Feel Recordings In The Bowery
Tuesday April 22 & Tuesday May 20 at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC.
7:30 PM, doors open 6:30pm. $10, tickets in advance or at the door.
Edwin Torres brings his "Feel Recordings" project to The Bowery Club with two separate performances interweaving poetry with live music and recorded sounds to explore the climate's change upon us.
Poetry's ability for a continually evolving language reflects the climate crisis as a human condition. As our survival begins and ends with our personal landscapes, the chance for language to affect change is ever more fraught.
Edwin presents two programs with two groups of brilliant improvisers, who use listening and feel as an entry into nature and performance, to echo the turmoil and evolution ahead of us as a species.
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Feel Recordings In The Terra Field / Tues April 22, 7:30pm
poetry > Edwin Torres
cello > Alex Waterman
electronics/cassettes > Gryphon Rue
snare/dowel > Sean G. Meehan
//// we honor Earth Day with vibrations from / earth turner earthworm / air turner cicada / water turner beaver / to activate our borrowed air / our burrowed air / as Alex, Gryphon and Sean join Edwin to travel the terra field ////
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Feel Recordings In The Water Field / Tues May 20. 7:30pm
poetry > Edwin Torres
violin > Sita Chay
piano > Ricardo Gallo
//// we travel the radial equinox / as if waves could mimic the cliffs we were from / our percussive elements / of ending and quiet / as Sita and Ricardo join Edwin to refract the water field ////
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AW photo by R. Luke DuBois / ET photo by No Land / GR photo by Lena Shkoda / SM photo by Bradley Buehring / SC photo by Roh Seung Hwan / RG photo by Santiago Escobar Jaramillo
"Feel Recordings" is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This project is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
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bios:
Edwin Torres is editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). Poetry collections include; Quanundrum: i will be your many angled thing (Roof Books, 2022 American Book Award winner), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books) and Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press). Multi-disciplinary collaborations with a wide range of cultural nomads have contributed to the development of his bodylingo poetics. He has performed worldwide and received fellowships from Arts MidHudson, NYSCA, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The DIA Foundation, among others. Anthologies include; New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives, American Poets In The 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Sita Chay is a violinist, composer, and a music director who won a 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Best Mariachi Album, as violinist of the Flor de Toloache. She is an awardee of NYFA Women's Fund, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund, LMCC Grant, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and was invited for residencies at the Stone, Joe’s Pub, and the Cell Theatre. Ms. Chay is the director and a founder of the Korean Shaman Music Ritual, SaaWee, which was received by international critics as a “delicate powerhouse”. SaaWee's Return of Songbirds debuted at the Lincoln Center as part of #Retartstage project in 2021 and was invited to Ars Electronica Festival 2021. Her latest project “Multidimensionally Human” is an exploration of psychotherapy modality IFS(Internal Family Systems) through music, dance, visual arts, and theater. Through this project, she hopes to emphasize the direct impact that music has on mental health and self acceptance. sitachay.com
Ricardo Gallo is a Colombian pianist and composer who has written for acoustic and electro-acoustic formats, short films, videos, dance, installations, and multimedia stage productions, and has performed and written for improvisatory groups. He has published fourteen albums as a leader, and has appeared in several compilations in Colombia, USA, and Europe. Currently in New York, he leads the tropical-electric-groovy band Los ALiENs with which he published the LP Odd Subjects in 2022 with the label Juga Music. He also plays his music with the acoustic quartet Horse’s Mouth. He has collaborated with Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña, performing as a duo in the U.S., Chile, and Colombia, releasing the album “La niebla vital, Wiraqochan” in 2022 with Hueso Records. He has received support for his work from the Queens Council of the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, The Banff Centre, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec in Canada. He lives in New York and maintains a strong connection with Bogotá’s music scene. ricardogallo.com
Sean Meehan is a drummer who most notably plays a pared-down kit often consisting of a single snare drum and cymbal, creating sounds that range from the subtle friction of a fork rubbing against a drum to tones that seem electronically-generated. Meehan’s performances include the Amica Bunker series at ABC No Rio, the Instal Festival, Glasgow, The Whitney Biennial, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Goethe-Institut, Hanoi. Meehan also makes music-related objects, intended to be used in the way recordings are, but within the listener’s imagination, rather than aurally. mee-han.com
Gryphon Rue is an artist, composer, and musician. Rue’s music, constructed of complex patterns derived from singing saw, harmonium, and custom synthesizers, discloses a fascination with mimetic potential—the ability to suggest biological actions, molecular events, possession, nourishment—and is above all, made with people’s pleasure in mind. The album A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (Not Not Fun) features percussionist Mustafa Khaliq Ahmed (Arthur Russell, LOLO), with ten videos made by intergenerational collaborators (Abigail Child, B. Wurtz, Keren Cytter, Robert Buck, Dante Lentz, Benton C Bainbridge, Taietzel Ticalos, DataSpaceTime). Rue is a recipient of a Roulette 2022-2023 Commission, made possible with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation. He has previously released on Not Not Fun, Astral Editions, Tiger Sushi, and Soap Library and the most recent album is 4n_Objx. gryphonrue.com/
Alex Waterman is an artist, musician, archivist, and scholar committed to living more musically and exploring ways that the social body sounds. He is archivist at The Kitchen in NYC, has composed music for dance, film, installation works, and site-specific performances, arranged for and recorded with rock bands and singers (The Walkmen, Florence and the Machine, Ghalia Benali) and produced and directed operas. He has also published a series of books with Will Holder on notation and poetics, made a science fiction film on Roosevelt Island, and performed as a soloist and collaborator with acclaimed ensembles internationally for over two decades.Including as an artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial with the composer Robert Ashley. soundcloud.com/watercello