Marey + Matt Clarke

Marey

Marey is an Icelandic duo that plays improvised experimental music mixed with electronics and poetry, where contemporary classical music, sound art, spoken word, and folk music meet.

They are two sisters: Anna Sóley and Lilja María. Anna Sóley plays the violin and sings, exploring soundscapes and extended techniques, using her voice at times between spoken words and singing. Lilja plays an instrument she designed called Hulda. They both design the electronics. For that, Anna mainly uses samples from Hulda, while Lilja works on a conceptual basis, taking inspiration from the poems and prose.

Matt Clarke

Matt Clark is a guitarist and improviser based in Brighton.

His work sidesteps traditional notions of harmony and melody, instead exploring the random and unexpected within improvisation around twelve tones, and the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques.

Long standing projects Simian Carbuncle (with Adrian Southby) and MC3 (with Charlotte Keeffe and James Edmunds) have proved fertile breeding grounds for experimentation, whilst recent collaborations with Annie Kerr and Toma Sapir as Larker, Gus Garside and Mark Wastell  have led to ideas for frameworks, leading to more structured improvisations.

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