NonSeq: M. Geddes Gengras + Cindy Reichel

For the last twenty years, Upstate New York-based composer M. Geddes Gengras has created worlds inside of machines , bending electronics into human shapes and working in spaces between ambient, improvisation, and experimental music to build works with deep feeling. He has released music with Hausu Mountain, Leaving Records/Stones Throw, and RVNG International, and collaborated onstage and in the studio with Sun Araw, The Congos, Greg Fox, Akron/Family, and Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead, among many others. Since 2022, Gengras has become enamored with antiquated MIDI playback devices, and will be presenting new works that blend this obsession with his trademark sonic atmospheres. Examples of recent works in that lane can be heard here and here.

Cindy Reichel is a Seattle-based electronic musician and music educator. Specializing in an array of electronic genres ranging from techno to ambient and IDM, Cindy fuses lush melodic textures with intricately woven percussive layers that take the listener on a spiritual journey through rhythm and melody. Cindy is also a certified sound healer and is fascinated by the therapeutic potential of sound and vibration. She holds regular synth sound baths in the Seattle area, combining traditional sound healing techniques and instruments with synthesized drones and atmospheric textures. Beyond the stage, Cindy enjoys teaching electronic music production workshops and classes. She is also an accomplished computational research scientist and holds a PhD in genetics from the University of Washington. In this performance, Cindy will explore the shadowed edge of ambience, weaving haunting drones, ghostly harmonics, and cinematic textures into an enveloping soundscape. With each note drifting and evolving like light over black water, the audience will be pulled into a world both unsettling and achingly beautiful.

Live visuals by Lightgazer.

Curated by Chloe Harris for Nonsequitur‘s NonSeq series.

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