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ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi, is a multi-instrumental composer and audiovisual artist based in Brooklyn, originally from a small town in Japan.
ÉMU creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature.

Using piezo microphones attached to wood bark wound with guitar strings and porcelain bowls carefully tuned with water measurements, she plays and conducts the sound objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures are created solely with touches by hand, stones, leaves, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed with modular synthesizers for the added aesthetic atmosphere.

ÉMU has been involved in larger-scale projection mappings such as Ambient Church and dome projections at Bubbletecture H to pursue the experience of sound and visual art in search of coexisting and resonating with nature and technology.

as·phyx·i·a (2015), a collaborative effort and experimental film created with Frederico Phillips, performed by Shiho Tanaka, was selected as a New Directors Shortlist by Saatchi & Saatchi, showcased at Cannes Lions and MoMA.
It appeared on nearly 200 international mediums, including BBC Newsnight, Canadian Daily Planet, TIME, and Microsoft commercials.

In 2020, ÉMU curated the audiovisual compilation Solace with Testu Collective with international artists for fundraising for IRC during the early Covid-19 exposure. Solace was projected onto the Manhattan bridge at Light Year:76.
She remotely showcased A Trilogy of Waves at Sound Forms 2020 hosted by Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong.

ÉMU frequently collaborates with insomniac hotel since 2021 as MA to explore sound art, installations, and audiovisual performances. The duo has performed at Ars electronica x NKB, online festivals such as Festival Pleamar, and exhibition openings.

Maria created visual programming for Petal Mori, illuminating Yuri Shimojo’s art piece with 108 Petri-dishes with Sakura petals made of torn washi paper placed on the salt mound for her exhibition Memento Mori at Praise Shadows Art Gallery in 2021.  

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Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer/producer, and improvising musician. She has dedicated her practice to exploring rainbows of musical possibilities and practicing a voracious effort of artistic innovation, expression, and collaboration. She heads her eponymous solo project and is the vocalist and co-composer for the art rock band saajtak. She has had the privilege of working and performing with many people who inspire her including Shara Nova, Toshi Reagon, Chris Bruce, Morley Kamen, Nathan Thatcher, Theo Bleckmann, Asuka Kakitani, Joo Won Park, Eleonore Oppenheim, Nicole Mannarino, Aaron Edgcomb’s CLAK, and Ragnar Kjartansson.

With a three-and-a-half octave range, she weaves together improvisation, electronic processing, extended technique and a keen technical prowess that has made her a versatile artist in each new music, Jazz and improvised, and rock/indie and DIY scenes.

Centering the emotionality of the human experience, she creates an explosive sound that has been called “impossibly stunning” [Stereo Stickman], “primal and futuristic at the same time” [Current Magazine] and that “bends between operatic and punk rock” [Audiofemme].

She has collaborated with musicians, composers, visual artists, directors and dancers and toured across North America at venues such as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Jazz Festival, Joe’s Pub, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more. She currently plays the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist in the National Tour of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of Sower, the theater adaptation of the beloved novel of the same title [Dirs. Toshi Reagon, Signe Harriday, & Eric Ting]. She graduated from The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2015.

She was a Teaching Artist with Ann Arbor’s University Musical Society and has conducted guest artist teaching workshops in voice and performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Merry Washington, and the University of Michigan. She has taught private voice lessons at numerous performing arts organizations including Expressions Music Academy, Dance Dynamics, and Third Wave Music. Additionally, she enjoys baking fancy cakes, loves reading, hiking, and making demo videos for Red Panda Lab’s effects pedals.

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Galen Passen is a sitarist, composer, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NYC. His work aims to create intimate narratives, weaving together a diversity of forms and approaches. He lived in New Delhi, India between 2009 and 2017 studying hindustani music. The exposure to India’s layered history and diversity plays a significant role in Passen’s artistic and life work. 

