Nada Presents: Quad Concert # 4, with MSHR, Kiisu, Rice & Justin Meyers

Nada brings you our fourth quadraphonic concert, featuring Portland based audiovisual collective, MSHR. W/ an incredible supporting bill.

About this Event

MSHR

MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems.

Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current.

They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.

MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon.

The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.

Justin Meyers

Justin Meyers is an experimental musician and visual artist residing in Minneapolis. His work spans the formats of video, sound, screen, & print, but maintains a strong minimal approach across all mediums while confronting the expectations shared amongst the performer and audience. Instruments and processes used in his sound work include commercial and home-built modular synthesizers, reel-to-reel tape machines, computer algorithms and arrangement, obfuscated natural sound events and field recordings. In an effort to create an outlet for his own work and like minded contemporaries he founded Sympathy Limited in 2014.

Kiisu

Kiisu is an explorative sound project from Minneapolis-based artist, Niki Kitz. Through the use of modular synthesizers, her voice, electroacoustic instruments and audible artifacts from her daily life, she creates lush drones and peculiar microscopic soundscapes that are rich with texture and ripe with feeling.

Rice

Texture accumulating from grains; simple elements varied, superimposed, and contrasted. Dialogue without attribution, uncountable lines scoring an ambiguous scenography. Building another crystal liturgy.

is James Blake, M. Harlan Engelmann, and Toby Ramaswamy, creating music with a focus on timbre and harmony. Intuitive forms explore the gradual processes of minimalism, or reflect the pacing of narrative media. Performing with analog synths, acoustic instruments, and a wide array of digital tools, rice is variously delicate or dense, and always strives for immersion.

rice began in 2016 and is based in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. It continues to reexamine its compositional approach, developing new interfaces and techniques for interacting with instruments and shaping sound sources.

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