Carmen Villain
KMRU presents WAI8
Throughout her career, Carmen Villain has crafted diverse sonic worlds shaped by her innate curiosity for sound. Her work inhabits a sweet spot between dub's blunt rhythmic lilt and cosmic fourth world, where snatches of instruments such as flute, voice and clarinet create evocative, granular soundscapes and melodies. Informed by jazz and ambient, Villain’s instrumental compositions are marked by unpredictability: intimate, airy and emotionally resonant, they culminate in deeply atmospheric live performances.
This artist is part of the program curated by KMRU. The sound artist presents WAI8, an eight-hour durational performance that examines time and attention through the practice of waiting as an active form of engagement. Its iteration at Le Guess Who? features nine performers, positioning waiting as a space where sound is allowed to breathe, decay and resonate over time.
Photography by Madeleine Hillestad