Passen performs Hindustani classical music, experimental composition, collaborations with dance, and multi media movement theatre. He has worked with The Pittsburgh Opera, Brooklyn Raga Massive, The Silk Road Project’s GMW, Korean Piri master, Gamin Kang., and regularly tours with his crossover group, Compass. His visual work has been featured in arts publications and commissioned for books, album covers, and personal collections. He received his bachelors degree from Goddard College whose emphasis on social ethics and critical thinking helped to develop his understanding of the formidable influence and responsibility of all culture workers. You can read more about Passen at www.galenpassen.com 

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Wes Swing is a singer, cellist, writer, and composer who lives in Mexico City. His musical journey began as a four-year-old classical violinist. Later he found his true musical love in playing and composing for cello. In live performance, Wes loops his cello and sings. His music is featured regularly on NPR, in film, on tour, and by several modern dance companies. In addition to music, he is currently learning Spanish, taking long walks, and teaching Latin online to kids.

https://wesswing.com/home

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Mark Willis is a dance artist, teacher and choreographer from NYC. Mark has graced both national and international stages as a dancer with WHITE WAVE Dance Company and the José Limón Dance Company, performing at renowned venues such as the Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce Theatre, and Asia Cultural Center (South Korea).  He began his formal dance training at Montclair State University, where he earned his B.F.A. in Dance. He’s had the pleasure of working with BARKIN/SELISSEN Project, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Jody Oberfelder, ChristinaNoel and The Creature among others. Mr. Willis has taught and performed in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and throughout North America. His teaching credits include The José Limón Dance Foundation, Montclair State University, Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Center, Seoul Tanz Studio and more. His other creative passions include composing, singing, and playing the trumpet.

Ying-Da Chen 陳穎達, a guitarist, composer from Taiwan. Considered a jazz guitarist first and foremost, his fourth album of original music came out and, again, showing that he has reached an audience beyond jazz lovers.

“A man with renaissance spirits, using modern tools.” Ying-Da continues to showcase his love for chamber music, played in the form of a jazz quartet, through his free improvisation and musical interpretation of expressionism, and his obsession with love and death as a common theme throughout his compositions has become more clear.

Before moving to New York in Sep 2021, Ying-Da studied classical music in Taipei, jazz music in Amsterdam, and performed frequently at local venues, small and major festivals, and did several tours in Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Europe. Performing and writing music had been a big part of his daily life. And of course, in his musical journey there have been dancers. In 2013, one magical semester of weekly free-improv session with graduate students at Taipei National University of the Arts opened a new window for him, a new way to feel and breath, it started to gradually change his music. Since then there have been occasional Improv sessions with dancers, mostly with groups of dancers with several males holding their instruments. In 2018, YD was chosen to perform with the Primal Chaos 混沌身響 -Dance X Sounds improvisation event held by HorseDance 驫舞劇場 in Taipei, where he performed a solo set with a solo dancer Su-Lien Lin. Being the only instrumentalist on set, he was humbled but the responsibility of moving the music forward and liberated by the freedom that came with it.

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BRIDGING A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TIME AND LANGUAGE, MEDICINAL SONGS FOR 15 MINUTES AGO IS PREPARED TO WITNESS/WELCOME NEW FEELINGS IN OUR SHARED LANGUAGE OF SONG AND STORYTELLING. AS THE WILD ANCESTORS OF THE FUTURE INDIGENOUS HIP HOP ARTIST, AND CONTEMPORARY DESCENDANTS OF ANCESTOR ARTIST-WARRIORS, MARITRI + PENELOPE WILL CLAP, GREET, HARMONIZE, AND PLAY WITHIN A 3-HOUR FRAMEWORK OF ORIGINAL SONGS.

Maritri is a Southern California native currently living in California after twenty years of being a professional musician in New York. She is a multi instrumentalist, ( piano, guitar , bass, cello and percussion), vocalist, composer ( ballet , film , theater) and educator. She has traveled the world playing and creating music. She has worked with Gladys Knight, Barbra Streisand, Meshell N’Dege Ocello Sekou  Sundiata ,  Ani Di Franco, Michael Amante, Nona Hendryx, Black Rock Coalition, Burnt Sugar Arkestra,Geri Allen, Sekou Sundiata, Corey Glover, Marcus Machado and many others. She currently leads a conglomerate of singer songwriting multi- instrumentalists called the Soulfolk Experience. Their music is available on Spotify, Apple music and youtube.

