For the May installment of the Meridian Composers in Performance series we are excited to present
Kanoko Nishi-Smith and Pedro Lopes!
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA
$5 - $10
Kanoko Nishi-SmithKanoko Nishi-Smith is a performer currently based in SF/Bay Area. Though classically trained on piano, receiving a BA in Classical Music Performance from Mills College, her recent interest has primarily been in performing 20th century and contemporary musical compositions for piano as well as for koto (Japanese 13-string zither), and free-improvisation in various different contexts, with musicians, as well as dancers, poets, and visual artists.
https://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/376/kanoko-nishi-smith
Pedro Lopes
Pedro Lopes is a turntablist, computer scientist & hardware t(h)inker based out of Berlin. Lopes plays turntables like they are full-fledged instruments, which means they can be bowed, percussed, scratched, subversed & hacked. He makes his own needles and records using circuit-bending and acrylic cutting. Lopes engages in collaboration with visual artists, performance & improvisors. He has played in venues such as Transmediale, Serralves Foundation, Casa da Música, OutFest, Rescaldo, Metasonic & Future Places and collaborated with many artists: Carlos Zíngaro, André Gonçalves, Gabriel Ferrandini, Pedro Sousa, Miguel Sá, Hernâni Faustino, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Per Gärdin, Carlos Santos, Manuela São Simão and in ensembles conducted by William Winnant (Zorn’s Cobra), Reinhold Friedl & Ernesto Rodrigues.
http://plopesmusic.org/