Data Cult Audio

About: Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish musician and sound artist who builds and performs with hybrid analogue/digital instruments. She is a “positively ferocious improvisor” (Cycling ‘74), her music refusing to sit nicely between free improv, experimental pop, techno, and noise. Over the last decade she has developed and honed a deliberately challenging and unpredictable performance system that explores the relationships between bodies, sound, environments, and technology. The Wire described her most recent album MANIPULATION (pan y rosas discos) as “skittering melodies and clip-clopping rhythms suggesting a mischievous intelligence emerging from this web of wires”. She is a member of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop and currently lives in Arizona where she teaches electronic music. Originally broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Commissioned by hcmf//  Links: laurensarahhayes.com instagram.com/elleesaich soundcloud.com/elleesaich twitter.com/elleesaich laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com pariesa.com