During the pandemic, she hosted a show from her home five nights a week for an hour playing originals and favorites called Reunion of Souls on facebook at facebook.com/maritrigarrett

https://www.maritri.com/

Penelope J. Armstead (they/she) is a daughter, queer artist and educator, activist, choreographer and songwriter based in Philadelphia, PA. Their most recent research in youth education has led them to write lesson plans in Hip Hop history and mindful goal setting in Camden, NJ K-12 classrooms. They have performed internationally and locally as a dance artist, including the first African-American musical theatre cast to tour Seoul, South Korea.*

In Winter 2023, Penelope will receive their C2 Certificate in Hip Hop Technique from Rennie Harris University, becoming one of the 1st historical training cohorts to align collegiate standards with the five Pillars of Hip Hop and Street Styles Culture, as mentored by North Philly legend Dr. Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris.

South Jersey bread. They are honored to live and play on Lenapehoking sacred UNCEDED land.

She enjoys visiting the library, laying in the grass, and movement freestyles on a very few special hills in Germantown, West Philly.

*DreamGirls, OD productions 2017.

https://peachkrayz.wordpress.com/medicinal_songs/

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Ryan Wolfe is a songwriter, singer, composer, and instrumentalist from Portland, OR. Since graduating from the University of Michigan he has lived in NYC where he plays for dance for Hofstra University, Princeton University, Mark Morris Dance Group, Limon Company, and Cunningham Trust, among other places. He has performed and collaborated with choreographers and dance companies such as Rebecca Lazier, Jordan Lloyd, Alice Liddell and Dancers, Grounded View, CNDC/Angers, The Lovelies, and Colin Stilwell, and Chloe London.

instagram: @ohwowitsryan

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Marie Lloyd Paspe (she/her) is a Filipina-American dance and vocal performer, choreographer, educator, and writer based in lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY. Paspe is Bessie-awarded for Outstanding Choreography for contributions to Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company's "Deep Blue Sea," 2022 Asian American Arts Alliance Jadin Wong Fellow, 2023 Gallim Moving Artist Resident, and 2024 Target Margin Theater Institute Fellow.

Her work re-roots the diasporic Asian body, focusing in harmonious belonging in ‘kapwa’ (“I and the Other are One") that exists within and juxtaposes the patrionormative space. Paspe’s work was presented in Germany, Israel, the Philippines, and China; and nationally in NYC, Boston, LA, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and Minneapolis. Features include film performance at Taikang Space (Beijing, China), resident artist at TOPAZ Arts (Queens, NYC), choreographic director for treya lam at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA). Press features include The New York Times and Fjord Review.

treya lam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose expansive and intersecting identities inform but do not define their work, whether solo or when collaborating with ensembles across a variety of disciplines. their atmospheric voice, liberation oriented songwriting and fluency on guitar, piano and looped viola recalls Nina Simone and Andrew Bird. treya’s debut Good News was created entirely by womxn and genderqueer collaborators and released via Kaki King’s label. Smithsonian Magazine states lam’s work “perfectly captures the mixture of love, loss and hope”.

lam is currently developing otherland - an audiovisual chamber-folk album and multidisciplinary ritual on healing in the wake of grief and loss, radical self acceptance, and transformation through individual and collective healing. this work is supported by NYSCA, NYC’s Women’s Fund and Joe’s Pub’s New York Voices Commission.

lam is a OneBeat fellow, NYCLU Artist Ambassador and active member of the Resistance Revival Chorus. their song Dawn was featured on the RRC’s debut album This Joy - released on Righteous Babe Records. lam has supported and shared stages with Ani DiFranco, Valerie June and Kaki King and has performed original music at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, MASS MoCA and the Newport Folk Fest.

