Eli Gras


Eli Gras is a Spanish composer, multi-instrumentalist, illustrator, photographer, writer, and graphic designer. She is the founder of La Olla Expréss, which is a combination of multimedia publishing company and cultural association. She has also collaborated on several children's books and animation films, produced special effects for cinema and advertising, and promoted cultural projects and events.
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Biography

Gras was born into a large family in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona, Spain. She was a founding member of the experimental group Etnia with Juzz S. Ubach, Alain Wergifosse, and Florenci Salesas. Throughout the 1980s, she played with musicians from other fields and genres, including experimental, electropop, minimalism, and others. In the 1990s, she started performing her first solo concerts while continuing to expand her scope of collaborations. In the mid-1990s, she co-founded the Obmuz Trio with Quico Samsó and Alain Wergifosse.
In 2002, she founded La Olla Expréss, a cultural association created to publish books and CDs in atypical formats. Gras has also participated in European experimental music festivals such as Worldtronics, Imaxinasons, Jardines Éfemeros,, Blurred Edges, Sonar, and NoNoLogic, the last of which she founded in 2007, and for which she is currently director and coordinator. From 2012 to 2016, Gras held several performances at various locations in Spain, France, and The Netherlands, as well as participating in CCCB's Drap-Art-13 festival.

Musical style

Gras's music consists of combining improvisation with composed and structured themes, both instrumental and sung, with an emphasis on words and melodies of strong emotional character. She uses unconventional instruments such as toys, prepared guitars, and other artifacts, as well as conventional instruments such as electric bass, small electronic keyboards, and flutes.

Literature and other disciplines

Gras has enjoyed poetry, writing, and other artistic media since childhood. In 1998 she self-published Cuentos de la Olla Expréss, her first compilation of short stories.That volume was followed by Mis queridos objetos y otras poeprosas and Sin espejos. She has made appearances in collective readings with the poet and musician Cèlia Sànchez-Mústich. She has also been a radio presenter on the "Mans I mànigues" section of the Cabaret Electric program, hosted by. Other artistic fields she has worked in include graphic design, illustration, packaging, and photography.

Works

Apart from her solo work, Eli Gras is a former member of several groups such as

Solo works

  • 2002 – Baranda LP
  • 2016 – Xylotheque LP
  • 2018 – Grass Velvet LP
  • 2018 – Tasmanian Robinet EP
  • 2019 – Museum of the Dry Bugs Cassette tape + special object

Motor Combo

  • 2003 – El avión Single
  • 2012 – Polo LP

Collaborations

  • 1998 – Obmuz Band.
  • 1999 – Deep Gray Organics.
  • 2009 – Baby Elephant Walk.
  • 2010 – Calixto, song for Ego Twister Party Ruiners.
  • 2010 – Calixto, song for Music for Toys 3.
  • 2013 – Yan Lemonnier.
  • 2013 – Reedición de Obmuz Band.
  • 2014 – Crek-Walters-Gras-Caicedo. Juan Matos Capote. .
  • 2015 – Duplicat .
  • 2015 – Sound and Visual Walk.

Books

  • 2006 – Cuentos de La Olla Expréss
  • 2013 – Queridos Objetos y Otras Poeprosas
  • 2013 – ''Sin Espejos''

Performances, Residences

  • 2012 – l'oscil·lar and Saló Sonor, at Associació Priorat Centre d'Art
  • 2014 – Saló Sonor, with Mar Morey, at L'Estruch Centre D'art"
  • 2015 – Peeled Piano, at Champs des Possibles,
  • 2015 – De Perifeer, at
  • 2016 – Xylotheque at WORM
  • 2016 – Conference at Universidad de Jaén
  • 2016 – Furniture Talk! at ELISAVA