Michelle Lou / Stefan Maier + 100,000,000 Unread Messages
Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$17 / free or discounted for members
Michelle Lou and Stefan Maier, longtime friends working the field of electroacoustic performance and composition, perform a multichannel duo project at The Lab. Fusing Lou's multichannel computer synthesis with Maier's work on modular synthesis, the duo explores shifting clouds of spectral densities, angular textures, throbbing drones and pintillistic interjections. Their live recording, titled simply "Live at UCSD," was released on Dinzu Artifacts in 2024.
Approximately 100,000,000 Unread Messages is the duo of Connor Tomaka and Isabelle Waldner Kalb, investigating the tactility at the edges of electroacoustic instrumentation through compositions for guitar and computer. Their collaboration reproduces the music of the way people communicate today, unfolding fugues from countless minute inputs towards an endless implosive metastasis. Distinct in approach yet parallel in palette, together they produce a disjunctive synthesis, every touch updated and restated into circulation without destination.