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LARAAJI Harlem, NY multi instrumentalist , composer, recording artist, Therapeutic Laughter Teacher Educated in music theory-composition and piano at Howard University, Washington DC USA..1962-66 .performs and records stimulating new music informed by his love of dance movement, trance meditation, Visionary sound and bliss life style.. “When I’m Dancing I’m everywhere I Need To Be”

https://www.instagram.com/laraaji_official/?hl=en

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Melinda Faylor is a Filipina American pianist/composer based in New York City. Ms. Faylor weaves together dense and mercurial sound worlds using field recordings, synthesized sound and piano. As a collaborative artist, she has worked extensively with dance. Her long time interest in John Cage, in particular his aleatoric practices and extended piano techniques, led her to co-create several scores for music and dance with Loren Groenendaal and the Vervet Dance Company of Philadelphia, PA. Current projects include a solo electroacoustic album, Sari Sari Storybooks with Music (a musical setting of Filipino children's books by author Christina Newhard), a duo with violinist Gillian Rivers and her interdisciplinary theater piece MeMeMeMe. MeMeMeMe is a series of generative performances in four parts, building upon experiments with meme and emoji language through parlor games and emoji tarot card divination. She is the recipient of the Ma-Yi Theater grant (2021), NMUSA Creator Fund grant (2023) and the Queens Art Fund grant (2023).

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ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi is a composer and audiovisual artist who creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature. Using piezo microphones attached to porcelain bowls with water measurements, Maria plays and conducts the sound-objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created by sand, dry leaves, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed with modular synthesizers for added aesthetic atmosphere.

http://www.maria-takeuchi.com

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Catherine Chen is a multidisciplinary poet and performer living in Brooklyn. Their practice activates a kind of architectural writing exploring the ways they inhabit rituals of mourning, desire, and postcolonial identity making. A Lambda Literary and Poets House fellow, they have received artist support and fellowships from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Arts Center at Governors Island), Theater Mitu, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Monson Arts Center. They are the author of Beautiful Machine Woman Language (Noemi Press, 2023).

https://www.aluutte.com/

Kristina Moore is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist hailing from Phoenix and based in NYC. She has been releasing music under the moniker, “koleżanka” for several years, premiering her first LP “Place Is” via Bar/None Records in 2021. While “Place Is” was an exegesis on place and travel and a point of self-discovery, her latest release "Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes” explores the inward, the making of friends with even the unsettling states of being, and of reckoning with a self and a body. In between both records, Moore joined Foyer Red, an NYC-based art rock group, on guitar and secondary vocals. Foyer Red released “Yarn the Hours Away” via Carpark records earlier this year.

Brooklyn-based Michael Madrid is on a quest for genuine connection through music and performance art. Mixing experimental rock, orchestral sound collages, and a dash of indie flair à la The Books and The Microphones, Michael crafts soundscapes aimed at disrupting the everyday and sparking inward change. But for them, it's more than just making noise; it's about seeking catharsis, for themselves and everyone in the room. Whether drumming for the local rock trio "Mope" or pouring their soul into their own project, James World, Michael plays to stir hearts and challenge minds, all while staying grounded in a philosophy of openness and vulnerability.

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Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer, improvising musician, actor, and interdisciplinary artist. She has dedicated her practice to exploring rainbows of musical possibilities and practicing a voracious effort of artistic innovation, expression, and collaboration. She is the vocalist and co-composer for Detroit art rock band saajtak and has had the privilege of working with many people who inspire her.

With improvisation as a foundational part of her practice, she utilizes electronic processing, extended technique, and her diverse musical influences to create an explosive sound that has been called “impossibly stunning” [Stereo Stickman], “primal and futuristic at the same time” [Current Magazine] and that “bends between operatic and punk rock” [Audiofemme].

She has collaborated with musicians, visual artists, directors and dancers and toured across North America at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Jazz Festival, Joe’s Pub, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more. Her professional theater debut has been in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of Sower, for which she plays the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist. She graduated from The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2015.

She was a Teaching Artist with Ann Arbor’s University Musical Society and has conducted classes in creative singing and performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Merry Washington, and the University of Michigan. Additionally, she has taught private voice lessons at numerous performing arts organizations including Expressions Music Academy, Dance Dynamics, and Third Wave Music. Additionally, she enjoys baking fancy cakes, science fiction, hiking, and making demo videos for Red Panda Lab’s effects pedals.

https://www.alexkoimusic.com/

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Ying-Da Chen 陳穎達, a guitarist, composer from Taiwan. Considered a jazz guitarist first and foremost, his fourth album of original music came out and, again, showing that he has reached an audience beyond jazz lovers.

