Orchid Sounds: A night of boundary-pushing improvised music.

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Doors 6:00pm; Music 7:00pm – 10:00pm

https://www.eventcreate.com/e/orchid-sounds

Featuring:

Lori Goldston & Shelley Hirsch (Duo)

Charmaine Lee

Pyron & Julia Santoli (Duo)

Tamio Shiraishi

Artist Bios:

Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography. Current and former collaborators and/or bosses include Earth, Nirvana, Mirah, Jessika Kenney, Ilan Volkov, Eyvind Kang, Stuart Dempster, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jherek Bischoff, Malcom Goldstein, Steve Von Till, Lonnie Holley, Cat Power, Ellen Fullman, Maya Dunietz, Mik Quantius, Embryo, O Paon, Tara Jane O’Neil, Natacha Atlas, Broken Water, Ed Pias, Christian Rizzo and Sophie Laly, Threnody Ensemble, Cynthia Hopkins, 33 Fainting Spells, Vanessa Renwick, Mark Mitchell, Lynn Shelton, and many more.

https://www.lorigoldston.com/

Born and raised in East New York Brooklyn, Vocal Artist, Performer, Composer, Storyteller, Interdisciplinary Artist Shelley Hirsch has been pushing boundaries with her unique vocal art and performance work, drawing on her life experiences, her memory, her vivid imagination for decades. The New York Times called her “A woman of a thousand voices... She offered an enthralling demonstration of the way songs, vocal styles and language might have evolved out of more primal musical impulses”.

http://www.shelleyhirsch.com/shelley/

Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is an Australian vocalist based in New York. Using the voice, feedback, and live processing, Lee’s practice is primarily concerned with risk-taking, playfulness, and improvisation. She has been recognized as “extraordinary” by New Yorker and has been featured in New York Times, Washington Post, and Wire Magazine. As a composer, Lee has been commissioned by leading institutions including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, and HBO Max. Lee is an Emergent Ventures winner (2024) and was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (2019) and a Van Lier Fellow at Roulette (2021). Her long-standing collaborators include Conrad Tao and Ikue Mori (MacArthur Fellow).

https://www.charmainelee.com/

PYRON is a live performance blend of vocal improvisation and electronics. Continuously curious and experimental atmospheres diving within, between, and beyond genres to discover new variations of multi-dimensional and emotionally rendering designs in visual art and sound.

https://www.jenniferpyron.com/

Julia Santoli is a multi-disciplinary artist, experimental musician, and arts organizer. Santoli creates immersive and precarious environments with voice, feedback, electronics, and installation. Her approach to vocalization integrates embodied practice with an attention to close listening and empathetic response, in compositions and structured improvisations often tipping the scales between resonant clarity and extreme sonic states. She is currently pursuing research on collaboration within SE Asian diasporic music initiatives as a doctoral student at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

https://www.juliasantoli.net/

Tamio Shiraishi is a saxophonist and vocalist who has been performing extreme music for decades.

https://www.ninaprotocol.com/articles/all-music-is-noise-for-me-tamio-shiraishi-in-conversation-with-tony-price-and-alex-zhang-hungtai

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