Artists performing at our next event on Friday May 12th, 2017

Eva Redamonti is a composer and visual artist based in Boston, MA. Originally from Connecticut, Eva has been classically trained in flute performance since age ten. Since coming to study Composition at Berklee College of Music (’17) she grew a fascination with writing contemporary music for her instrument. To Eva, the goal of each of her compositions is always to personify a mood or character through balanced interactions in melodic gestures. Eva also creates an extensive amount of visual art. She is fascinated with how the visual and musical arts relate, often making connections between the two in her processes.

“Threshold” is a piece for Solo flute and Electronic Tape. In this piece Eva wanted to illustrate the depth which is felt from breathing in and out of the flute. Rather than accenting musical phrases, this work shows the space after a sound, the inhale before an exhale, and attempts to highlight sounds that naturally occur, with no lyrical effort, from blowing into the flute. By experimenting with these sounds and manipulating them through electronics, her goal was to create an organic narrative by playing with different registers - which are sometimes sweet and sometimes harsh - as well as the percussive qualities of the flute.

Lautaro Mantilla is a composer and improviser from Bogota, Colombia. He has a Bachelor of Music in classical guitar from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), a M.M with Academic Honors in Contemporary Improvisation, and a G.D. in Composition, both from New England Conservatory (NEC), where he studied with Eliot Fisk, Joe Morris, and Anthony Coleman. He has performed both his music and the music of others in major institutions and venues in the US and Colombia such as Columbia University, Harvard University, MIT, ICA, Teatro Colon, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, among others. Mantilla is the department Chair of Contemporary Improvisation Preparatory School and Continuing Education at NEC and he is a Doctorate candidate in Composition at New England Conservatory where he studies with the director of the NEC Electronic Music Studio, John Mallia.

For this concert, Lautaro Mantilla will perform excerpts from his “Battle of the lonely man,” a piece from a series of Battles where Mantilla explores some of the struggles of the contemporary society. “Battle of the lonely man” is a collection of sound poems, improvisations, and short compositions reflecting on mourning, depression, and suicidal behavior returning from a war. Mainly based on the testimony of victims, survivors, and witnesses of an ongoing 60 years old civil war in Colombia, the piece intends to acknowledge the number of wars we battle everyday including the internal one to fit in and being part of something bigger than ourselves. The audience is invited to participate by creating graphic scores based on their own war experiences and letting the performer to read/perform them at loud.

Born and raised in China, Cleo Miao is an undergraduate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She is currently interested in the theories of digital literacy, internet culture, and cybernetics, and is constantly fascinated with the 1960s. Cleo is working primarily with digital media, sculpture, photography, and sound. She deals with all mediums with an experimental approach.  Austin Covell is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and instrument builder from Palm

Beach Gardens, Florida. He is currently studying Sound and Video Art at School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

Cleo and Austin will present improvised duets with Cleo on amplified cactus and Austin using interactive electronics.

Followed by a special event sponsored by Boston Hassle:  Id M Theft Able

Known for his insubordinate and virtuosic improvisational approach to electroacoustic music, Id M Theft Able's performances consist of stream-of-consciousness vocal technique, performative manipulations and gestures with collected objects, as well as the use of an amplified wire and wood sculpture that amasses echoes, shrieks, crashes, and creaks -- assembling all manner of media sources. His works fit into an expansive visual universe and release history collected in mangdisc, an audiovisual label that serves as a vehicle for distribution (including a “found” series) that releases modest quantities of individualized works presented in whatever medium is available at the time.

Id M Theft Able performs within and without the realms of noise, avant-improvisation, sound poetry, performance, etc. using voice, found objects, electronics, and whatever else is available. He has given hundreds of performances across four continents in various settings.