MATTEAH BAIM

Matteah Baim was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When she was 13, she purchased her first guitar and first record from a basement pawn shop. At the age of 17, Baim moved to California to study painting and drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduating, she moved to New York City, where she met Sierra Casady. The duo formed the self described "soft-metal band" Metallic Falcons. Their 2006 debut, Desert Doughnuts, was released by Touch and Go Records. Baim went on to record her first solo record, Death of the Sun, in 2007 for Dicristina/ Revolver USA. Laughing Boy, her second album, followed soon after in 2009.

Tours have taken Baim all over the world to such festivals as ATP UK, Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit at the Shoreline Amphitheater, and the upcoming 2012 Meltdown Festival. She has also performed in conjunction with Antony and the Johnsons' U.S. tour of The Crying Light and their Another World Installation-Performance at MoMA's historic Clock Tower Gallery in New York. Baim went onto perform as part of events for Vashti Bunyan's film release, From Here to Before, as well as with Jim Jarmusch, Lower Dens, Liturgy, Lucky Dragons, Soft Circle, High Places, Devendra Banhart and Lichens. Both her music and visual work have been featured in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Gavin Brown Enterprises, James Cohan Gallery, White Columns, Sara Meltzer Gallery/ Projects, The Armory Show 2010, and The Dispatch Gallery. She lives and works in New York City.

"Performs the trick of making quietness speak volumes"- The Guardian

"Matteah Baim, formerly of the mysterious soft-metal outfit Metallic Falcons, makes austere music that sounds almost angelic"- Interview Magazine

"Matteah Baim’s sound world is monumental” - Mojo



HYELIM KIM

Taegŭm performer, composer and researcher, Hyelim Kim, is opening new possibilities for Korean music by using a traditional Korean instrument, the taegŭm, as a tool to promote exchange with a wide-variety of musical cultures. She is currently a Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology at SOAS within the University of London, and is conducting research on the globalization of Korean music. Tonight she will present a set of Korean Sanjo music.

Hyelim Kim website