“A man with renaissance spirits, using modern tools.” Ying-Da continues to showcase his love for chamber music, played in the form of a jazz quartet, through his free improvisation and musical interpretation of expressionism, and his obsession with love and death as a common theme throughout his compositions has become more clear.

Before moving to New York in Sep 2021, Ying-Da studied classical music in Taipei, jazz music in Amsterdam, and performed frequently at local venues, small and major festivals, and did several tours in Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Europe. Performing and writing music had been a big part of his daily life. And of course, in his musical journey there have been dancers. In 2013, one magical semester of weekly free-improv session with graduate students at Taipei National University of the Arts opened a new window for him, a new way to feel and breath, it started to gradually change his music. Since then there have been occasional Improv sessions with dancers, mostly with groups of dancers with several males holding their instruments. In 2018, YD was chosen to perform with the Primal Chaos 混沌身響 -Dance X Sounds improvisation event held by HorseDance 驫舞劇場 in Taipei, where he performed a solo set with a solo dancer Su-Lien Lin. Being the only instrumentalist on set, he was humbled but the responsibility of moving the music forward and liberated by the freedom that came with it.

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http://www.treyamakesmusic.com

treya lam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who’s joyously complex identity informs but does not define their work, whether solo or when collaborating with a variety of multidisciplinary ensembles. their strident voice, politically charged songwriting and fluency on guitar, piano and looped viola recalls Nina Simone and Andrew Bird. treya’s debut Good News was created entirely by womxn and genderqueer collaborators and released via Kaki King’s label.

lam is a OneBeat fellow, NYCLU Artist Ambassador and active member of the Resistance Revival Chorus. their song Dawn was featured on the RRC’s debut album This Joy - released on Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records. lam has performed original music at Lincoln Center, MASS MoCA, the Prospect Park Bandshell and the American Museum of Natural History and opened for Ani Difranco, Valerie June and Kaki King.

they are currently developing otherland - an interdisciplinary grief ritual and chamber protest album that explores grief as a catalyst for radical empathy, intersectional solidarity and repairing our relationship to the earth.

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Maciej Lewandowski is a musician currently living in New York, producing music for concert, video, dance, etc. His work focuses on the capacity for sound to affect the environment/space it is being produced in some of his projects have been presented at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, NURTUREart, 67 Ludlow, Outpost Artist Resources, Panoply Performance Lab, Arts on Site. In a performing or design capacity, he has been involved in productions shown at NYU Skirball, Roulette Intermedium, Abrons Arts Center, The Hopkins Center @ Dartmouth College, National Sawdust, Gelsey Kirkland Academy, Christ Church Philadelphia, JACK, + more. 

https://www.maciej.site

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https://www.ezekielhonig.com/

Using the loop as more of a tool than a rule, Ezekiel Honig's emotively warm electronic-acoustic music nestles into a comfortable, shared space between melodic, event-driven ambient, muted techno, textural downtempo, and slowmotion house. Using these genres as reference points from which to stray, Honig uses everyday objects and spaces amidst processed instruments, tethering to our physical universe while eschewing any concerns of figurative reality. Plastic, metal, wood, and air coalesce with Rhodes, guitar, horns, and piano, creating a sound of contrast and contradiction, pairing inviting, fuzzy chords with clunky and dirty mishaps. Honig finds this sense of balance - of past and future, acoustic and digital, abstraction and concrete immediacy - by grounding himself in the idea that a sound can be a representation of infinite stories, emotions, possibilities, and simultaneously be just a sound to be used in a work of audio.

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Sugar Vendil is a composer, pianist, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking, known as Brooklyn. She started her artistic life as a classical pianist, and after spending nearly a decade searching for her own voice, her practice evolved into writing her own music and making performances that integrate sound, movement, and unconventional approaches to the piano. She writes and performs her own solo music for piano and electronics and has a keyboard/synth duo, Vanity Project, with composer Trevor Gureckis. Vendil is a proud second generation Filipinx American.

