Friday March 27th Marina Carvalho and Zach Hart from Berlin will stop here for a show with Ben Bennett, and Tether, with readings by two local poets Myene Yanu and Emily K.
BIOS
Lauren Pakradooni (Tether) is an interdisciplinary artist who creates visual art and music that uses pattern and interference to reflect slippages between the built and natural worlds. Pakradooni has been making music under the monikers Tether, Pak, and her own name. Her sound is structured by cassette tape loops that carry fragments of recorded sound into assemblages of wavering structures. Pakradooni layers and manipulates loops to build patterns that carve out specific song formation through the rhythm of each loop’s physical revolution. Her sound takes on space through density and sparseness that either reveal or bury the process of making.
Pakradooni will perform live tape manipulation on a suite of cassette tape recorders using handmade cassette tape loops with field, analog, and digital sources.
Ben Bennett (b. 1984 Columbus, Ohio) is a percussionist who makes timbrally and formally diverse music from simplified instruments in the membranophone and idiophone families. Coming from an early background in jazz, in the 2000’s he began reducing the drumset to its constituent elements, and focusing on drawing out idiosyncratic sounds from limited means. Reducing sonic material to nothing led to the durational YouTube series Sitting and Smiling (2014-ongoing), and applying iterative process to ordinary language led to Walking and Talking (2017-ongoing). His latest work, Music for Idiophones, deals with dynamic stick-slip behaviour of various flexible materials. He has toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe and performed in several international festivals as a soloist and in improvising ensembles. His recent collaborators include Pascal Battus, Kieran Daly, Axel Dörner, Philipp Eden, Jonas Engel, Bryan Eubanks, Sandy Ewen, Carlos Hidalgo, Beat Keller, Greg Kelley, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Carina Khorkhordina, Alexander Markvart, Karen Ng, Chris Pitsiokos, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guillherme Rodrigues, Asger Thomsen, Ute Wasserman, Jacob Wick, Nate Wooley, and Jack Wright.
Mariana Carvalho and Zach Hart are a Berlin based duo working in between experimental music, noise, radio and sound art.
They will present a new set together, combining binaural mics, transducers, glass, modular synthesizer and a tape deck.
Myene Yanu is a poet from Oakland, CA living in Philadelphia, PA. Her work can be found in Beautiful Days Press’s Works & Days Vol.2, Peel Lit Vol.2, and Peace Isn’t Luck.IG:@myene.tsty
Emily K. is the author of Baby I'm Away at the maze and laughterhouse.
