flyer by Steve Loya @sloya72
Saturday September 11 * 8pm Eastern * online at ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts
Alma Laprida was born in 1985 in San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She composes and plays pieces for trumpet marine, synthesizers, lyre and other non conventional instruments and objects such as megaphones, nylon bags, home appliances and toys. She works with sound using an intimate, contemporary language and explores the territories among composition, improvisation, performance and installation.
Constanza Castagnet: I am an Argentinean artist currently living in Amsterdam who works with sound, writing, performance, and occasionally videos. I am interested in the voice as an instrument of resistance over its function to transmit and communicate meaning. Non-verbal and unclear forms of expression can spark the construction, imagination, or speculation of unusual settings questioning the limits of sense. With a strong self-taught impulse, I was trained in music theory and vocal techniques as well as studying at Meredith Monk Foundation (NY, 2016), UNTREF (C.A.B.A, 2017), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (C.A.B.A, 2019), and Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam, 2021). My work has also been exhibited in Buenos Aires and Japan (2016 - Shibaura House Tokyo), South Korea (2017 - GCC Festival, Gyeonggi) Peru (2018 - Buffet de Ruidos, Lima). At the same time, I have been giving workshops around sound and the use of extended vocal techniques. In 2021 I started among a group of colleagues, Sssssound, an inter-curricular platform supported by Sandberg Institute, that fosters experimental and border-crossing ways of making and thinking with sound. From 2012 till 2018 I co-directed Labor, a bilingual printed publication focused on work processes.
The sounds made by Mx. Zoe! Eyerolls have been described as "super adventurous – you just may end up down some paths that aren’t quite as comfortable as you’d hope" (Tabs Out) and "either an excellent set of art slices or an annoying noise that demands you turn it off" (THE ORGAN). They can't both be wrong!
petra: Kristina Warren is a maker, arts technologist, and educator. She writes and performs acoustic and electronic sound using instruments she and others made. Her first solo album, filament (2019, released as petra), is “precise and unpredictable, making repeat listens irresistible” (Marc Masters), while her bespoke wearable electronic instrument Exo.Rosie sees her rolling around on the floor. Warren presents work locally in Providence, Rhode Island, nationally, and internationally. Recently: the Chamber Music Conference of the East [US], the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition [US], Espace des arts sans frontières [FR], ICMC [GR, NL], Interfaces [CY], ISSTA [IE], Mise-En Music Festival [US], Movement and Computing Conference [US], NIME [US], NYCEMF [US], PVD Loop Fest [US], Sound and Music Computing conference [CY], Spektrum [DE], and TENOR [CA, ES]. Warren's music has been performed by ensembles such as Chartreuse, Dither, Ekmeles, JACK Quartet, loadbang, Meehan / Perkins Duo, So Percussion, and Yarn/Wire. She has been selected as a PEO Scholar Award recipient (2016), an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2016), and a finalist in the American Composers Forum National Composition Contest (2014). She has been teaching electronic music and multimedia as Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University since earning her PhD in Composition & Computer Technologies in 2017 from the University of Virginia.
Louder Voice Snare, Suzanne Doogan's Ehse debut and her first solo tape release, is a collection of 22 songs, poems, and monologues that she has performed in Baltimore and on tours since 2015. Doogan uses simple melodies, percussion, and gentle tape manipulation to strip and refill words with new, old, and weird meaning around the subject of young femininity. Her voice slips between subjectivities guilelessly, like water against a slick rock.