E L F A / F O L K T R O N I C A
Victoria Macarte (ELFA) will be performing at Lanercost as part of our little Arts and Music Festival on Friday 26th June.
ELFA performs FOLKTRONICA, a collection of British folk songs from the future, accompanied by three analogue synths making noise like a storm on the horizon and pulsating minimal, greco-roman jungle beats like the nation’s charred post-industrialist heart, sang through a vocodor distorting a fairy-like voice with demonic undertones as an echo of the unrest festering beneath our beautiful, bucolic green landscapes.
Since returning to her native amphibian habitat, Cumbria, her work has shifted towards ecofeminist, spiritual science-fiction to reimagine a future folklore from an alternative reality, seeking to reconcile the beauty and horror in the world for an ellipsis in time, and reclaim our bodies, voices and narratives from hypercapitalist consumer colonial-imperialism.
When she grows up she hopes to become a force of nature.
Adults £5 admittance All Children free
Bring a Picnic Rug or chair, your own picnic tea including drinks (BYO). No food/bar available.
Toilets will be open at Dacre Hall.
Tickets – https://www.trybooking.com/uk/GMQV
Originally from Cumbria and from a dance background, after training in theatre, ballet and contemporary dance in some of London’s most prestigious schools, Victoria went on to study Butoh with a Japanese master and has been based in Catalonia since 2004. Emerging from Barcelona’s underground electronic music and digital arts scene, after a short but intense period in New York, she moved to Cadaqués to make her home alongside surrealism and the elements. From this base, her work immersed itself in the natural environment, deepened into improvisation and expanded across collaborations in music, performance, spoken word, video and cinema; defined by an aesthetic rather than a medium or discipline.
https://elfasounds.bandcamp.com/music