"Marie will be incorporating musical themes from STONE BELLY, a site-specific dance and music work involving composer treya lam and dancer-choreographer-muse Ching-I Chang, exploring the swallowing of sacredness as a way to protect our softest, most tender parts. Taking place inside the stone-filled belly of the Philippine crocodile, the work re-myths the Philippine legends surrounding the crocodile as an ancestral vessel between this world and the next, and the bodies of land/spirit swallowed in their migration to the next life. Marie will bring homemade shareable treats that will fill our own crocodile bellies.

STONE BELLY is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts
Council (BAC)."

Marie will provide shareable treats for the end of the jam.

ingredients: 

- egg white

- water

- coconut milk

- rice flour

- baking powder

- white sugar

- banana leaf

Dan Gorelick is a Brooklyn and Bay Area based musician who integrates his lifelong classical cello background with various technologies to explore the sonic possibilities between the two. He creates improvisational and emerging performances that can respond to the energy of the space. He performs in many different contexts, from contact jams to sound baths as well as more experimental electronic events. 

Dan is organizer and educator, creating community-oriented gatherings that cultivate new connections and creativity at the local level. He is a co-founder and organizer of the artist collective AV Club SF, and a member and organizer of the LivecodeNYC collective. He is a past student of the School for Poetic Computation, and a member of the NEW INC Year 10 cohort.

Marie Lloyd Paspe is a Filipina-American choreographer, performance maker, dance and vocal artist, educator, writer, and activist. She is a 2024 Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artist Fellow and from her time with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreography with the company for contributions to the 2021 production “Deep Blue Sea.” She was a 2023-24 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow, 2023 GALLIM Moving Artist Resident, and the 2022 Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellow.

Marie was born in Singapore, grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and Boston, MA, has lived in NYC in almost every borough except Staten Island since 2012, and received U.S. Citizenship in 2019. She is of Batangueña lineage from her mom’s side from Mataasnakahoy, Batangas on the Philippine island of Luzon, and of Ilonggo lineage from her dad’s side from Iloilo City, Iloilo on the Philippine island of Panay.

Marie performed with choreographers Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (2018-2024), and Carolyn Dorfman (2016-2018); and musicians treya lam, Sugar Vendil, and Sirintip Tippan Phasuk, among other world building artists. Her choreography has been presented internationally in Germany, the Philippines, China; and nationally across USA. Recent highlights include Taikang Space (Beijing, China), TOPAZ Arts residency, choreographer for treya lam at Joe’s Pub and MASS MoCA, and choreography for Kyoko Takenaka at Lincoln Center.

treya lam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who’s joyously complex identity informs but does not define their work, whether solo or when collaborating with a variety of multidisciplinary ensembles. their strident voice, politically charged songwriting and fluency on guitar, piano and looped viola recalls Nina Simone and Andrew Bird. treya’s debut Good News was created entirely by womxn and genderqueer collaborators and released via Kaki King’s label.

lam is a OneBeat fellow, NYCLU Artist Ambassador and active member of the Resistance Revival Chorus. their song Dawn was featured on the RRC’s debut album This Joy - released on Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records. lam has performed original music at Lincoln Center, MASS MoCA, the Prospect Park Bandshell and the American Museum of Natural History and opened for Ani Difranco, Valerie June and Kaki King.

they are currently developing otherland - an interdisciplinary grief ritual and chamber protest album that explores grief as a catalyst for radical empathy, intersectional solidarity and repairing our relationship to the earth.

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Galen Passen is a sitarist, composer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. His work aims to create intimate narratives, weaving together a diversity of forms and approaches. He lived in New Delhi, India between 2009 and 2017 studying hindustani music. The exposure to India’s layered history and diversity plays a significant role in Passen’s artistic and life work. 