Vendil was awarded a 2022 NPN Creation Fund grant and 2021 MAPFund grant to support Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia, which is being co-commissioned by Living Arts Tulsa, High Concept Labs, and National Sawdust. Recent commissions include Simple Tasks 2 on Jennifer Koh’s Grammy-award winning album Alone Together; a Chamber Music America commission to write for The Nouveau Classical Project (2008-2021); ETHEL’s Homebaked 2019 for Unsacred Geometry, and ACF | Create to write for Box Not Found. 

Vendil loves dancing and collaborating with other makers. In September 2020, she danced in choreographer Emily Johnson/CATALYST’s The Ways We Love and The Ways We Love Better – Monumental Movement Toward Being Future Being(s) at Socrates Sculpture Park. She is part of Johnson’s Being Future Being, which showed at Bates Dance Festival and Jacob’s Pillow in July 2021, and will premiere at The Broad Stage in 2022. Vendil took part in premiering composer-saxophonist Darius Jones’ LawNOrder at The Stone and Being Caged in ICE (2018) at Roulette.

She has performed at a variety of venues, ranging from arts spaces such as BAM Fisher, Dixon Place, Knockdown Center’s Ready Room, MoMa PS1, National Sawdust, the New School’s Glassbox Theater, The Stone, and Roulette; to galleries and spaces such as The Development Gallery, Milk Studios, and Spring Studios.

Vendil is an advocate of the oxford comma, is obsessed with her cat Coco, and has an excellent memory.

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孙薇，中国青年古筝艺术家，纽约中国民族乐团首席古筝演奏家，出生于音乐世家，6岁开始古筝之旅。 古筝资深教师，中国民族器乐协会会员，国际古筝协会会员 协会。  2016年底以古筝演奏家、CBA文化艺术中心教师的身份来到美国。 她是StringsW和Miss三重奏乐队的联合创始人之一。2017年10月，StringsW在卡内基音乐厅成功举办了一场音乐会。 这场音乐会将中西乐器相结合，重新编排了中国民乐。 2020创立孙薇古筝艺术学校， 2022年3月起，出演百老汇音乐剧《金粉世家》。

Wei Sun, Young Guzheng Artist from China. Principal Guzheng player in Chinese music ensemble of New York. She was born in a musical family and started her Guzheng journey at the age of 6 .Wei is also  a certified senior teacher of Guzheng, a member of China National Instrumental Association and the International Guzheng Association. In 2016, She came to the United States as a guzheng performer and teacher at the CBA Cultural and Art Center.Since Mar. 2022, Wei has joined and played Guzheng in the Broadway Musical show 《Noble family 》She is one of the co-founder of the trio band—StringsW and Miss. In October 2017 , the ECHO theme concert was successfully held by stringsW in Carnegie Hall, combining western instruments and rearranging Chinese folk music to interpret the classics

https://weisunmusic.com

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Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer, improvising musician, actor, and interdisciplinary artist. She has dedicated her practice to exploring rainbows of musical possibilities and practicing a voracious effort of artistic innovation, expression, and collaboration. She is the vocalist and co-composer for Detroit art rock band saajtak and has had the privilege of working with many people who inspire her.

With improvisation as a foundational part of her practice, she utilizes electronic processing, extended technique, and her diverse musical influences to create an explosive sound that has been called “impossibly stunning” [Stereo Stickman], “primal and futuristic at the same time” [Current Magazine] and that “bends between operatic and punk rock” [Audiofemme].

She has collaborated with musicians, visual artists, directors and dancers and toured across North America at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Jazz Festival, Joe’s Pub, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more. Her professional theater debut has been in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of Sower, for which she plays the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist. She graduated from The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2015.

She was a Teaching Artist with Ann Arbor’s University Musical Society and has conducted classes in creative singing and performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Merry Washington, and the University of Michigan. Additionally, she has taught private voice lessons at numerous performing arts organizations including Expressions Music Academy, Dance Dynamics, and Third Wave Music. Additionally, she enjoys baking fancy cakes, science fiction, hiking, and making demo videos for Red Panda Lab’s effects pedals.

