IU: Sarah Hennies, Luke Stewart+Keir Neuringer, Kyle Kidd, Flose

Join us for a stellar evening of composition, improv, and experimentation across solo and duo sets from Sarah Hennies, Luke Stewart+Keir Neuringer, Kyle Kidd, and Flose

Sarah Hennies (b. 1979, Louisville, KY) is a composer based in Upstate NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including including queer & trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought. She is primarily a composer of acoustic ensemble music, but is also active in improvisation, film, and performance art. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist with notable performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Warsaw Autumn, Ruhrtriennale (Essen), Archipel Festival (Geneva), Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Time:Spans (NYC), and the Edition Festival (Stockholm). As a composer, she has received commissions across a wide array of performers and ensembles including Bearthoven, Bent Duo, Ensemble Dedalus, The Living Earth Show, Mivos String Quartet, Sarah Saviet/Joe Houston, Talea Ensemble, Nate Wooley, and Yarn/Wire.

Luke Stewart+Keir Neuringer

Luke Stewart is a musician, performer, improviser-composer, organizer, and writer-researcher whose work represents a deep reverence for the history and tradition of Creative Music: a tradition which encompasses the diverse styles of expression within the body of Black Music in the United States, Africa, and throughout the world. Stewart’s regular ensembles include Irreversible Entanglements, SILT Trio, Exposure Quintet, and the experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths; he also performs regularly in numerous collaborations.

Keir Neuringer is a saxophonist, composer, and writer committed to emancipatory and interdisciplinary practices in his work, activism, and parenting. He is a co-founder of the critically-acclaimed band Irreversible Entanglements and the improvisation trio Dromedaries. Traveling widely to present his work, he has appeared internationally on festival stages, in underground spaces, and within academia. His long-form solo saxophone playing is documented on his 2014 double album ; he also performs on electric and electronic keyboard instruments, writes and narrates text (most notably with Dutch group Ensemble Klang, who released the 2020 album of his work ), and composes largely outside of conventional new music scenes.

Kyle Kidd (all pronouns) creates Black Art, pulling from the many different avenues of black music and culture, vocally fusing classical, jazz, blues, gospel, funk and soul. They are currently performing throughout the country with artists such as Mourning a BLKstar, Algiers, and Richard Kennedy. Kyle also works as an educator in the Youth Sing Out program, collaborating with Roots of American Music, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. In their solo division, Kyle composes original music and curates multi-sensory experiences that incorporate stylized video, music, and fashion. They intend for their art in all its forms to be a tribal legacy, centered on representation, raw expression, and true freedom for each of us.

Flose is a nondenominational live "noise" project, extending out of an improvisational practice centered around a fascination with the sonic potential of small, toy, and non-instruments exploded by contact mics and manipulated by pedals.

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