CUSP Presents: Drew Wesely // Uno Lady

Name: CUSP Presents: Drew Wesely // Uno Lady
Start: 2024-11-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 1433 E 33rd St, Cleveland, OH 44114-4031, United States

Schedule

Fri Nov 22 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1433 E 33rd St, Cleveland, OH 44114-4031, United States | Cleveland, OH

Friday, November 22
Calicchia Gallery Studio, 1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, Music 8PM
Admission $15
Drew Wesely
Uno Lady
Drew Wesely is a guitarist, composer, and improvisor based out of Brooklyn, NY. Their music explores relationships between timbre, gesture, duration and the fractal scales of form that emerge through improvisation. Their compositional approach aims to set processes in motion which engage spacial and physical aspects of sound perception.
Drew’s interest in how states of consciousness affect the unfolding of sound as an experience and the implications it presents as an embodied phenomena has led them to create large-scale, immersive installation works including the curation and production of the interdisciplinary series “Invocation” alongside artists from radically divergent practices and histories.
Drew has presented this work at The Stone, Roulette Intermedium, Firehouse 12, and Pioneer Works among others. Current projects include ‘Carried in Bone’ a tape-generated graphic score and installation, and a new solo work entitled ‘blank body’ released via Infrequent Seams.
Blank Body is an intermedia audiovisual work by Drew Wesely. The material drawn from improvisations on prepared guitar and other objects, Blank Body explores the possibilities the recorded medium affords such as physically impossible musical transitions and binaural spatialization, yet is imbued with the vitality of a live performance. The accompanying vellum art book provides a visual analog as photographs, shapes, and textures emerge from and return to non-existence as the semi-transparent pages are turned like individual frames of a film.
Shimmering harmonics, string noise, and feedback dance in hypnotic counterpoint immersing the listener in a vivid sonic environment. Blank Body examines fundamental assumptions of the guitar as a sound making object. Playing the guitar with a cello bow and other objects as well as including the pickup and amplification systems as integral parts of the instrument itself opened up a rich potential for polyphony, percussive textural relationships, and a music more centered around timbre and touch emerged. This gave a more immersive feeling to the music, like a series of sonic spaces that are inhabited by the listener rather than listened to.
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Musician and mixed media artist Christa Ebert performs as Uno Lady, a one-woman choir, and composes songs with her voice, nature sounds, and electronic tools. She constructs sonic worlds with dream-like vocal layers and looping ethereal tones. Also as a video artist, she creates nature-inspired stop-motion music videos to accompany her compositions. Christa has recorded and produced nine releases. Her unique talent has been acknowledged with various awards, including residencies and fellowships with Chulitna Lodge in Alaska, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Foundation House, SPACE’s Urgent Art Fund, Chateau Orquevaux, Creative Workforce Fellow, Akron Soul Train, and Panza Foundation.