Passen performs Hindustani classical music, experimental composition, collaborations with dance, and multi media movement theatre. He has worked with The Pittsburgh Opera, Brooklyn Raga Massive, The Silk Road Project’s GMW, Korean Piri master, Gamin Kang., and regularly tours with his crossover group, Compass. His visual work has been featured in arts publications and commissioned for books, album covers, and personal collections. He received his bachelors degree from Goddard College whose emphasis on social ethics and critical thinking helped to develop his understanding of the formidable influence and responsibility of all culture workers. You can read more about Passen at www.galenpassen.com 

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LARAAJI Harlem, NY multi instrumentalist , composer, recording artist, Therapeutic Laughter Teacher Educated in music theory-composition and piano at Howard University, Washington DC USA..1962-66 .performs and records stimulating new music informed by his love of dance movement, trance meditation, Visionary sound and bliss life style.. “When I’m Dancing I’m everywhere I Need To Be”

https://www.instagram.com/laraaji_official/?hl=en

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Zingha Love with A Sound Sol creates multidimensional rest spaces for those who services others while moving through a well curated flow that has been developed over 4 years of Transformational Life Coaching ,Yoga, Reiki, and CBT Mindfulness studies. Blending Ayurvedic influenced Vinyasa Yoga with ancient breath-work techniques, Zingha has created her own yoga flow and sensation sound emporium. Using alchemy crystal healing bowls, contact movement, different percussion instruments she activates the self within the body. 

Anya Tran is an interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. Raised in Russia in a Vietnamese household, and possessing a background in computer science and classical music, her practice revolves around navigating dualities: East and West, digital and analog, audio and visual, ambient and structured music. She has created projection mappings for an experimental short art film JCX (2023), performed live visual shows in Brooklyn, and engaged in improvisational sessions on the piano and theremin with other musicians.

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Kirin McElwain is a cellist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer working in the realms of experimental, improvised, contemporary classical, and popular music.

In her own sound and compositional practice, she uses cello, modular synthesizer, and voice to explore the tension between formal structure and chaos, western classical harmony and noise, and ideas of “goodness” and “correctness.” 

Her self-released debut EP, Viriditas, received praise from Foxy Digitalis, A Closer Listen, and Anxious Magazine. 

In May of 2023, Kirin completed a residency at Elektron Musikstudion (Stockholm, SE) working with the halldorophone and Buchla 200 system to generate new material for a future solo release. She is currently working on her first full-length solo release.

Trained as a classical cellist, Kirin is equally at home in concert halls, recording studios, and DIY venues. As a cellist, she has performed on various film and television scores (HBO, Gimlet Media, PBS, NPR Music, Amazon Prime, YouTube Music), contemporary artists (Post Malone, Ioanna Gika, This Will Destroy You), contemporary dance concerts (Claudia Schreier Company, Harlem Dance Theater, Triskelion Arts), mixed media installations (the MET, James Cohan Gallery, Neue Galerie), and traditional classical and contemporary classical concerts (Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, Kimmel Center).

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MDN (they/them/we) is the livecode of M DeNardo

their livecode ambient spells in M8 tracker and Hydra Video Synth conjure visions of constellations, meditation, and infinity.

their release ‘black_hole’ addresses near-death experiences during childhood and the hypothesis that "all beings are singularity material."

'black_hole' bandcamp page

'black_hole' spotify page

'black_hole' oblada review

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Chuktah is Augusto Moreno-Beltrán, an electronic music artist and producer splitting his time between Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY.

Blending electronic, ambient, and experimental elements, Chuktah invites listeners into immersive sound- and landscapes of rhythm, developing narratives within and across music styles and backgrounds. His collaborations and DJ explorations search musical connections to the essence of sound itself.

https://chuktah.bandcamp.com/album/nuevo-leon

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Lesley Mok (b. 1994) is a New York City-based percussionist and interdisciplinary artist who works in sound, installation, film, and theater. Interested in the ways social conditions shape our beings, Lesley’s work focuses on overacting humanness to explore ideas about alienness and privilege. Their work draws from queer and feminist art practices, Chinese philosophy, Afro-Cuban musical traditions, futurist perspectives, and ancestral knowledge.

Their ongoing explorations with composition and improvisation are most notably documented in their debut album The Living Collection (out May 2023 on American Dreams Records) that features a ten-piece improvising chamber ensemble. The album, described as “an exquisite and stimulating work” by All About Jazz and “a singularly personal statement” by Jazz Trail Magazine, was named International Debut Album of the Year at the 2024 Deutscher Jazz Preis.

