UPEND Presents

Leila Bordreuil
Twig Harper
Elif Dinçer

Leila Bordreuil – the astounding Brooklyn-based cellist and composer from France – corrals feedback with shredder moves, stretching it out, far out. From delicate play on the thresholds between tonality and atonality to aggressive scrape and scrunch, her solo sets on amplified cello are full frequency affairs. These excursions not only plum the possibilities of the instrument, but also the resonances of the architecture in which they are aired.

An active force in New York’s most forward improvising and composing scenes, Bordreuil tours extensively, and has collaborated with a wide gamut of key players including Kali Malone, Laurel Halo, Tamio Shirashi, Michael Foster, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace, Luke Stewart, and Lee Ranaldo.

“Bordreuil’s music accesses concepts from noise, free jazz, contemporary classical and other experimental traditions but adheres to no single genre. Mixing melancholic cello melodies with harsh noise walls, she creates “steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities.” (New York Times). Driven by a fierce interest in pure sound and inherent texture, Leila challenges conventional cello practice through extreme extended techniques and amplification methods, to the extent she sometimes seems to be playing the P.A rather than her cello.”

This dream gig also features solo sets from a couple L.A. heads. System trickster TWIG HARPER brings fresh cybernetic moves into his post-concrète carnival of sound, and harpist ELIF DINÇER opens the show with her clever (and microtonally-forward) improvisations and inventions.

[[ Advance tickets available via Pools ]]