"Lurch and Holler” is E .Liz Downing and Michael Willis.
For 25 years, Liz Downing and Michael Willis have been making sounds together in different configurations such as “Lambs Eat Ivy”, “Girls’ Ranch”, “Radiant Pig” and now “Lurch and Holler”. In these musical performance art groups they have employed banjo, synthesizer, washboard, field recordings, sets and costumes to create plays and concerts, touring nationally in venues such as The Whitney, Hirshhorn Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum. They have been awarded grants such as the National Endowment for the Arts, Franklin Furnace Interdisciplinary Arts Grant and Maryland State Arts Council grants. They have received residencies from Yellow Springs Institute and the Wooster Group. Lurch and Holler has just completed their 3rd home recording, “This Pink Hue” and are creating sound fields in collaboration with experimental film makers Catherine Pancake and Julia Oldham. “Lurch and Holler” have lately been inspired by the works of Homer, Flannery O'Connor,