Sara Bouchard returns to Out of Your Head Records Second Mondays at Artspace for an evening of experimental improvisation with fellow KI alum Chrystine Rayburn and Robert Scott-Celedón (recently of Rumput). Featuring mandolin, bass clarinet, vintage Korg synth, vocals and objects, the trio explores close listening, collaborative games and expanded techniques through intertwining melodies, language and textural sound.
Afterwards, Gen Ken Montgomery & the Enchantress of Bioluminosity will be presenting a set of sound & movement. It's going to be an amazing night!
Monday, April 14
8pm - Bouchard / Rayburn / Scott-Celedón
9pm - Gen Ken Montgomery (sound) & the Enchantress of Bioluminosity (movement)
Artspace
2833-A Hathaway Road
Richmond, VA, 23225
Suggested donation: $15
Sara Bouchard is a multidisciplinary artist and composer who uses sound, installation, performance and creative coding to interweave song, story and the landscape. She has exhibited and performed internationally, including at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT), The Center for Book Arts (NYC), ERES Foundation (Munich, Germany), The International Conference for Live Coding (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival (VA). She earned her MFA from VCUarts 2019 and currently teaches Sound in VCUarts' Department of Kinetic Imaging.
Chrystine Rayburn is a multi-instrumentalist, sound artist, and educator who uses found sounds and field recordings as tools for composition, installation, and experimentation. She writes and performs with projects including Big Pal, Lirra Skirra, and the dance company The Little Streams. She holds an MFA in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Robert Scott-Celedón is a chamber composer, folk improviser, writer and educator with creative objectives that emanate directly from a personal objective to overcome a life-long sense of ‘out-of-place-ness’ / diaspora. Recent collaborators include RVA Baroque, Classical Revolution RVA, Rumput kroncong ensemble, RAIC improvisation collective, composer Peni Candra Rini, clarinetist Anna Koch, percussionist Kevin Zetina, pianist Vicky Chow & violist Carrie Frey.
Gen Ken Montgomery is a sound artist/composer/mail art/collagist involved in events which bring people together to focus on the experience of listening.
The Enchantress of Bioluminosity has always been captivated by synesthesia, a phenomenon where one type of artistic stimulation evokes another. The Enchantress (aka Andrea Beeman) received her BA from Georgetown University, where she immersed herself in art historical studies of the Renaissance as well as the fundamentals of painting and sculpture.