Stephanie Barber: You Light Up My Life

Working now for three decades, prolific filmmaker and language artist Stephanie Barber has developed a vastly intricate body of work—encompassing film, video, performance, poetry and music—of a nearly unprecedented scope and range. Tending toward the miniature, Barber’s disciplined, hermetic and haiku-like work fuses freeform formalism with inventive explorations of language, narrativity and presence, pleasurably perplexing viewer/participants with conundra of creative wordplay and digressive philosophy while probing the porous boundaries between performativity, sincerity, intellect and emotional affect.
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Caroline Davis and Wendy Eisenberg + Bill Orcutt

Two formidable solo artists and bandleaders in their own right, saxophonist Caroline Davis and guitarist Wendy Eisenberg wrote their new duo album Accept When (Astral Spirits) between 2022 and 2023, after a long, beautiful period improvising together intimately in the safety of a friend’s practice space. Bill Orcutt, local legend reimagining blues guitar along the fissured landscape of American Primitivism, shares the bill.
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Will Guthrie + Monopiece w/ Jaap Blonk

Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He plays solo using different combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics, and leads the contemporary hybrid percussion / gamelan group ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH. His music has been released on labels such as Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, Gaffer Records, Hasana Editions, 23five, iDEAL and his own label Antboy Music.

Guthrie first made a name for himself within the Australian jazz scene, establishing himself at a young age as a major presence by winning the Wangaratta National Jazz Awards for drums in 1997 and going on to perform with many of Australia’s most celebrated jazz musicians such as Mark Simmonds, Julien Wilson and Ren Walters. In the new millennium, his work took a long detour away from the drum kit through junk electronics, extreme amplification and electro-acoustic techniques, documented on a series of solo and collaborative recordings from these years.

The improvising trio Monopiece lists its instrumentation as guitar, percussion, and electronics, but electronics describes far more than one third of its texture, since both guitar and percussion are amplified and electronically processed. On this release they are joined by the Dutch vocal artist Jaap Blonk in recording spontaneously generated music, edited and subtly processed to reflect the communal nature of its creation without interrupting the strong, improvised narratives of each piece.
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Croatian Amor (Co-Presented by HydeFM)

Our neighboring internet radio station HydeFM co-presents Croatian Amor, the solo alias of Loke Rahbek recording on Copenhagen-based label Posh Isolation. Having performed at Berlin Atonal, Rewire, Mutek Mexico, Berghain, and many others, Croatian Amor brings a live ambient electronic set to The Lab. HydeFM DJs and artists open the evening.
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Natacha Diels + Steph Richards + Kyle Bruckmann

Natacha Diels performs her audiovisual composition Somewhere Beautiful, a journey into a strange landscape occupied by sounds and image that are at once familiar and unknown, reassuring and unsettling. Steph Richards’s solo project draws on her avant-jazz ensemble work, where trumpet is augmented by sensory electronics as on her latest release POWER VIBE (Northern Spy). Oakland composer Kyle Bruckmann performs his deconstructed and meticulously amplified oboe set first created for a pandemic livestream.
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