Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor

This new collaboration between Cara Tolmie and Rian Treanor is a highly kinetic and playful endeavour. Body centric vocal explorations, meet with intricate rhythmic systems in an otherworldly space occupied by sounding inhalations, hedonistic swells, dissociative beats, mimicked samples and meandering word play.

Focusing on the expanded edges of voice and computer music and how they merge and escalate one another, their collaboration plays with an effusive form of experiential listening. One that lifts, releases and invites the audience into new terrains of ecstatic and at times jarring physical and sensorial musical encounters.

After playing Counterflows Festival & Fylkingen 90th in 2023 they are currently working on an upcoming new record with a select few live shows planned in the lead up to the release.

– THE WIRE, review from Counterflows Festival 2023
“In the middle is a collaboration by returning Counterflows performers Cara Tolmie and Rian Treanor. Tolmie uses a vocal practice called internal singing, controlling her inhalations and exhalations in an utterly astonishing way, mimicking digital samples, luring the audience into a thrilling kind of experimental listening where they question what they are hearing. Experiencing her breathwork and word play over Treanor’s searching, hypnotic rave beats is the weekend’s stone cold standout, hitting a sweet spot where skill and hedonism come together. An intersection where the truly inventive, massively enjoyable Counterflows festival often finds itself.” – Claire Sawers