Other recent works include stilled leaf-chatter (2022), bird in its chest (2022), pooling light (2021), but I forced to mind my vision of a sky (2020), and she smashed the enclosure (2020).

Lesley is a recipient of the 2022 Resident Artist at Roulette Intermedium, 2021 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, Hermitage Fellow, 2021 Van Lier Artist at the Asian American Arts Alliance, and a member of the inaugural cohort of Mutual Mentorship for Musicians. Their work has been commissioned and performed by International Contemporary Ensemble, Metropolis Ensemble, and JACK Quartet.

In addition to their own practice, Lesley is a part of collaborative ensemble vehicle / passenger (Marc Alberto & Florian Herzog). They can also be heard in Myra Melford’s Fire and Water, David Leon: Bird’s Eye, and Anna Webber’s Shimmer Wince.

As a percussionist, Lesley has performed alongside Tomeka Reid, William Parker, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Malvorson, Kenny Barron, John Patitucci, Cory Smythe, Jen Shyu, Kalia Vandever, Fay Victor, Adam O’Farrill, and others. They have performed throughout the Americas and Europe, including Roulette Intermedium, SF Jazz, Ringling Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art, Unerhört Festival, Jazzowa Jesien, Cologne Jazz Festival, moers festival, Panama Jazz Festival, and Dominican Republic Jazz Festival.

Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer/producer, and improvising musician. Her music is the mystical translation between the privacy of her inner world and the somatic extrication of such. Through polyphonic narrative, ecstatic release, and coy murmurs, she bends between her diverse musical influences in the avant-garde, opera, Jazz, and electronic music. She has had the privilege of collaborating with musicians, composers, visual artists, directors and dancers at venues such as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joe's Pub, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, and more. She recently played the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist in the Off-Broadway production of "Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower", Toshi Reagon's theatrical adaptation of the beloved novel.

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Ryan Wolfe is a songwriter, singer, composer, and instrumentalist from Portland, OR. Since graduating from the University of Michigan he has lived in NYC where he plays for dance for Hofstra University, Princeton University, Mark Morris Dance Group, Limon Company, and Cunningham Trust, among other places. He has performed and collaborated with choreographers and dance companies such as Rebecca Lazier, Jordan Lloyd, Alice Liddell and Dancers, Grounded View, CNDC/Angers, The Lovelies, and Colin Stilwell, and Chloe London.

instagram: @ohwowitsryan

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Dan Gorelick is a Brooklyn and Bay Area based musician who integrates his lifelong classical cello background with various technologies to explore the sonic possibilities between the two. He creates improvisational and emerging performances that can respond to the energy of the space. He performs in many different contexts, from contact jams to sound baths as well as more experimental electronic events. 

Dan is organizer and educator, creating community-oriented gatherings that cultivate new connections and creativity at the local level. He is a co-founder and organizer of the artist collective AV Club SF, and a member and organizer of the LivecodeNYC collective. He is a past student of the School for Poetic Computation, and a member of the NEW INC Year 10 cohort.

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Melissa Elledge is an accordionist based in NYC. She moved to New York in 2004 to pursue her Master’s in Classical piano performance at NYU. She’s a regular fixture of the subway system, having been a busker since 2009 and accepted into the MTA’s Music Under New York program in 2012. She is known for her arrangements of idiosyncratic contemporary pieces for the accordion, particularly her covers of classic rap songs. Melissa has performed all over the country, both solo and with many bands, but still finds no comparison to the mellifluous acoustics of the subway tiles. She has been featured in a wide range of media, from Monday Night Football to the cover of Crain’s magazine. She has worked with actors, puppeteers, dancers, filmmakers, animators, VR producers, contortionists, rappers, and more. Melissa’s non-music work includes extensive art modeling and some background acting in and around the tri-state area. When she’s not at her “office” (2nd Ave Brooklyn-bound F platform), she can be found in her local East Village dojo, where she began karate training in 2022. 

