Holly Rumble (loop pedal, musical saw, violin, glockenspiel, field recordings, bowed metal, music boxes, melodyhorn, water, electricity, matches, contact mic, zither, and many other things to weigh down my gig bag).
John Boursnell does important live things like playing the ukulele and preventing feedback. He also mixed the End of the Night Loops EP for me!
Influences
Broadcast Mira Calix
A Hawk And A Hacksaw Le Volume Courbe Joanna Newsom Josephine Foster Jan Svankmajer Yann Tiersen Jacques Brel Scott Walker birds mountains C19th automata
Sounds Like
Mechanical insects surrounding the village violin-maker
First played in 2001 in London and then moved to Norwich. We play fairly often in Norwich, mainly at the Arts Centre, though if anyone wants to offer us a gig in another part of the country I will make a portable version of all my junk. I make live loops from a variety of objects, some of which are instruments, but I’m mainly interested in the sounds you can get out of other things. My current favourite toy is a silver plated tray attached to a contact mic.
RELEASES:
ILYA & EMILIA FOR EXAMPLE (March 2008): a new track ’Lady Bower Reservoir’ on a lovely compilation CD.
END OF THE NIGHT LOOPS (August 2007): a 30 minute collection of loops recorded between 2006 and 2007. These are the results of the gradual layering of sounds during a performance. It isn’t on the Ilya and Emilia website yet, but should be soon!
BEE EP (August 2006): 23 minutes of music and field recordings, including Aubert and Sawdust. It’s available at www.ilyaandemilia.co.uk. All the packaging is handmade, and held together with a ribbon.
DOUBLE BOW (November 2006): Quartet is a track I made for an installation at a gallery in Stroud in December. It was produced by playing a glass, a strip of metal, a shelf bracket, and a metal tank with a violin bow. High frequencies, but you get used to it! Also lots of fun to make.
Thanks for looking,
Holly
xx
PS See my blog for sound art stuff: http://www.soundartist.wordpress.com
Oh nothing specific, just said anything by Shangri Las, Dusty or Marianne Faithful. That's cool! BBC Norwich or something else? I've got a badass lumpy throat and I have to hand in my project next week!! Wrong time to be ill...
holly, just so you know, I'm putting a request on sound of the 60s for dad on the 9th june from all three of us. thought it woiuld just be silly if it was just from me...
facts are facts, i can't lie about it... 2.30 start is a fact, you're playing is a fact, we should probably all get there at 12ish is a possible fact, i'm not very organised, that's a fact, truth be told, fact is i'm not totally sure... but i've made posters now, so that's that.
and what's more, it's going to be fucking great, and that's a fact.
i think youll find that chiwhaegrw have low intelligence, and deserve to be kicked into a train station… or something… and also, carryer pigeons were used in WW1, so i be correct. for once. yay! …my friend looks like a panda-- big, fat, and foreign!! lol
Howolly. I hate to say it but I haven't spoken to you since ages ago, and it's now nearly christmas. and I've conformed to myspace tendencies. I hate it! See you sooner than you read this xx
