Sara Evelyn is a composer-performer with a background in visual arts and scenography. Her work considers space, materiality, and site, often responding to the acoustic or material elements of a specific place or environment. Sara’s practice focuses on listening and improvisation as compositional techniques, interweaving field recording, voice, pipe organ, harp, synthesizer, and tape.
Recent work includes Cysgodion (‘shadows’), released on Sionci, TÅ· Cerdd’s artist-led label, that presents seven new works for violin and electronics.
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Originally from Wales, Sara worked and studied in Slovenia (2013-17) and Norway (2017-19). They are currently based in South West Wales.
Reviews
2023 lasus barrow by Enja Grabrijan radioštudent
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'lasus barrow presents with expressive clarity a penetrating and polished sound at the intersection of electronics and acoustics. The track titles lead the listener through an interspace that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy. All three compositions are connected by a flow that could be attributed to water, everything from the uneven dripping inside a cave to the mighty roaring of the river and the waves of the sea. This evokes the questions of cultural theorist Astrid Neimanis, who connects embodiment with omnipresent water and who is interested in how paying attention to such connections can help us to imagine justice, care and attitude towards the environment in a different way in a time of increasingly pronounced climate change. Likewise the floating music on lasus barrow, Sara Evelyn's short debut, invites us to recognize the diverse connections of the world and to reflect on our own place in it.'
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