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Ran Livneh is a bass player, improviser and composer. In his music, Ran explores the relationship of tone and atmosphere over traditional musical forms, nature and abstraction.

http://www.livnehran.com

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Kristina Moore is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist hailing from Phoenix and based in NYC. She has been releasing music under the moniker, “koleżanka” for several years, premiering her first LP “Place Is” via Bar/None Records in 2021. While “Place Is” was an exegesis on place and travel and a point of self-discovery, her latest release "Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes” explores the inward, the making of friends with even the unsettling states of being, and of reckoning with a self and a body. In between both records, Moore joined Foyer Red, an NYC-based art rock group, on guitar and secondary vocals. Foyer Red released “Yarn the Hours Away” via Carpark records earlier this year.

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Melinda Faylor is a Filipina American pianist/composer based in New York City. Ms. Faylor weaves together dense and mercurial sound worlds using field recordings, synthesized sound and piano. As a collaborative artist, she has worked extensively with dance. Her long time interest in John Cage, in particular his aleatoric practices and extended piano techniques, led her to co-create several scores for music and dance with Loren Groenendaal and the Vervet Dance Company of Philadelphia, PA. Current projects include a solo electroacoustic album, Sari Sari Storybooks with Music (a musical setting of Filipino children's books by author Christina Newhard), a duo with violinist Gillian Rivers and her interdisciplinary theater piece MeMeMeMe. MeMeMeMe is a series of generative performances in four parts, building upon experiments with meme and emoji language through parlor games and emoji tarot card divination. She is the recipient of the Ma-Yi Theater grant (2021), NMUSA Creator Fund grant (2023) and the Queens Art Fund grant (2023).

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LARAAJI Harlem, NY multi instrumentalist , composer, recording artist, Therapeutic Laughter Teacher Educated in music theory-composition and piano at Howard University, Washington DC USA..1962-66 .performs and records stimulating new music informed by his love of dance movement, trance meditation, Visionary sound and bliss life style.. “When I’m Dancing I’m everywhere I Need To Be”

https://www.instagram.com/laraaji_official/?hl=en

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"Sylvia Ke is a multi-disciplinary artist, performer, resident alien of the United States (legal, for now), and transexual degenerate aging in Brooklyn, NY.
 
Sylvia explores alternative modes of being for future technologies and computation, by creating and programming circuits integrated with up-cycled electronic parts, biochemical formations, and human intimacy. In their thoughts and works, they are troubled and fascinated by how science, technologies, and rituals redraw the boundaries of skins, desires, and myths and vice versa. They are currently hunting for synthetic bodies, spiritual interfaces, and yearning glitches in this hardware-accelerated world.

Their hobby is to suck on the juicy, rubbery nails of pickled chicken feet and describe it to people in graphical details."

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ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi, is a multi-instrumental composer and audiovisual artist based in Brooklyn, originally from a small town in Japan.
ÉMU creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature.

Using piezo microphones attached to wood bark wound with guitar strings and porcelain bowls carefully tuned with water measurements, she plays and conducts the sound objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures are created solely with touches by hand, stones, leaves, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed with modular synthesizers for the added aesthetic atmosphere.

ÉMU has been involved in larger-scale projection mappings such as Ambient Church and dome projections at Bubbletecture H to pursue the experience of sound and visual art in search of coexisting and resonating with nature and technology.

as·phyx·i·a (2015), a collaborative effort and experimental film created with Frederico Phillips, performed by Shiho Tanaka, was selected as a New Directors Shortlist by Saatchi & Saatchi, showcased at Cannes Lions and MoMA.
It appeared on nearly 200 international mediums, including BBC Newsnight, Canadian Daily Planet, TIME, and Microsoft commercials.

In 2020, ÉMU curated the audiovisual compilation Solace with Testu Collective with international artists for fundraising for IRC during the early Covid-19 exposure. Solace was projected onto the Manhattan bridge at Light Year:76.
She remotely showcased A Trilogy of Waves at Sound Forms 2020 hosted by Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong.

ÉMU frequently collaborates with insomniac hotel since 2021 as MA to explore sound art, installations, and audiovisual performances. The duo has performed at Ars electronica x NKB, online festivals such as Festival Pleamar, and exhibition openings.

