Emily Adele Williams is a cello player and improviser
collaborating on various of musical projects and styles over her career.
Emily performs solo cello works in unusual spaces such as caves across various countries, she also performs in her solo soundscapes audio/visual project Night Diver,
and with experimental ambient pop duo Au Revoir Hands alongside composer/producer
Anth Lyons on Buchla easel, also with cello duo Sonder Lines with cellist Rachel Morris.
About
Emily Adele Williams is an Australian cello player and improviser. The music blends broad musical styles from modern classical, post minimalist, electronic and experimental avant pop mixing influences from contemporary music creating a wide spectrum of sounds from her instrument from intimate simplicity to atmospheric soundscapes and making full use of technology using her laptop and effected amplified Cello.
Music Projects
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Au Revoir Hands
A music duo of cello and buchla synth creating music across the Hemispheres. Fusing sounds from the cello, buchla music easel synth, beats and samples they explore the worlds of experimental ambient pop and post-minimal electronics.
A momentary pausing to look out beyond the forces that push and pull us. Music about navigation and voyages, a sound world sitting at the intersections of neo-classical electronic music and avant pop. -
Night Diver
A solo cello performance of multi layered effected cello with projected visuals from bioluminescence and deep sea creatures. The multiple layers of cello and shimmering electronics are slowly interwoven evoking anticipation, longing & stillness. The music is emotionally charged with revolving arpeggios which drift around a motif of atmospheric, low end drone-like ambience, disquieting moody melodies & airy experimental minimalism.
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Sonder Lines
A spirited duo of Australian cellists interweave melodies with both intention and spontaneity, blending elements of contemporary musical styles with classical genres.
Whether interlacing their melodies with the sounds of nature, birds, wind and trees, or adding some visual artistry into their performances, Emily and Rachel craft their live performances to create an immersive sonic experience.
Performances
Previous performances have included:
The Centre Pompidou in Paris
The National Gallery of Victoria
Port Fairy Folk Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square Melbourne
Cockatoo Island Sydney
Mount Aenos, Astro Observatory, Kefalonia, Greece
Sarris Winery, Kefalonia, Greece
The Silent Film Festival in London’s Bioscope
Canary Wharf Rooftop Garden Festival
Electundra AV Festival
Blue Mountains Music Festival
Melbourne Recital Centre
Guggenheim Exhibition at NGV Melbourne
Henri IV Chateau Squires Loft Nerac, France
Caves in the South of France
Drogarati Cave, Kefalonia, Greece
Press & Reviews
“Cellist Emily Williams, an innovative and genre-defying solo instrumentalist in her own right” Beat Magazine
“her compositions reveal a passion and a deep understanding of classical music rules and most importantly a willingness to subvert them to create lush and breathtaking musical landscapes” Pearl Latnern
“Williams is not adverse to a little inter-genre musical relations. Moreover, her compositions reveal a passion and a deep understanding of classical music rules and most importantly a willingness to subvert them to create lush and breathtaking musical landscapes”
It’s classical but not as we know it The Age
Art After Dark Series - Guggenheim Exhibition
“Rebuilding themselves for this series, with two computers, a modular synthesizer, sampler and an array of effects, ii are performing in collaboration with cellist Emily Williams, together they composed an hour-long suite of new music for the Guggenheim exhibition” Geek Girl Blog
“Cellist Emily Williams, an innovative and genre-defying solo instrumentalist in her own right, was a perfect fit for support of American wunderkind Kaki King (USA)” Beat Magazine, Jesse Shrock
“The National Gallery of Victoria has worked with DJ Maison and cellist Emily Williams to curate a program that NGV senior program co-ordinator Ben Divall says has an “intelligent approach to DJing and music”
Getting down with the kids The Age
