SADIE GREYDUCK
PETRA ZÉLIE
Myles Boisen + JOEL DAVEL + AMBER LAMPRECHT
PETRA ZÉLIE'S musical approach combines composition and improvisation, driven by emotional responses, the sonic environment, and queer temporality. She filters feelings and concepts through programming synths and granular modules. This method explores deconstruction and reconfiguration of sound, particularly through granular synthesis, which alters meaning by fragmenting and reassembling sound samples, aligning with ideas of recycling and challenging traditional notions of creation. Her work extends to public spaces as "micro-resistance," involving sonic interventions and field recordings, as she explores ideas of “being” and “becoming” through the unconventional mixing of queer, noise, and glitch aesthetics.
SADIE GREYDUCK - Col Reliquia: with the relic/with what has been left behind. The double bass is performed with a bison jaw, she wears a mask of shattered bottles and faceted gems. “Human misery would be intolerable if it were not diluted in time. We have to prevent it from being diluted in order that it should be intolerable.” “without the protection of space, or time, and of matter, we should be evaporated like water in the sun.” (Simone Weil) Time is diluted by a tape loop of dripping water. If misery becomes intolerable will we release, will we act? This performance is a cauldron, a weighted blanket, and an attempted evaporation.
Saide is a glass sculptor whose work blurs boundaries between static object and choreography. She works with performance ensembles The Sunshine Bores, Pure Filth Society and recently designed costumes and sound in Urban Birds: The Plasticene produced by Synchromy Music, directed by Ashton S. Phillips.
In the final installment of WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES improv project this month, another group of talented local musicians from different circles within the wider contemporary music community has been formed to perform a set of free improvisations.
Myles Boisen (guitar), JOEL DAVEL (percussion), and AMBER LAMPRECHT (English horn) join series curator
Matt Ingalls (clarinet). This performance is part of what we hope will be a continuous series of exciting collaborations, showcasing the diverse and vibrant Bay Area contemporary music scene.