photo credit: Elisa Norcini
Tuesday March 24 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-30 * TICKETS
Presented by Outside Time
Mariam Rezaei - Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award-winning composer, turntablist and performer working across experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club music and hip-hop. Described by The Wire as “one of the most technically adept and creatively daring artists to use the turntable as a musical instrument,” Rezaei uses a digital vinyl system, allowing her to manipulate an expansive range of samples in real time using classic turntablist skills and her own innovative techniques.
The Anglo-Iranian virtuoso’s latest solo release FRACTURED (Heat Crimes) has been praised by The Wire, Uncut and Bandcamp Daily, and was one of The Quietus’ cassette releases of 2024. Rezaei is a member of the international free music supergroup The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters and the pioneering Turntable Trio with Evicshen and Maria Chávez. Her co-composition with Matthew Shlomowitz, 6 Scenes for Turntable and Orchestra, was premiered at IMD Darmstadt 2023. Other collaborators include Jennifer Walshe, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Edward George, Pat Thomas, Farida Amadou, Valentina Magaletti, Lasse Marhaug and Okkyung Lee.
Katie Magician - Katie (Magician) Macyshyn (they/she) is an artiste and play practitioner. Their collaborative new media art creates communal rituals exploring alienation and reconciliation. Macyshyn holds a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. They have been featured in performance art festivals, DIY venues, and galleries such as Transformer DC, MoCA Arlington, VisArts, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. As an interdisciplinary arts facilitator, Macyshyn has organized multi-media performance events at Furthermore Gallery and was the creative force behind SPECTRAL performance Art Festival. Macyshyn is also an art instructor and songstrix, specializing in the therapeutic benefits of expressive play and rhythm in early childhood. She is a fixture at experimental performance venue Rhizome DC, is on the VisArts Craft Advisory Council, and is an alumnus of the DC Arts Center’s Sparkplug Collective. They live in Mount Rainier, MD and are from Toms River, NJ.
Lustre Chantant - Max Hamel and Christopher Griffiths. Some real chin stroking stuff for sure….