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Ran Livneh is a bass player, improviser and composer. In his music, Ran explores the relationship of tone and atmosphere over traditional musical forms, nature and abstraction.

http://www.livnehran.com

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LARAAJI Harlem, NY multi instrumentalist , composer, recording artist, Therapeutic Laughter Teacher Educated in music theory-composition and piano at Howard University, Washington DC USA..1962-66 .performs and records stimulating new music informed by his love of dance movement, trance meditation, Visionary sound and bliss life style.. “When I’m Dancing I’m everywhere I Need To Be”

http://laraaji.blogspot.com

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Yuhan Su 蘇郁涵

‘Like the best fiction, it’s entirely enveloping’ - Downbeat. Recent nominee for the DownBeat Critics Poll in the category “Rising Star” of Vibraphone, New York based Taiwanese vibraphonist Yuhan Su has been living in the US since moving to Boston in 2008 to study at Berklee. Yuhan’s three records release as a leader including City Animals(2018, Sunnyside Record), A Room of One’s Own(2015, Inner Circle Music) and Flying Alone(2012, Inner Circle Music), have received widespread approval and numerous music awards and nominations, including ‘Best Jazz Album of the Year’, ‘Best New Artist’, ’ Best Jazz Single’, ‘Best Instrumentalist Award’ from the Golden Indie Music Award and ‘Best Performance Album of the year’, ’Best Composer Award’ from the Golden Melody Award in Taiwan, and “Best Release of the Year” by All about Jazz and Downbeat. Yuhan also performed with different projects in New York including Amir Elsaffar’s Rivers of sound, Brian Krock’s Big Heart Machine, Miho Hazama’s M_Unit and Kyle Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra, Jason Yeager’s Septet, and more.

https://www.yuhansu.com

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Penelope Armstead-Williams is a performing artist who works in dance and music to create immersive experiences of mindful becoming. Her works include community building through dance within schools in New Jersey and Philadelphia, and her performance experience lies mainly in Broadway musical tours.

Sam Gonzaga, a producer, keyboardist, and songwriter based in NJ. Sam has had a strong relationship with music since a young age and is developing her musical capabilities. Writing music has been an essential part of Sam’s life, as well as collaborating with others. Through her music, Sam strives to evoke emotion and thought in those who listen.

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Ran Livneh is a bass player, improviser and composer. In his music, Ran explores the relationship of tone and atmosphere over traditional musical forms, nature and abstraction.

http://www.livnehran.com

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Ying-Da Chen 陳穎達, a guitarist, composer from Taiwan. Considered a jazz guitarist first and foremost, his fourth album of original music came out and, again, showing that he has reached an audience beyond jazz lovers.

“A man with renaissance spirits, using modern tools.” Ying-Da continues to showcase his love for chamber music, played in the form of a jazz quartet, through his free improvisation and musical interpretation of expressionism, and his obsession with love and death as a common theme throughout his compositions has become more clear.

Before moving to New York in Sep 2021, Ying-Da studied classical music in Taipei, jazz music in Amsterdam, and performed frequently at local venues, small and major festivals, and did several tours in Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Europe. Performing and writing music had been a big part of his daily life. And of course, in his musical journey there have been dancers. In 2013, one magical semester of weekly free-improv session with graduate students at Taipei National University of the Arts opened a new window for him, a new way to feel and breath, it started to gradually change his music. Since then there have been occasional Improv sessions with dancers, mostly with groups of dancers with several males holding their instruments. In 2018, YD was chosen to perform with the Primal Chaos 混沌身響 -Dance X Sounds improvisation event held by HorseDance 驫舞劇場 in Taipei, where he performed a solo set with a solo dancer Su-Lien Lin. Being the only instrumentalist on set, he was humbled but the responsibility of moving the music forward and liberated by the freedom that came with it.