Maria created visual programming for Petal Mori, illuminating Yuri Shimojo’s art piece with 108 Petri-dishes with Sakura petals made of torn washi paper placed on the salt mound for her exhibition Memento Mori at Praise Shadows Art Gallery in 2021.  

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Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer/producer, and improvising musician. She has dedicated her practice to exploring rainbows of musical possibilities and practicing a voracious effort of artistic innovation, expression, and collaboration. She heads her eponymous solo project and is the vocalist and co-composer for the art rock band saajtak. She has had the privilege of working and performing with many people who inspire her including Shara Nova, Toshi Reagon, Chris Bruce, Morley Kamen, Nathan Thatcher, Theo Bleckmann, Asuka Kakitani, Joo Won Park, Eleonore Oppenheim, Nicole Mannarino, Aaron Edgcomb’s CLAK, and Ragnar Kjartansson.

With a three-and-a-half octave range, she weaves together improvisation, electronic processing, extended technique and a keen technical prowess that has made her a versatile artist in each new music, Jazz and improvised, and rock/indie and DIY scenes.

Centering the emotionality of the human experience, she creates an explosive sound that has been called “impossibly stunning” [Stereo Stickman], “primal and futuristic at the same time” [Current Magazine] and that “bends between operatic and punk rock” [Audiofemme].

She has collaborated with musicians, composers, visual artists, directors and dancers and toured across North America at venues such as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Jazz Festival, Joe’s Pub, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more. She currently plays the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist in the National Tour of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of Sower, the theater adaptation of the beloved novel of the same title [Dirs. Toshi Reagon, Signe Harriday, & Eric Ting]. She graduated from The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2015.

She was a Teaching Artist with Ann Arbor’s University Musical Society and has conducted guest artist teaching workshops in voice and performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Merry Washington, and the University of Michigan. She has taught private voice lessons at numerous performing arts organizations including Expressions Music Academy, Dance Dynamics, and Third Wave Music. Additionally, she enjoys baking fancy cakes, loves reading, hiking, and making demo videos for Red Panda Lab’s effects pedals.

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Galen Passen is a sitarist, composer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. His work aims to create intimate narratives, weaving together a diversity of forms and approaches. He lived in New Delhi, India between 2009 and 2017 studying hindustani music. The exposure to India’s layered history and diversity plays a significant role in Passen’s artistic and life work. 

Passen performs Hindustani classical music, experimental composition, collaborations with dance, and multi media movement theatre. He has worked with The Pittsburgh Opera, Brooklyn Raga Massive, The Silk Road Project’s GMW, Korean Piri master, Gamin Kang., and regularly tours with his crossover group, Compass. His visual work has been featured in arts publications and commissioned for books, album covers, and personal collections. He received his bachelors degree from Goddard College whose emphasis on social ethics and critical thinking helped to develop his understanding of the formidable influence and responsibility of all culture workers. You can read more about Passen at www.galenpassen.com 

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Wes Swing is a singer, cellist, writer, and composer who lives in Mexico City. His musical journey began as a four-year-old classical violinist. Later he found his true musical love in playing and composing for cello. In live performance, Wes loops his cello and sings. His music is featured regularly on NPR, in film, on tour, and by several modern dance companies. In addition to music, he is currently learning Spanish, taking long walks, and teaching Latin online to kids.

https://wesswing.com/home

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Mark Willis is a dance artist, teacher and choreographer from NYC. Mark has graced both national and international stages as a dancer with WHITE WAVE Dance Company and the José Limón Dance Company, performing at renowned venues such as the Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theatre, and Asia Cultural Center (South Korea).  He began his formal dance training at Montclair State University, where he earned his B.F.A. in Dance. He’s had the pleasure of working with BARKIN/SELISSEN Project, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Jody Oberfelder, ChristinaNoel and The Creature among others. Mr. Willis has taught and performed in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and throughout North America. His teaching credits include The José Limón Dance Foundation, Montclair State University, Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Center, Seoul Tanz Studio and more. His other creative passions include composing, singing, and playing the trumpet.

