hybrid analogue/digital instruments. She is a “positively ferocious improvisor” (Cycling ‘74), her music refusing to sit nicely between free improv, experimental pop, techno, and noise. Over the last decade she has developed and honed a deliberately challenging and unpredictable performance system that explores the relationships between bodies, sound, environments, and technology. The Wire described her most recent album MANIPULATION (pan y rosas discos) as “skittering melodies and clip-clopping rhythms suggesting a mischievous intelligence emerging from this web of wires”. She is a member of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 

Salton Sea - photo by Tobias Feltus

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A piece by the composer at age 6.

A piece by the composer at age 6.

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15 Seconds begins at 0:38. Recorded in Hamilton Mausoleum in Scotland.

15 Seconds is part of an ongoing series of site specific performances by musician and sound artist Lauren Sarah Hayes. Evoking the unique aural and visual qualities of the iconic Hamilton Mausoleum, boasting the longest echo in any man-made structure, her work offers an intimate concert experience, where the music is formed out of a relationship with the unique architecture of the building. Accompanied by sonically responsive flash light bulbs, the acoustic and visual possibilities of this remarkable landmark are truly revealed. www.laurensarahhayes.com www.soundingoutspaces.tumblr.com

Bridalveil begins at 8:00. Recorded in Yosemite National Park. 

Skin Music begins at 11:21. 

Lucky Dip, recorded in a pool in Arizona, begins at 17:41.  Part of the ARTELPHX festival hosted at the Clarendon Hotel, Phoenix, 14-16th May 2015.

Scorched Earth, recorded at the Salton Sea, begins at 20:26. 

technoscribble (from the album MANIPULATION) begins at 25:07. 

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Download Hayes' 2016 album Manipulation here - all donations for the album will go to GirlForward, a community of support dedicated to creating and enhancing opportunities for girls who have been displaced by conflict and persecution.

MANIPULATION is a collection of unedited one-take improvisations performed on unpredictable ecological hybrid analogue/digital/human systems. instability arises from the fragilities of touch-based engagement and mutually affecting relationships with…

MANIPULATION is a collection of unedited one-take improvisations performed on unpredictable ecological hybrid analogue/digital/human systems. instability arises from the fragilities of touch-based engagement and mutually affecting relationships within the technology. performed 2008 – 2016.

all music by lauren sarah hayes.

release date: september 15, 2016.

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