An autodidact multi-artist, Eli Gras (Barcelona, 1971) is founder and editor of La Olla Expréss (an editorial and of artistic production project) and she has always combined her literary abilities with her musical ones. Under the first, she has published two books: "Cuentos de la Olla Expréss" and "Queridos Objetos y otras Poeprosas". In the world of music, she has walked a long way through experimental music, rock, minimalism and electronic.
She has formed part of OBMUZ (with Alain Wergifosse and Quico Samsó), Elio (with Io Casino), the improvisation group Sant Bonobo Orquesta (with Wergifosse, Rosa Arruti, Ferran Fages, Miguel Ibáñez, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Jakob Draminsky, etc) and has taken part in several projects of Alain Wergifosse. Actually she is part of the Laptopless Orquestra and the electronic duo Motor Combo (next to Florenci Salesas). As Eli Gras she has published her first CD: "Baranda" (La Olla Expréss, 2003).
Her music plays with improvisation and with the use of electronic instruments combined with instruments invented by herself, toys, prepared guitars, diverse artefacts and other instruments such as the bass or flutes. Like she herself explains, her music has a nearly animistic philosophy, using materials which gain life and express themselves with their own language, all this through her hands and using electronics as a sound processor.

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• Baranda (CD, La Olla Expréss, 2003)