VA AA LR are the trio of Vasco Alves, Adam Asnan and Louis Rice. They are the ultimate re-imagineers and rethinkers of your daily sound environment, using non conformist techniques and arte povera methods in contemporary music.

“When you begin to wonder if improvised music has done all it can, a group of young upstarts go about proving you wrong. Vasco Alves, Adam Asnan and Louie Rice have a way of rethinking improvisation through the instruments/objects used and environment they are put to use within. An early album saw fire extinguishers play a key role, and a concert at London’s Cafe OTO was enhanced halfway through when a car pulled up outside and additional prerecorded sounds were blasted into the building from the vehicle’s oversized stereo.”

Will Guthrie is a France based Australian drummer / percussionist who takes the drum into non-convenient and unusual performance contexts, as well musically wise as in stage wise. He improvises hardcore solosets that plays onto polyrythms, overtones and phase shifting, playing in a cano on a lake, or in a 4 meter square trailer is not unusual for the challenging man. For the Ear to the Ground festival he will perform Solo for 1 person, in which a 1 person audience is crucial within this intimate composition.