Kat Arney - plays harp, clarinet, bass clarinet, spoons, recorder, piano etc etc with all sorts of people.
Influences
Anything and everything including classical, jazz, folk, acoustic, rock, pop, electronica, Hip hop... Debussy, Nick Drake, Joanna Newsom, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, FourTet, Zakir Hussein, The Beatles, Pink martini, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhardt, Koop, Caribou, Nina Simone, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Faith No More, DJ Shadow, Matthew Herbert, De La Soul, Roots Manuva, Cinematic Orchestra, Serafina Steer, Hanne Hukkelberg, Bjork, John Taverner, The Shivers, Charles Mingus, Christina Aguilera, Toumani Diabate, Zeena Parkins, Stravinsky, Holst, Vaughan Williams, RJD2, Ravel, Steve Reich, Bjork, Thomas Tallis, oh loads of people...
Kat Arney has been making music since before she was tall enough to reach the piano keys. Now still not tall enough to reach the keys, she plays harp, clarinet, bass clarinet, spoons and more or less anything else she can get her hands on.
Kat is usually found playing with the Cambridge-based eclectic acoustic/Indian outift Sunday Driver Sunday Driver and future pop/electronica act The Shadow Orchestra, but freely admits to being a complete musical whore who will go with anyone (email me or message me for session work!). Also available for weddings, funerals, Bar Mitzvahs and well=paying corporate functions...
On the album "What a woman shouldn't do" by Julie McKee
On a recording of new work "Fallen to Dust" for composer David Braid
Sultry jazz clarinet as half of Polkadots and Moonbeams, every other Thursday at the Snooty Fox in Canonbury
Harp-hop with Kingdom of Meerkats, featuring members of Belleruche
Gypsy jazz with Ultrafox
As resident harpist at the Spitz Bistro in East London for several years until its closure at the hands of evil property developers
In her other life, Kat's a professional science communicator for Cancer Research UK, where she helps to write the charity's award-winning Science Update blog. In her spare time she's a freelance writer and radio broadcaster with the Naked Scientists. She is also an avid knitter and cake baker. Kat's hobby is staying awake for extended periods of time.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Hey -- Tickets are on sale now for my show at the ICA in London on the 9th of November! You can get them from the ICA box office, or from the Gaymonkey Shop. I haven't been to the UK in awhile - so I'm looking forward to seeing you at the show and performing some new songs. /ebb
After the majestic powerhouse of an LP that was [Audissect], Ventolyn & Becotyde delivers another 7 tracks of electronic nourishment. "Neuro Torque" expands upon the ideas of [Audissect], ups the ante, and adds complex rhythms, complete with tasty melodies and added crunch. It also flows like a dream with every track complimenting the next, this EP delivers the goods then takes your face off. Ventolyn & Becotyde and Section 27 are proud to give you "Neuro Torque", now available for free download. Like all good things should be.
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Mmmm...glastonbury was a bit of a blast! Hurt my ears...
I DID get a car...a big Volvo estate, but due to unforseen circumstances, I still haven't had time to take my test, so can't drive it...however, at the moment my harp is being hauled around the world by the FATM roadies in a big van, with a proper flightcase and everything, so it's all taken care of :-)
On July 17th, incite/ will perform in London the first time in almost two and a half years! The performance will be on a DarkFiber (aka AV Social) night at the BFI Southbank. The event centers around the 40 anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, featuring first men landing on the moon. We have prepared a new track that..s just ready to be premiered on this occasion.
Also presented this night: a film remix of George Lucas' first film THX1138 by Oli Sorenson and Dan Tait plus a variety of space-related screenings featuring Semiconductor and others. (10pm, free entrance)
Would be fantastic to meet if you happen to be around! Kera + André
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