Charmaine Lee / Attic Talent at William A. Kerr Foundation

Attic Talent (Darin Gray & Robert Beatty)

Saturday, October 11, 2025 | 7pm Doors / 8pm Show

William A. Kerr Foundation ( 3716 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108 / map)

all ages event

Tickets are on a sliding scale from $20 – $10, with $10 student entry also available.

Advanced tickets are recommended. Tickets will always remain available to purchase at the door. Please note: Online ticket sales end at 3pm on day of show. NMC will always hold tickets available for purchase at the door after online ticket sales have ended. Additional info:

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Charmaine Lee is a New York-based vocalist. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses modular synthesis, and various microphones to augment and distort the voice. She has performed with leading improvisers Nate Wooley, id m theft able, and Ikue Mori, and maintains ongoing collaborations with Conrad Tao, Victoria Shen, Zach Rowden, and Eric Wubbels. She has performed at ISSUE Project Room, the Kitchen, Roulette, the Stone, and MoMA PS1, and participated in festivals including Resonant Bodies, Huddersfield Contemporary, and Ende Tymes. She has been featured in group exhibitions including The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging at the Museum of Chinese in America (2019).

As a composer, Charmaine has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and Spektral Quartet (2018). In 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room. Charmaine is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Sound American.

Bandcamp: https://charmainelee.bandcamp.com/

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Attic Talent

Darin Gray - upright bass

Robert Beatty - electronics

Attic Talent is a duo exploring surrealistic blends of melodic, haunting, and beautiful sound with original projection art featuring Darin Gray (upright bass, percussion, electronics) and Robert Beatty (electronics, visuals). While best known as a bassist regularly on tour with TWEEDY, On Fillmore, Jim O’Rourke, and William Tyler, Gray’s prepared bass and electronics setup has been featured in collaborations with leading improvisers in Chicago, Europe, Brazil, and Japan. Gray has been collaborating with Lexington, Kentucky-based visual artist and electronic musician Robert Beatty for the past three years: While he has previously used his own name and ‘Three Legged Race’ as noms d’klang – Beatty ’s underground impulses and tricks continue unabated under this new guise. Like the globally recognizable album art Beatty has created for himself and others, his electro-sonics blur the line between analog artifact and digital method. This ambiguity is intrinsic to his era-less weirdness as he creates mystery mindscapes and imaginary genres that are strangely proximate to 20th-century avant-classical, Komische, and lo-fi bedroom electronics.

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