TR071 - Cara Tolmie - 'towards a party (of 3 or 4 or 5)' by cafeOTO published on 2020-09-09T16:01:45Z Cara Tolmie's practice centres itself upon the voice, the body and the complex ties between the two. At once subjective as well as socially determined, she explores voice and body as two codependent entities able to prompt as well as contradict one another. Here, on her debut release, her vocal ruminations explore a practice of sounding on both the inhale and exhale as well as a self-soothing touch strategy she developed in reaction to symptoms triggered by post-concussion syndrome. In an attempt to displace vocality towards and through parts of the body extraneous to the mouth, Cara lets sounds forge paths and encircle the body's inner topography, soaking her voice through a labyrinth of pumping blood, organs and the touch of skin. The result is a music that offers snapshots of the body tempered by different conditions; resting, moving, listening, pleasure, strain and sensitivity. Cara invokes waves of sound; sometimes calm and meditative, sometimes teetering on discomfort; sometimes falling into an anxious refrain. 'Lit by a Car' offers the space and time to come to terms with these feelings and give them life - letting the breath of voice twist and turn in compellingly peculiar new directions. Comment by Fergus McQueenie x 2020-09-19T18:22:07Z