Sxip Shirey’s Hour of Charm
Monday, October 3rd @ 8pm
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About the Show
Sxip’s Hour of Charm (N.S. #2) “Signals and Latency”
A night of absurdly beautiful sounds inspired by thoughts of Amelia Earhart and David Bowie.
Featuring:
Featuring:
American rapper, singer, and spoken work artist Dessa
A glass harmonica and glass armonica duet between Cinder Talk aka Jonny Rogers and Jake Schlaerth.
Todd Reynolds with his ever evolving digital fiddle which now includes a modular synth from the analog world
The beautiful songs and composition of Aaron Roche with string quartet.
Sxip Shirey will present a new composition “Amelia Earhart Found” which features morse code poetry snuck into pizzicato strings and the sound of his grandfather’s morse code key. This performance features Basil Twist with Stickman and the next evolution of “Latency” wtih dancer Coco Karol and violinist Rima Fand featuring a series of cell phones calling each other with speakers on to create latency loops.
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Food and drink will be available
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