In Situ: Salute Flying w/Yuan Liu & Kalmia Traver
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Saturday, April 30th 11pm
11-11:30
Screening of Yuan’s “Salute Flying”, a video she made for composer Jessica Pavone. The screening will be followed by a solo viola performance by Jessica.
11:30-12
Yuan will show an official music video that she made for Kalmia Traver, the lead vocalist of Rubblebucket. The video will be followed by Kalmia’s solo work Kalbells, performed live as a duo with drummer Ian Chang (Sonlux).
Yuan Liu
Yuan Liu is a filmmaker, technology and art researcher and curator. She has been a resident researcher and artist at Waag Society in Amsterdam and Museum of Human Achievement in Austin Texas. She has also been the official video journalist for The Last Weekend, The Internet Week NYC and Eyebeam Art and Technology. Her experimental cinema and video installations are known to feature improvised musicians and composers based in Brooklyn. She make these videos inside of an old schoolhouse where she lives of which she incorporates molecular bio techniques as video effects. Yuan is interested in magnifying surrealism in visual art in a free form. Each piece is a mathematical contemplation on the social cache behind the individuation process of a quixotic way of life.
Jessica Pavone
Jessica Pavone (composer, viola, violin, el.bass) has performed in countless improvisation, avant jazz, experimental, folk, soul, and chamber ensembles since moving to NYC in 2000. She currently plays with Normal Love, in a duo with guitarist Mary Halvorson, with Anthony Braxton’s ensembles and as a solo violist. As a composer, The Wire magazine praised her “ability to transform a naked tonal gesture into something special,” and The New York Times described her music as “distinct and beguiling…its core is steely, and its execution clear.”
Kalmia Traver
Kalbells is the solo work of Kalmia Traver, lead singer of Rubblebucket. The debut collection is 10 cosmic ardent bedroom pop songs written in her native Vermont in the dead winter and inspired by the personal and direct experience of divine, loss, impermanence and dream. Performed live as a duo with drummer Ian Chang.
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