Tuesday April 26 * 7pm * MASKS, VAX REQUIRED * TICKETS
Alma Laprida (1985, San Miguel, Argentina). After living and working in Buenos Aires for ten years, she's based in Maryland, USA, since 2021.
Alma 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.
She played and performed at all major museums in Buenos Aires. She made sound installations at Teatro Verdi (La Boca, Buenos Aires), the art gallery Valenzuela Kremmer (Bogotá, Colombia) and CasaPlan for Festival Tsonami (Valparaíso, Chile). She was a guest artist at the International Festival of Experimental Music of Sao Paulo, Brazil (FIME, 2015) and made a residency at GIS Studio of Audition Records (Mexico City, 2016).
She released a solo album (Audition Records) and several pieces in compilations in labels such as Adaptador Records, Ratordog, Sisters Triangla, Isla Visión, También Dormimos, Carbono Proyecto Records and Sub Rosa.
In Buenos Aires, she created the series of concerts Ciclo Hertz and a project for collaborations between visual and sound artists named Estrépito y contemplación. She worked as a freelancecurator for independent projects. She was Curator-In-Chief at the Centro de Arte Sonoro, which depends on the Ministry of Culture (Argentina). almalaprida.wordpress.com
Jorge Bañales
An electric bass player for various bands in the DC area and who has toured major East Coast cities as well as abroad, Jorge E. Bañales explores the stochastic and generative nature of modular synthesizers via noise, drones, loops, randomness and repetition. He is interested in art made by systems, mechanisms, networks, principles or procedures. As an avid photographer, he is inspired by the New Topographics movement and psychogeography, and his work has been exhibited in galleries and has been featured in the DCist and the Washington City Paper. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Jorge E. Bañales has lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Caracas, Venezuela currently lives and works in the Washington, DC area. In 2021 he obtained his MFA in Photography from George Mason University.. jorgebanales.com
TL0741
Pat Gillis (b. 1965, USA) began performing as TL0741 in January 2005, presenting structured improvisations for analogue modular synthesizer and effects combined with pre-recorded material. Drones, unstable automata and inharmonic gestures are harvested from the electrons to create a transient universe of unreliable premonitions and fragile possibilities. www.tl0741.com/