Monday 26 August 2019, 7.30pm
Jessika Kenney (vocalist) and Eyvind Kang (violist) have established themselves as powerful voices working at a unique intersection of contemporary composition, esoteric improvisation, and traditional musical forms. Either individually or as a pair, they have worked in contexts ranging from performances of Persian radif-based music and spiritual jazz, to collaborations with Korean percussion, orchestra, and choir, but their work together as a duo, on The Face of the Earth (2012) and Aestuarium (2011), most clearly represents the central concerns of their diverse practices: a music of the inner life of sound, demanding ritualistic focus and promising heightened sensations.
https://ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com/album/the-face-of-the-earth
Opening the night, Billy Steiger will present part of an ongoing sculpture series.
Billy Steiger is an artist working across performance, recording, drawing, and printmaking. This work often takes systems of reproduction, transmission and mediation as both material and subject.
Active/upcoming solo projects include:
- a proposed (re)history of technology, using the vibrating string as framing mechanism.
- an album of modified pipe organ recordings, to be released by OtoRoku in 2027.
- an ongoing investigation into audio compression algorithms and the artefacts and loss inherent to digital/analogue boundary states.
Active group projects include:
- O Yama O (w/ Keiko Yamamoto, Rie Nakajima, Marie Roux)
- X-Ray Hex Tet (w/ Paul Abbott, Edward George, Crystabel Riley, Pat Thomas, Seymour Wright)
- Portraits (w/ Daniel Blumberg, Seymour Wright)
Completed(?) solo projects include:
- composing and recording the score for Stacy Martin's short film Amaretti
- Box (for EKM) for piano and string quartet, premiered by Apartment House in 2024
- Loud Object, a 2023 violin record.
https://billysteiger.bandcamp.com/
