Friday 28 March 2025, 7.30pm
Doors are at 7:30pm and music will start from 8pm
Stephanie Lamprea | soprano
Anna Zaradny | electronics
eavesdropping returns to Cafe OTO for another four-day festival, curated by Juliet Fraser, which includes four evening double-bill events and a weekend-long forum (at Vortex Jazz Cafe) of provocations exploring 'Experiments in Magic'. We hope to stimulate your ears and your imagination by presenting new work by eight artists working at the experimental fringes of a variety of genres. The programming within each set is artist-led: repertoire is only announced on the night.
eavesdropping
eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music. Excited by experimentalism, we create opportunities for artists and audiences to practise engaged listening and compassionate debate. Our activity includes a festival, a forum, a podcast, and training and development workshops. Our mission is to build community through an ethics of curiosity and care, in the belief that ripples do make waves.
https://www.eavesdropping.london
eavesdropping is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner supported by PPL. eavesdropping gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants, the Hinrichsen Foundation & the eavesdropping consortium.
Colombian-American soprano STEPHANIE LAMPREA is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist, specializing in contemporary classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, she uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character... like an icepick through the skull” (Jason Eckardt). She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium, Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Kings Place, Southbank Centre, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, CCA Glasgow, the Hidden Door Festival, and the Casa da Música (Porto). Her albums 'Quaking Aspen', Georges Aperghis' 14 Récitations and 'Don't Add to Heartache' have been released to international critical acclaim. Stephanie has also collaborated with Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Sō Percussion, and Post Coal Prom Queen.
ANNA ZARADNY is a sound and visual artist, composer, instrumentalist and co-founder of the Musica Genera Festival and record label. Though classically educated, she works in a wide spectrum of genres: from acoustic improvised music with a contemporary minimalist language to the complex structures of experimental electronic music compositions. As a visual artist, Zaradny works in various media to create installations, objects, photography and video. She uses abstraction, micro sound and architectonic elements, lights and space. She also composes music for theatre and multimedia projects. Her discography includes solo recordings and collaborative projects with BurkhardStangl, Christian Fennesz, Robert Piotrowicz, Jerome Noetinger, Tony Buck, Kasper Toeplitz, Cor Fuhler, Juliet Fraser and Florentin Ginot. Resident of Museums Quartier Vienna 2005, Winner of the 'Views 2011 - Deutsche Bank Foundation Award', Zachęta National Art Gallery, SHAPE /platform for innovative music and audiovisual art from Europe 2017.
