Performance of improvised electronic music by Anthony Guerra (electric guitar + electronics - top image) and Joel Stern (concrete sound + electronics - bottom image) 7.30pm at the Lighthouse Media Centre, Brighton.

Anthony Guerra is from Sydney, Australia and has been based in London since 1999. He performs improvised and composed music using modified and prepared guitar with live electronics. Performances this year have included appearances at the Freedom of the City Festival (London) and the What Is Music? Festival (Sydney & Melbourne). Anthony's second solo cd spool [#2] was recently released.

Joel Stern is an Australian artist based in London working with concrete sound, electronics and free improvisation. Over the past two years he has performed regularly in London and throughout Europe. Joel is involved with London's ResonanceFM as both a program maker and as a producer. His first solo cd unplugged/jodphur was recently released on TwoThousandAnd, a new label co-founded by Anthony Guerra and Michael Rodgers.

Joel Stern and Anthony Guerra met in London in 2000 and started performing and recording regularly as an improvising duo. Their first works focussed mainly on densely textural drones . produced by the meshing of layered electric guitar tones with processed environmental field recordings. Although the basic working materials have remained relatively unchanged, recent Stern/Guerra recordings and performances have shown an increasing attention towards minute gestural detail framed within sparsely arranged, slow moving passages of abstract continuity.

Anthony and Joel were featured on the Ringtones compilation on Touch Records and recently in the sound art exhibition Variable Resistance at the San Francisco MOMA in 2002. Their album Stitch was released in May 2003 on Impermanent Recordings (Sydney). Stewart Lee (Sunday Times) described it as, "an intricately constructed, deftly sustained and pervasively atmospheric exercise". You can read some other rave reviews here.