Sunday May 26 * 7pm * $15-20 * TICKETS
FULL FESTIVAL PASS: $100 (50% of sales benefit Rhizome DC)
QUEERING SOUND 2024 performances are scheduled for Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May evenings (7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.) and 'all-day' (2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. blocks) on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May. Festival pass purchases directly benefit Rhizome DC and afford you advanced access to all QU24 performances, saving 13% over purchasing individual full-priced tickets for all dates.
Té, qUEERING MUZAK
Was MUZAK the first “Sound Healing” of the Industrial Age? What is the connection between Muzak and Noise Music? This and more when I present my radical endorsement of “Beautiful Music” along with my own notably ignorable compositions at QUEERING SOUND. “qUEERING MUZAK” is a mellow manifesto, and EZ on the ear!
https://temakesnoise.bandcamp.com/
Sad Veiled Bride
Ukelele Weltschmerz; lo-fi + beat-heavy with a sprinkle of 80’s melancholia.
https://www.sadveiledbri.de/
Switched on Sousa
Electronic marches + questionable facial hair.
https://beaufinley.bandcamp.com
https://fuzzypanda.bandcamp.com/music
Fibbing
Appearing in rare form as a solo act is Fibbing, the Baltimore-based project helmed by Goucher College student Emma Chase. Both a talented jazz pianist and pop songwriter, Chase’s propulsive ballads bring to mind both the grandiosity of 70s pop-rock and the bleak attitudes of the 90s. In 2023, Fibbing released their self-titled EP, a diverse collection of piano rock tracks jam-packed with unforgettable hooks that accentuate the stinging angst in Chase’s lyrics. Fibbing is hard at work on their debut album, a collection of songs that see Chase looking even deeper inwards, pulling from herself a roiling vulnerability that guides her tragic songwriting. (Claire Brown)
https://fibbing.bandcamp.com
Depression Cherry
Shoegazer + ambient soundscape loops from Markus Meier + Kate Muser (All Her Muses).
Jan Swinburne, video
The Stratification of Memory Reconciles Disquiet (06:31/2024)
Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art in two streams: Gallery oriented exhibitions, and time-based experimental forms. Her thematic focus revolves around words, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds.
https://www.janswinburne.com/
Kelli Frances Corrado (Chicago)
Kelli Frances Corrado (she/her) is a singer, songwriter, wanderer and a witch, a quilt of memories and mysticism. Growing up in Chicago, she would sneak out during school nights to see shows and spend Sundays learning prayer rituals taught by her Czech grandmother. This set a unique musical foundation, studying operatic voice, string arranging, poetry and producing. Giving voice to her spiritual beliefs, she has lived many lives before putting her heart into song: wanderer, student, social worker, tap dancer and teacher. Living in the Black Forest, London and by the sea. These patches of experience bring together a musical broth of magical realism and urban life ripe of lucid dreams and superstition. Using weird and wonderful places to record; a seaplane port, a boat house, a field of swans, a tunnel with sixteen second natural delay and an old school from the 1900's. Kelli’s music has been featured in The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, NPR’s Radio One, Astral Noize and more. She is a member of the Female Pressure network. Having tracks featured on compilations for Shoutyourabortion and Women of Noise For Palestine. Her newest release Her Name is Swamp a three-song EP is available now.
https://www.kellifrancescorrado.com/
https://kellifrancescorrado1.bandcamp.com
QUEERING SOUND is a volunteer-driven, multifaceted arts festival of LGBTQIA+ artists/allies held annually in Washington DC and features visual art, spoken word, video/new media, and a wide variety of musical styles. Since 1999, QUEERING SOUND has presented over one hundred local, national, and international artists at nine DMV venues and online; showcasing artists who push against and create their work outside the socially-mainstreamed boundaries of sound and vision.
https://www.queeringsound.com