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LARAAJI Harlem, NY multi instrumentalist , composer, recording artist, Therapeutic Laughter Teacher Educated in music theory-composition and piano at Howard University, Washington DC USA..1962-66 .performs and records stimulating new music informed by his love of dance movement, trance meditation, Visionary sound and bliss life style.. “When I’m Dancing I’m everywhere I Need To Be”

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https://open.spotify.com/album/3pybVMi1SyWwmpb2Ppn0F5?si=1h9JQpn3TYa2-r_yORZ7Og

Ying-Da Chen 陳穎達, a guitarist, composer from Taiwan. Considered a jazz guitarist first and foremost, his fourth album of original music came out and, again, showing that he has reached an audience beyond jazz lovers.

“A man with renaissance spirits, using modern tools.” Ying-Da continues to showcase his love for chamber music, played in the form of a jazz quartet, through his free improvisation and musical interpretation of expressionism, and his obsession with love and death as a common theme throughout his compositions has become more clear.

Before moving to New York in Sep 2021, Ying-Da studied classical music in Taipei, jazz music in Amsterdam, and performed frequently at local venues, small and major festivals, and did several tours in Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, and Europe. Performing and writing music had been a big part of his daily life. And of course, in his musical journey there have been dancers. In 2013, one magical semester of weekly free-improv session with graduate students at Taipei National University of the Arts opened a new window for him, a new way to feel and breath, it started to gradually change his music. Since then there have been occasional Improv sessions with dancers, mostly with groups of dancers with several males holding their instruments. In 2018, YD was chosen to perform with the Primal Chaos 混沌身響 -Dance X Sounds improvisation event held by HorseDance 驫舞劇場 in Taipei, where he performed a solo set with a solo dancer Su-Lien Lin. Being the only instrumentalist on set, he was humbled but the responsibility of moving the music forward and liberated by the freedom that came with it.

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Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer, improvising musician, actor, and interdisciplinary artist. She has dedicated her practice to exploring rainbows of musical possibilities and practicing a voracious effort of artistic innovation, expression, and collaboration. She is the vocalist and co-composer for Detroit art rock band saajtak and has had the privilege of working with many people who inspire her.

With improvisation as a foundational part of her practice, she utilizes electronic processing, extended technique, and her diverse musical influences to create an explosive sound that has been called “impossibly stunning” [Stereo Stickman], “primal and futuristic at the same time” [Current Magazine] and that “bends between operatic and punk rock” [Audiofemme].

She has collaborated with musicians, visual artists, directors and dancers and toured across North America at venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Jazz Festival, Joe’s Pub, Detroit Institute of Arts, and more. Her professional theater debut has been in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of Sower, for which she plays the combined role of Tracy Dunn/Jillian Gilchrist. She graduated from The University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2015.

She was a Teaching Artist with Ann Arbor’s University Musical Society and has conducted classes in creative singing and performance at Carnegie Mellon University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the University of Merry Washington, and the University of Michigan. Additionally, she has taught private voice lessons at numerous performing arts organizations including Expressions Music Academy, Dance Dynamics, and Third Wave Music. Additionally, she enjoys baking fancy cakes, science fiction, hiking, and making demo videos for Red Panda Lab’s effects pedals.

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https://www.eldarbaruch.com

Words from the musician, Eldar Baruch:

I’m Eldar, I compose music for contemporary dance, theatre, dance-films and video-art (and play with indie bands).

My musical palette is comprised of piano solos, electronic soundscapes, rhythms & grooves, abstract-organic textures, acoustic instruments & toys’ sounds.

As a mover - Contact Improvisation is a precious sphere for me; Its essence of attentiveness to self and other dance-ful partners; Its genuine intimate and fluid nature; Its encouragement to be centered and flexible at the same time. Its core which is a dialogue.
Along with the marvelous global CI community - Communicating with this unique bonding language.

As a musician, I find it a privilege to dive with my own music into a dance-ful human space, which is moving, breathing and evolving throughout this capsule of hours. To evolve with the space. To be in a dialogue. To be open.

Looking forward to be playing with you!
Eldar

You can reach Eldar via:
• Website: www.eldarbaruch.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/eldarbar/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eldarbar
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/eldarbaruch
• Email: eldarbar@gmail.com