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Kara-Lis Coverdale + MFO

Sacred Phrases

Kara-lis Coverdale is a classically trained keyboardist who studied composition and musicology. She is known for blurring the lines between acoustic and electronic instrumentationandhas collaborated with LXV and most notably Tim Hecker, on his latest album Virgins. Her 2015 album, Aftertouches,explores and celebrates the multiple voices of the machine. Synthetic soundsintertwine with vocal harmonies and organic soundscapes to create a series of ‘celestial modern classical miniatures’. The Guardian mentioned Kara-lis Coverdale’s performance during Montreal’s Mutek as the ‘absolute festival highlight’.

Coverdale’s performancewill be accompanied by visuals made by renowned visual-artist MFO (Marcel Weber).He has been creating and directing audiovisual performances, installations and video works since 2001, previously working with Tim Hecker, Kode9, Biosphere andBenFrost. Webercontributed video design to theOpera National de Paris, the Academy of Arts Berlin and the Brut Theatre in Vienna. Expect a cosmos made out of textures and distortions, a magical experience of surreal moments: stimuli for the subconscious.