Sat 9/7 @ 8-9PM
The Cleveland Uncommon Sounds Project aka CUSP, which presents avant-garde, experimental concerts, has announced a series of fall concerts, which kicks off Saturday September 7 at Calicchia Gallery Studio (formerly Convivium 33) in AsiaTown.
For its opener, it’s presenting a pair of Chicago-based artists, Paige Naylor and Haruhi Kobayashi, and one Clevelander, Naomi Columna. Naylor and Kobayashi really stretch the boundaries of “experimental.” Naylor, a multimedia artist and musician, also describes herself as a “Deep Listener and curator working within the realms of sound, light, performance, multichannel sound installation, handmade electronics, acoustic ecology, listening practices and poetry.” She says she “constructs environments that are vulnerable, direct and interpersonal in order to create new social and emotional realities for others through the breakdown of language, time, and perception.”
Haruhi Kobayashi is also a multimedia artist as well as a sound designer and engineer. Her work is based on electronic manipulations of her voice “to lose sight of the identity on the way,” with occasional use of the bass to complete her lower monophonic range.
Naomi Columna has degrees in traditional western music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music but has found her way toward more boundary-breaking music, describing her work as a “shape-shifting practice, balancing performance, audio/video work and installation art, resulting in a varied portfolio of projects,” with a focus on commissioning and creating new work.
It’s a $15 suggested donation, but CUSP always emphasizes that no one will be turned away for lack of money.
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