CAPTIVATING singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer Seaming To has been hailed as ‘the voice of the 21st century’ by BBC Radio 1, and her most recent tour, which features her new song cycle, Songs for My Grandmother, takes in The Shed at Brawby on Tuesday, March 12.

Seaming has contributed her unique vocals to the music of Robert Wyatt, Graham Massey, Homelife and Cinematic Orchestra. Her compelling new work combines the skills and experience of three generations of Chinese women traversing vocal and experimental electronic music and also features her mother, acclaimed concert pianist, Enloc Wu.

Songs for My Grandmother is a homage to one woman through the eyes of her granddaughter and combines voice, dulcitone, clarinet, piano, spycorders, vintage electronics and the words of celebrated poet, Judy Kendall.

Hailing from a family of concert pianists, Seaming studied opera at the Royal Northern College of Music and began her career as part of Manchester super groups, Homelife and Graham Massey’s Toolshed.

She has since performed around the world, her experimental ethos and multi-instrumental mastery enabling her to collaborate with some of the most inventive artists of the last decade, including Jean Claude Vannier, Punchdrunk Theatre, Herbaliser, Leila on Warp records, electronic outfit Funckarma, James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco, Michael England, Forkbeard Fantasy Theatre, avant garde pianist Leon Michener, Bordeaux Symphony Orchestra, composer Larry Goves and pianist Matthew Bourne.

Seaming has also composed music for film and theatre including Stormbringer at the National Theatre; Jenna Collins’ film, More Real Than The Every Day World; Forkbeard Fantasy, plus soundtracks for Maya Deren’s At Land and Meshes of the Afternoon performed at the Barbican, Southbank and Latitude.

She is currently working on a new commission to compose a piece based on the Aurora Borealis for The NLSOrchestra to premiere in 2013.

Supporting Seaming To is Kira Kira, the alias of Icelandic composer and audio/visual artist, Kristin Björk Kristjansdottir. A founder member of Kitchen Motors, a mischievous label and collective based on experiments in electronic music and arts, Kristin continually breaks boundaries between forms and genres. Her repertoire includes compositions for theatre, film, dance and art installations, as well as playful multi-disciplinary productions that exceed her work as merely a composer.

Kira Kira has created a special solo set for this tour incorporating music and visuals from her latest album, Feathermagnetik, and first feature film, Grandma Lo-Fi.

“It’s an honour, as always, to be able to present artists of the calibre of Seaming To at The Shed and it never ceases to make me smile when I see the words ‘The Shed, Brawby’ listed alongside major venues in Manchester, Brighton, Oxford and, in this case, The Purcell Room in London,” said Simon Thackray, the brains behind The Shed.

“Most people in Ryedale probably think of food when they say, “Shall we go out for a Chinese?” and this gig should be no exception.

“I managed to bag the Tuesday night of the tour which means that people travelling to Brawby for the gig can, if they so wish, eat freshly cooked fish and chips from the mobile chip van that calls at Brawby on Tuesdays at 6.45pm. Chinese and fish and chips in Brawby? Have both on one night!.”

The concert starts at 8pm, tickets are £15/£10 under 18s. Fish and chips are sold separately. Visit www.theshed.co.uk