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ZERO COHESION FEST: Amirtha Kidambi and Matteo Liberatore / Bryce Eiman / nil. / NVS Trio / Stander

Saturday May 14 * 7pm sharp * MASKS, VAX REQUIRED * TICKETS

Zero Cohesion Fest
Amirtha Kidambi and Matteo Liberatore
Bryce Eiman
nil.
NVS Trio
Stander

Amirtha Kidambi and Matteo Liberatore’s duo of voice and guitar creates improvised aural landscapes that are glacial and highly evocative, unfurling through dynamic gestures that are at once spacious and restrained. Juxtaposed against the frenetic pace characteristic of the New York improv scene, the pair applies the compositional aesthetics of Feldman or Oliveros to a free environment. The project is set apart from Kidambi’s work with Lea Bertucci, Mary Halvorson or Elder Ones and Liberatore’s collaborations with musicians including Elliott Sharp, Mark Kelley and Catherine Sikora. Each piece explores the unique possibility space created by the union of voice and guitar, delving deep into specific permutations including registral extremes, detuning and quiet mouth sounds. After a prolonged period of isolation, the duo emerged to record and play together for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The music is nuanced, patiently developing as the subtleties of gradual seasonal change or the awareness of sound in meditation. Like shifting color gradients and patterns on a canvas of Agnes Martin, timbral shading and repetition form large scale impressions. Neutral Love investigates an emotional inner world, taking its name from The Passion of G.H. by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, a narrative monologue of a woman’s existential spiral. While Kidambi and Liberatore come from radically different backgrounds, they draw from universal sonic signifiers, like the ringing of the bell at a Hindu temple threshold or the echo of church bells across the piazza of a small Italian town, invocations to prayer and reflection. The duo’s interactions simmer beneath an anti-climax, begging the listener to observe one’s surroundings, turn inward, and confront the self.
aeneutrallove.bandcamp.com/album/neutral-love

A longtime fixture on the North Carolina noise circuit, Bryce Eiman creates good old-fashioned noise and grizzled plunderphonics.
fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/remedies-against-discontents
bceiman.bandcamp.com/

nil. (former members of Chester Hawkins)
intangiblearts.bandcamp.com/

NVS Trio is Daniel Barbiero: double bass, prepared double bass, etc; Gary Rouzer: cello, objects, etc; Jeff Surak: The Impaler. Non-idiomatic improvisation informed by 20th/21st c. classical compositions.
zeromoon.bandcamp.com/album/doubled-up-and-beautiful

Stander is a 3-piece heavy band from Chicago, IL. Their compositions unfurl beyond the more rigid confines of genre and subvert tropes with surprising shifts in phrasing, meter, and tone. Dramatic peaks give way to cavernous space before reigniting into serrated tendrils of feedback and chaotic surge. Guitarist Mike Boyd, bassist Derek Shlepr, and drummer Stephen Waller invoke and infuse their curiosity and an abundance of stylistic touchstones into idiosyncratic pieces tempered by keen, deliberate musicianship. Vulnerable is an unflinching reflection on emotional volatility and fragility, from existential dread to stagnance, incalculable grief to unbridled bliss.
stander.bandcamp.com/album/vulnerable

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COVID Policy

Masks required.

In order to attend this event at Rhizome, we require proof of full vaccination for all audience, staff, and performers.

Accepted forms of proof include:

1. A physical vaccination card that matches the patron's photo ID.

2. A photo of a vaccination card that matches the patron's photo ID.

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