Ying-Da Chen 陳穎達, a guitarist, composer from Taiwan. Considered a jazz guitarist first and foremost, his fourth album of original music came out and, again, showing that he has reached an audience beyond jazz lovers.

“A man with renaissance spirits, using modern tools.” Ying-Da continues to showcase his love for chamber music, played in the form of a jazz quartet, through his free improvisation and musical interpretation of expressionism, and his obsession with love and death as a common theme throughout his compositions has become more clear.

Before moving to New York in Sep 2021, Ying-Da studied classical music in Taipei, jazz music in Amsterdam, and performed frequently at local venues, small and major festivals, and did several tours in Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Europe. Performing and writing music had been a big part of his daily life. And of course, in his musical journey there have been dancers. In 2013, one magical semester of weekly free-improv session with graduate students at Taipei National University of the Arts opened a new window for him, a new way to feel and breath, it started to gradually change his music. Since then there have been occasional Improv sessions with dancers, mostly with groups of dancers with several males holding their instruments. In 2018, YD was chosen to perform with the Primal Chaos 混沌身響 -Dance X Sounds improvisation event held by HorseDance 驫舞劇場 in Taipei, where he performed a solo set with a solo dancer Su-Lien Lin. Being the only instrumentalist on set, he was humbled but the responsibility of moving the music forward and liberated by the freedom that came with it.

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接觸即興舞醬CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM + MEDICINAL SONGS FOR 15 MINUTES AGO

BRIDGING A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TIME AND LANGUAGE, MEDICINAL SONGS FOR 15 MINUTES AGO IS PREPARED TO WITNESS/WELCOME NEW FEELINGS IN OUR SHARED LANGUAGE OF SONG AND STORYTELLING. AS THE WILD ANCESTORS OF THE FUTURE INDIGENOUS HIP HOP ARTIST, AND CONTEMPORARY DESCENDANTS OF ANCESTOR ARTIST-WARRIORS, MARITRI + PENELOPE WILL CLAP, GREET, HARMONIZE, AND PLAY WITHIN A 3-HOUR FRAMEWORK OF ORIGINAL SONGS.

Maritri is a Southern California native currently living in California after twenty years of being a professional musician in New York. She is a multi instrumentalist, ( piano, guitar , bass, cello and percussion), vocalist, composer ( ballet , film , theater) and educator. She has traveled the world playing and creating music. She has worked with Gladys Knight, Barbra Streisand, Meshell N’Dege Ocello Sekou  Sundiata ,  Ani Di Franco, Michael Amante, Nona Hendryx, Black Rock Coalition, Burnt Sugar Arkestra,Geri Allen, Sekou Sundiata, Corey Glover, Marcus Machado and many others. She currently leads a conglomerate of singer songwriting multi- instrumentalists called the Soulfolk Experience. Their music is available on Spotify, Apple music and youtube.

During the pandemic, she hosted a show from her home five nights a week for an hour playing originals and favorites called Reunion of Souls on facebook at facebook.com/maritrigarrett

https://www.maritri.com/

Penelope J. Armstead (they/she) is a daughter, queer artist and educator, activist, choreographer and songwriter based in Philadelphia, PA. Their most recent research in youth education has led them to write lesson plans in Hip Hop history and mindful goal setting in Camden, NJ K-12 classrooms. They have performed internationally and locally as a dance artist, including the first African-American musical theatre cast to tour Seoul, South Korea.*

In Winter 2023, Penelope will receive their C2 Certificate in Hip Hop Technique from Rennie Harris University, becoming one of the 1st historical training cohorts to align collegiate standards with the five Pillars of Hip Hop and Street Styles Culture, as mentored by North Philly legend Dr. Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris.

South Jersey bread. They are honored to live and play on Lenapehoking sacred UNCEDED land.

She enjoys visiting the library, laying in the grass, and movement freestyles on a very few special hills in Germantown, West Philly.

