Lauren Sarah Hayes’s music is a mix of experimental pop/techno/noise/free improvisation, and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’. She is a sculptress of sound, manipulating, remixing, and bending voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software live and physically. EEL TANK is the solo performance project of Santa Cruz based musician Nicki Duval (they/them), often with live 3D-modeled visuals by Daniel Mangosing (he/him). Drawing from their love of horror and sci-fi as well as a fascination with liquid, EEL TANK merges hard software techno with erratic vox and elements of queer performance.

Lauren Sarah Hayes

Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish live electronics improviser and sound artist based in Tempe, AZ. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’. She is a sculptress of sound, manipulating, remixing, and bending voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software live and physically. She is excited by what can happen in the vulnerable relationships between sound, space, and audience. The Wire described her 2016 album MANIPULATION (pan y rosas discos) as “skittering melodies and clip-clopping rhythms suggesting a mischievous intelligence emerging from this web of wires”. Her recent 2021 release Embrace (Superpang) was included in Bandcamp’s Best Experimental Music of February 2021. She is a member of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Director-At-Large of the International Computer Music Association, and has published extensive scholarly writing on topics related to sound, haptics and touch, embodied and enactive music cognition, interdisciplinary improvisation, and site-responsive sonic art.

EEL TANK

EEL TANK is the solo performance project of Santa Cruz based musician Nicki Duval (they/them), often with live 3D-modeled visuals by Daniel Mangosing (he/him). Drawing from their love of horror and sci-fi as well as a fascination with liquid, EEL TANK merges hard software techno with erratic vox and elements of queer performance. They have previously performed with Gilla Band (fka Girl Band), Container, Boy Harsher, Bookworms, Dreamcrusher, Deli Girls, and Machine Girl, among others, and toured both coasts of the US. EEL TANK has released two cassettes - “CURE” (2018) and “Neon Dawn” (a split with Pamela_and her sons, 2020).