Kinlaw, Ka Baird, Qiujiang Levi Lu
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
All The Time In The World with L&SD presents an evening of sound and performance by three of NYC's most uncategorizable artists.
Greenpoint, BK
Friday, Feb 28th, 7-11pm
Artist Bios:
Kinlaw
Kinlaw’s work is deeply connected and entirely symbiotic. With over a decade in New York City, she has earned commissions from MoMA PS1, Pioneer Works, and the New Museum. Her forthcoming album, gut ccheck, is a sharp and thrilling fusion of pop, electronica, trap, and industrial sound built from motion. For Kinlaw, movement is often a way into the writing process. Sonically, the album found its foundation during a two-year residency at Bell Labs, where Kinlaw conducted research in the anechoic chamber—one of the quietest spaces on the planet, known for inducing panic and aural hallucinations. This research pushed Kinlaw to obliterate any divide between anatomy and the process of writing and perceiving sound. From this, gut ccheck emerges as an album rooted in the interrogation of perspective and of what a simple moment can become.
Ka Baird
Ka Baird is a performer, sound artist, musician and composer based in New York City. They are known for their live performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. They have performed at Unsound Festival (Krakow, PL), Lampo (Chicago, IL), MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY), The Kitchen (NYC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA), TUSK Festival (Newcastle, UK), KRAAK (Brussels, BE), Le Guess Who (Utrecht, NL), Intonal Festival (Malmo, SE) and the LA Philharmonic. They have been artist-in-residence at We Jazz Festival (Helsinki, FI), Sonoscopia (Porto, PT), Inkonst (Malmo, SE), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, IL), and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY). They have been a recipient of the Foundation of Contemporary Art's Emergency Grant, a Jerome Foundation Artist-In-Residence at Roulette Intermedium, and is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow through 2023-25.
Qiujiang Levi Lu
Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江) is a NYC-based performance artist, experimental musician, composer, and educator. Their work transforms the body into a sonic object through interactions with movements and audio technology, exploring identity, sound, and space. Lu designs customized feedback systems with cyborg-like body augmentations inspired by Objectophilia/animism. These include special microphones, speakers placed within bodily orifices, and an augmented amplified laptop. Their resulting performances consist of choreographed, ritualistic improvisations building upon ancient Chinese drumming traditions to manifest body dysmorphia, sexuality, spirituality, and mortality. Lu is the second-prize winner of The International Electronic Music Competition 2023. Their works have been featured at international festivals and venues such as MATA Festival, High Zero Festival, IRCAM Forum, SEAMUS conference, E-Flux, and NIME conference. Lu is an artist-in-residence at ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks, and Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm SE. Lu is currently a lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.