*DreamGirls, OD productions 2017.

https://peachkrayz.wordpress.com/medicinal_songs/

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Ryan Wolfe is a songwriter, singer, composer, and instrumentalist from Portland, OR. Since graduating from the University of Michigan he has lived in NYC where he plays for dance for Hofstra University, Princeton University, Mark Morris Dance Group, Limon Company, and Cunningham Trust, among other places. He has performed and collaborated with choreographers and dance companies such as Rebecca Lazier, Jordan Lloyd, Alice Liddell and Dancers, Grounded View, CNDC/Angers, The Lovelies, and Colin Stilwell, and Chloe London.

instagram: @ohwowitsryan

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Marie Lloyd Paspe (she/her) is a Filipina-American dance and vocal performer, choreographer, educator, and writer based in lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY. Paspe is Bessie-awarded for Outstanding Choreography for contributions to Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's "Deep Blue Sea," 2022 Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellow, 2023 Gallim Moving Artist Resident, and 2024 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow.

Her work re-roots the diasporic Asian body, focusing in harmonious belonging in ‘kapwa’ (“I and the Other are One") that exists within and juxtaposes the patrionormative space. Paspe’s work was presented in Germany, Israel, the Philippines, and China; and nationally in NYC, Boston, LA, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and Minneapolis. Features include film performance at Taikang Space (Beijing, China), resident artist at TOPAZ Arts (Queens, NYC), choreographic director for treya lam at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA). Press features include The New York Times and Fjord Review.

treya lam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose expansive and intersecting identities inform but do not define their work, whether solo or when collaborating with ensembles across a variety of disciplines. their atmospheric voice, liberation oriented songwriting and fluency on guitar, piano and looped viola recalls Nina Simone and Andrew Bird. treya’s debut Good News was created entirely by womxn and genderqueer collaborators and released via Kaki King’s label. Smithsonian Magazine states lam’s work “perfectly captures the mixture of love, loss and hope”.

lam is currently developing otherland - an audiovisual chamber-folk album and multidisciplinary ritual on healing in the wake of grief and loss, radical self acceptance, and transformation through individual and collective healing. this work is supported by NYSCA, NYC’s Women’s Fund and Joe’s Pub’s New York Voices Commission.

lam is a OneBeat fellow, NYCLU Artist Ambassador and active member of the Resistance Revival Chorus. their song Dawn was featured on the RRC’s debut album This Joy - released on Righteous Babe Records. lam has supported and shared stages with Ani DiFranco, Valerie June and Kaki King and has performed original music at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, MASS MoCA and the Newport Folk Fest.

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LARAAJI Harlem, NY multi instrumentalist , composer, recording artist, Therapeutic Laughter Teacher Educated in music theory-composition and piano at Howard University, Washington DC USA..1962-66 .performs and records stimulating new music informed by his love of dance movement, trance meditation, Visionary sound and bliss life style.. “When I’m Dancing I’m everywhere I Need To Be”

https://www.instagram.com/laraaji_official/?hl=en

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Melinda Faylor is a Filipina American pianist/composer based in New York City. Ms. Faylor weaves together dense and mercurial sound worlds using field recordings, synthesized sound and piano. As a collaborative artist, she has worked extensively with dance. Her long time interest in John Cage, in particular his aleatoric practices and extended piano techniques, led her to co-create several scores for music and dance with Loren Groenendaal and the Vervet Dance Company of Philadelphia, PA. Current projects include a solo electroacoustic album, Sari Sari Storybooks with Music (a musical setting of Filipino children's books by author Christina Newhard), a duo with violinist Gillian Rivers and her interdisciplinary theater piece MeMeMeMe. MeMeMeMe is a series of generative performances in four parts, building upon experiments with meme and emoji language through parlor games and emoji tarot card divination. She is the recipient of the Ma-Yi Theater grant (2021), NMUSA Creator Fund grant (2023) and the Queens Art Fund grant (2023).

