Jesse Perlstein (of Sontag Shogun; US) & Shinya Sugimoto (JP) combine haunting vocals, field recordings, piano etudes, oscillator drones and digital algorithmic noise to create minimal soundscapes that blossom into lush nostalgia-tinged requiems. The balance between ambience and harmonic vox/keys swells give these improvised performances a feeling of intention and composition that reflects the long-standing collaboration the two artists have shared.

They will be performing material based from their forthcoming release, “I Confess,” a meditation on the mundane, and how repetition and context can reveal the strange beauty held in every passing moment. Field recordings collected from disparate places, of unremarkable moments are woven together to create a surreal perspective greater than the sum of its parts.

jesseperlstein.com
monkhaus.com
muzaneditions.com


With

Carmen Rothwell & Anna R.G.

Carmen Rothwell is an upright bassist and improviser who regularly collaborates with folks from many corners of NYC's creative music scene. The two have recently begun to form improvised and composed music together, for viola + upright bass, for singing + talking voices.
https://carmenrothwell.com/

anna rg, currently studying sculpture at bard college, once studied with elder banjo and fiddle players in east kentucky and spent the last eight years performing traditional music and stories; her last record, on smithsonian folkways, was dubbed "a radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do" by the new yorker.
https://www.facebook.com/annarobertsgevalt/

Marija Kovacevic:
Classically trained experimental violinist Marija Kovacevic is active in free improvisation and performance and sound art. She’s a member of a violin duo BUKA, Huvudbry recordings, theater company The Million Underscores and Hamish Kilgour Band (The Clean).
https://bukaviolins.bandcamp.com/releases
@buka_violin
@huvudbryrecordings
@themillionunderscores__

Projections by Ian Couch