The return of the Return the Gift curated series (Series 3) continues with the second installment of four great shows, with three great performing artists featuring Henna Chou, matt robidoux, and
Aine Nakamura.
Doors: 7:30/ Show: 8:00 PM
Donation: $10-25
Henna Chou is a sound artist whose work explores the confluence of environmental listening, experimental practice, and socio-political inquiry. Drawing from the textures and rhythms of the natural and industrial world, their work engages with sound as both material and message - exploring issues of ecology, displacement, and collective memory.
matt robidoux (they/them) is a San Francisco based composer, improviser, and educator interested in the convergence of movement and sound as it relates to free improvisation and accessibility. Their primary instrument is the “corn synth” — (Kinetically Operated Randomness Network) a modular system that interprets physical input from two “ears of corn” sculptures cast in aluminum.
Aine Nakamura is a performer of voice, body and stories, and artist. She focuses on the sensibility and sensitivity in listening to hidden stories and performs using sung and spoken voice and movement across multiple cultural/transcultural sites. She seeks the potentialities of an injured voice and on the listening and sensing bodies. She writes words, some of which become scores, and considers shapes as if her throat itself is a membrane and body or inner is a changing shape or phenomenon among worldly phenomena in relations. Through her practice, while aiming to be a vessel, she understands about herself and pursues meanings of lines, seeing, and connecting. Engaging with sites, memory, and transborder soul work, she works in sounding/voicing, movement, storytelling/poetry, object-making/installation, and site-specific composition/improvisation.
Cost: $10-25