Audio Foundation presents .. Monowatt
Mono Watt is a 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 the poetry is “somewhere between Kerouac, Sam Hunt … and Ginsberg”; 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.
Mono Watt hits the stage at 5 pm sharp, and will play for about 45 minutes.
Entry by koha.
Debut album “words + noise” available in vinyl at the gig, at Flying Out, or vinyl or streaming via Bandcamp.
James Littlewood is a storyteller with a benign ambivalence regarding format. Basically, whatever works. He directed the Going West LitFest through the lockdown years and over this time 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 the same time.
Ross Cunningham is an artist, a musician and an educator. Using a highly signal-processed electric guitar, he generates sonic soundscapes that range from walls of looping feedback to assertive sonic scraping (as Graham Reid put it).
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.
