Re:Sound Festival Concert II - Maya Nguyen // Elliott Sharp (solo and group collaboration)

Name: Re:Sound Festival Concert II - Maya Nguyen // Elliott Sharp (solo and group collaboration)
Start: 2024-05-18T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Convivium 33

Schedule

Sat May 18 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Convivium 33 | Cleveland, OH

Re:Sound 2024 Concert II
Saturday, May 18
Convivium 33 Gallery, 1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:00, Music 7:30PM
$20-30 sliding scale for each concert event
Or pay what you can
Re:Sound is CUSP's annual “new” and experimental music festival that brings together and showcases pioneers in the arts with diverse programming at venues throughout Cleveland. By connecting local and visiting performers, Re:Sound propels innovation and elevates contemporary artistry in Northeast Ohio.

Concert II features:
Maya Nguyen
Elliott Sharp

Maya Nguyen
Maya Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist who gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily encounters into open-ended compositions. Her practice engages power relations inherent in human interaction and the environments that facilitate these interactions, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial histories, migratory routes, and the relating between the human and the natural world. MN holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from University of Chicago and an M.F.A in Sound from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with professional engagements at Poetry Foundation and Asymptote Journal.
Nguyen presents "I Hear You Can Make A Helicopter Sound With A Flower." This work manoeuvres conventions of sound-making to explore the political considerations of sound, ideologies of sound design, and diasporic listening. I hear you can make a helicopter sound with a flower. I hear you can make nature sound fake. I hear you can make words sound meaningful. I hear you can make meaning sound atmospheric. I hear you can make sound sound again.

Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and author who leads the projects Orchestra Carbon, SysOrk, Tectonics and Terraplane. His compositional strategies have encompassed the use of fractal geometry, chaos theory, algorithms, genetic metaphors, and new techniques for graphic notation to yield work that catalyzes a synesthetic approach to musicmaking as well as functioning as retinal art. In 2015, Sharp was awarded both the Berlin Prize and the Jahrespreis from der Deutscher Schallplatten Kritiks. In 2014 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship from the Center for Transformative Media. He has been featured in the Darmstadt and Huddersfield festivals, New Music Stockholm, Au Printemps-Paris, Hessischer Rundfunk Klangbiennale, and the Venice Biennale. His book IrRational Music, a mix of memoir, cultural discussion, and music theory was published in 2019. He is the subject of the documentary Doing The Don't and has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered.
Sharp will perform two sets and facilitate a workshop at 2:30 PM on Saturday, May 18 at Convivium 33 Gallery
WORKSHOP
CURRENT STRATEGIES FOR SOUND AND PERFORMANCE
A participatory overview, discussion, and lab in new conceptual approaches to time-based sound art including graphic notation, algorithmic instruction sets, non-musical models, and free improvisation. Detailed discussions of these topics will take place in an open environment that welcomes questions and demonstrations. The participants will learn a variety of techniques for realtime sonic interaction and take part in various exercises to develop these techniques. These techniques will be performed as a collaborative performance with Sharp during the evening concert.
SOLO PERFORMANCE
Sharp will perform a longform composition, The Hidden Variable, for 8-string guitarbass and electronics. Improvisation is an important component of the realization of this work as is the use of extended techniques and looping - all elements that Sharp has pioneered and developed since the early 1970s.
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.uncommonsoundcle.com/resound-2024