The Exploits of Elaine is a loose group who make music without leadership or prefiguration and revel in the joys of the immanent, the unexpected and the mistaken. Through our music we try and break down the opposition between the individual and the collective: we hope that each player remains thoroughly embedded in collective musical relationships but retains their difference.
Given that, it is to be expected that our performances vary according to line-up and mood, but we typically take great joy in deconstructing a variety of musical forms (krautrock, gamelan, folk traditions, post-punk, no wave)- reshaping them into ghostly shapes and ecstatic trance-outs. We utilise whatever we can lay our hands on: guitars, bike wheels, circuit bent keyboards and homemade percussion all feature prominently, whilst contact mics are used to play floors, radiators and our bodies.
