Aurelie live shows

Various, April 2007 - present

Aurelie is a music and performance group that formed in 2001, recording and releasing their first album, 'Desde Que Naci', on Swim Records in 2003. The album combined ambient electronics and minimalist instrumental pieces, receiving positive reviews from magazines including The Wire and Uncut.

Aurelie reconvened in 2006 as a loose-knit collective, developing new working methods during a period spent as artists-in-residence at Leicester’s Haymarket Theatre that resulted in a series of multi-media performances made in response to the city’s vanishing industrial architecture. Since then, they have regularly performed in arts centres, universities, music venues and festivals around the country. Recent projects include composing music for the Midlands-based Lyric Lounge Festival, developing a new festival of experimental music in Cumbria and running workshops in sound art for young people.

Members:
Francis O'Donnell Smith is a visual artist and musician working across a range of digital media. Past projects include developing systems of graphic notation with secondary school students, an online Creativity Audit commissioned by Creative Partnerships and recording his compositions with a string quartet.

David Dhonau is a photographer, musician and filmmaker.  His many projects outside of Aurelie include playing cello with improvising trio Accortumn as well as writing and recording under the various guises of Daidono, Dogcub and Pricewar Poet. He has recentlly completed an interdisciplinary MA at Leicester’s Institute of Creative Technologies.

Euan Rodger is an artist and improvising musician. In addition to performing regularly as a member of Black Carrot and Dragon or Emperor, recent shows have seen him collaborate with renowned musicians such as Evan Parker, Charles Hayward, Damo Suzuki, Faust and Polar Bear. He is also a regular contributor to artist Jamie Shovlin’s 'Lustfaust Live' project.

Ola Szmidt is an improvising flautist and vocalist based in Leicester.

John Hall is a visual artist, sound artist and creative facilitator based in Barrow In Furness. He is resident artist at Barrow Island Community Primary School and performs music as a member of mixed-media improvisation band Good Noise Bad Noise, and solo as The Cardboard Lung.

Damian Rose is an actor, musician and Barrow AFC fan based in Cumbria.

www.aurelie.org.uk