Audio Foundation presents .. Monowatt
Mono Watt is James Littlewood, Ross Cunningham and John Pain, and together they make words and noise. That's why their album's called words + noise. Graham Reid reckoned that “Pain's electronics pushes it into space as Cunningham's low guitar grounds it”; and that it presents "an authentic voice & sonic settings which wrap around the experience”.
Mono Watt will perform their newly released debut album – words + noise – live with vocals, electric guitar, samplers and sequencers. With some hefty time in the rehearsal studio lately, this concert performance both reproduces and extends the sonic art of the album.
If you're heading into K Rd for The Others Way, you really should drop by Audio Foundation for this innovative contemporary sonic art project. Mono Watt hits the stage at 5 pm sharp, and will play for about 45 minutes. Entry by koha.
James Littlewood is a storyteller with a benign ambivalence around format. Basically, whatever works. He’s directed the Going West LitFest, produced 12 short poetry films, dozens of podcast episodes and several of Going West's famous slams and festivals. As writer and vocalist for Mono Watt, he mostly addresses themes of human relationships, sex and colonial inheritance, sometimes all at once.
Ross Cunningham is an artist and designer. With MONO WATT his tools of choice are the electric guitar, a polaroid camera and the blank page.
John Pain is a designer, musician and moving image specialist. Once the bassist in the Hallelujah Picassos, he has directed animated TV shows in far off lands, designed the still-fresh bFM logo, and helms the unruly electronic orchestra known as painspeople.
