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Transparent Productions presents some local DC and Baltimore based musicians: the duo od Matthew Waterman and Felipe Verdejo with guest Koray Ergunay, and Qiujiang Levi Lu.
MATTHEW WATERMAN and FELIPE VERDEJO are Local Adult Males. They use trombone and effects pedals to create improvisational soundscapes, textures, and musical happenings. They joined forces with KORAY ERGUNAY on electric bass to scale new and bolder heights.
Matthew is a trombonist and composer from Bloomington, Indiana. With a foundation in jazz, Matthew’s music draws on influences from classical, rock, Afro-Cuban, and other styles
of music. After studying composition in Norway, Matthew relocated to Washington, D.C. in 2022. He is a member of Finding Frances, which released its debut record For Flowers Yet to Bloom in August 2023.
Felipe is a musician from Santiago, Chile and New York. Felipe has a background in classical voice and audio engineering, and attempts to combine his love of music with his love of technology. Felipe plays bass in Dr. Horsedoctor and Arid Bloom. Through the use of effects pedals, he explores the expansive potentialities for audio manipulation and textural sculpting.
Koray Ergunay is an electric bass player and composer from Ankara, Turkey. A music enthusiast with diverse interests and playing styles, Koray released several solo and collaborative works, ranging from progressive rock to free improvisations.
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QIUJIANG LEVI LU is a Chinese improviser, experimental vocalist, composer, and creative technologist who perform with custom-built electronic instruments and write intermedia pieces that explore human relationships and the phenomenology of sound. Besides their own works, Lu is half of the experimental electroacoustic duo, Warp Duo.
Lu’s performance and compositions have been featured at Festivals, Conferences, and Venues such as the HighZero Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, IRCAM Forum, SEAMUS conference, NIME conference, NowNet Arts conference, DiMenna Center, Spencer Museum of Art, Oberlin MMG, Redroom, and Rhizome DC.
Lu is a lecturer at University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Music degree in Computer Music from Peabody Institute and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Stony Brook University.