zosha warpeha (LP release party)
tongue depressor
ka baird/reona/chuckbettis
5.12.26
7pm - 11pm
tongue depressor
ka baird/reona/chuckbettis
5.12.26
7pm - 11pm
'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
Zosha Warpeha is a performer-composer working at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. Performing on the sympathetic-stringed Hardanger d'amore, her durational pieces are explorations of time, tonality, and resonant space. At L&SD, she celebrates the release of I grow accustomed to the dark, her latest solo LP on Outside Time. “Otherworldy… These are compositions that rely on nuances of the performing body, an assembly of sonic gestures that beckon your ear to lean in closer” (The Wire).
BANDCAMP: https://zosha.bandcamp.com/
INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/zoshazosha/
BANDCAMP: https://zosha.bandcamp.com/
INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/zoshazosha/
Tongue Depressor (New England, USA) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write and perform drone-based music with bagpipes, double bass, pedal steel/lap steel, tape loops, organs, harmonicas, and bells. They tour regularly in North America, Europe, and the UK.
BANDCAMP: https://tonguedepressor.bandcamp.com/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/tongue___depressor/?hl=en
REONA is an artist who uses tap dance techniques to express her music.
She is also a tap dancer, improviser, designer, choreographer, teacher, and composer.
Based in Tokyo, Japan.
To materialize the sounds in her head, she uses tap shoes and a wooden board, as well as metal sheets, chains, steel bowls, plastic bags, and loudspeakers.
Her sound is noise music–like, and she has performed with many improvisers, dancers, painters, and free jazz musicians. Her sound impulses are directly connected to her legs, and she expresses herself using everything available in her body, including her arms and mouth — making for a one-of-a-kind presence.
https://reonatap.therestaurant.jp/
CHUCK BETTIS was raised in the fertile harDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York's experimental realms. His unique blend of electronics and throat has led him into various collaborations with great musicians from around the globe.
https://chuckbettis.com
Ka Baird is a performer, sound artist, musician and composer based in New York City. Using extended voice and microphone techniques along with electronics, feedback, field recordings, and flutes, they explore the outer dimensions of sound through performance. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension.
https://www.kabaird.com