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ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi is a composer and audiovisual artist who creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature. Using piezo microphones attached to porcelain bowls with water measurements, Maria plays and conducts the sound-objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created by sand, dry leaves, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed with modular synthesizers for added aesthetic atmosphere.

http://www.maria-takeuchi.com

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Catherine Chen is a multidisciplinary poet and performer living in Brooklyn. Their practice activates a kind of architectural writing exploring the ways they inhabit rituals of mourning, desire, and postcolonial identity making. A Lambda Literary and Poets House fellow, they have received artist support and fellowships from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Arts Center at Governors Island), Theater Mitu, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Monson Arts Center. They are the author of Beautiful Machine Woman Language (Noemi Press, 2023).

https://www.aluutte.com/

Kristina Moore is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist hailing from Phoenix and based in NYC. She has been releasing music under the moniker, “koleżanka” for several years, premiering her first LP “Place Is” via Bar/None Records in 2021. While “Place Is” was an exegesis on place and travel and a point of self-discovery, her latest release "Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes” explores the inward, the making of friends with even the unsettling states of being, and of reckoning with a self and a body. In between both records, Moore joined Foyer Red, an NYC-based art rock group, on guitar and secondary vocals. Foyer Red released “Yarn the Hours Away” via Carpark records earlier this year.

Brooklyn-based Michael Madrid is on a quest for genuine connection through music and performance art. Mixing experimental rock, orchestral sound collages, and a dash of indie flair à la The Books and The Microphones, Michael crafts soundscapes aimed at disrupting the everyday and sparking inward change. But for them, it's more than just making noise; it's about seeking catharsis, for themselves and everyone in the room. Whether drumming for the local rock trio "Mope" or pouring their soul into their own project, James World, Michael plays to stir hearts and challenge minds, all while staying grounded in a philosophy of openness and vulnerability.

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Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer, improvising musician, actor, and interdisciplinary artist. She has dedicated her practice to exploring rainbows of musical possibilities and practicing a voracious effort of artistic innovation, expression, and collaboration. She is the vocalist and co-composer for Detroit art rock band saajtak and has had the privilege of working with many people who inspire her.

With improvisation as a foundational part of her practice, she utilizes electronic processing, extended technique, and her diverse musical influences to create an explosive sound that has been called “impossibly stunning” [Stereo Stickman], “primal and futuristic at the same time” [Current Magazine] and that “bends between operatic and punk rock” [Audiofemme].

She has collaborated with musicians, visual artists, directors and dancers and toured across North America at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Jazz Festival, Joe’s Pub, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more. Her professional theater debut has been in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of Sower, for which she plays the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist. She graduated from The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2015.

She was a Teaching Artist with Ann Arbor’s University Musical Society and has conducted classes in creative singing and performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Merry Washington, and the University of Michigan. Additionally, she has taught private voice lessons at numerous performing arts organizations including Expressions Music Academy, Dance Dynamics, and Third Wave Music. Additionally, she enjoys baking fancy cakes, science fiction, hiking, and making demo videos for Red Panda Lab’s effects pedals.

https://www.alexkoimusic.com/

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Ying-Da Chen 陳穎達, a guitarist, composer from Taiwan. Considered a jazz guitarist first and foremost, his fourth album of original music came out and, again, showing that he has reached an audience beyond jazz lovers.

“A man with renaissance spirits, using modern tools.” Ying-Da continues to showcase his love for chamber music, played in the form of a jazz quartet, through his free improvisation and musical interpretation of expressionism, and his obsession with love and death as a common theme throughout his compositions has become more clear.

Before moving to New York in Sep 2021, Ying-Da studied classical music in Taipei, jazz music in Amsterdam, and performed frequently at local venues, small and major festivals, and did several tours in Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Europe. Performing and writing music had been a big part of his daily life. And of course, in his musical journey there have been dancers. In 2013, one magical semester of weekly free-improv session with graduate students at Taipei National University of the Arts opened a new window for him, a new way to feel and breath, it started to gradually change his music. Since then there have been occasional Improv sessions with dancers, mostly with groups of dancers with several males holding their instruments. In 2018, YD was chosen to perform with the Primal Chaos 混沌身響 -Dance X Sounds improvisation event held by HorseDance 驫舞劇場 in Taipei, where he performed a solo set with a solo dancer Su-Lien Lin. Being the only instrumentalist on set, he was humbled but the responsibility of moving the music forward and liberated by the freedom that came with it.