Saturday, June 14
Calicchia Gallery Studio, 1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, Music 8PM
Admission: $15 suggested donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
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.
For this audiovisual performance, MSHR has designed a digital system that links visual and sonic parameters using open-source software. The duo improvises with the system via a handmade sculptural interface to unfold a series of compositions for video projection and four-channel sound. The result is a kind of live cinema in which visual and sonic shapes mutate through mutual interaction, guided by the players.
https://mshr.info/NetworkEntity
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Staring Contest
Staring Contest: Leia Hohenfeld and Ben Gmetro have been Cleveland-based multi-instrumental collaborators for over 20 years, crafting a musical partnership defined by versatility and experimentation. Their work spans a wide range of genres, often blending acoustic and electronic textures into immersive soundscapes. For this performance, they’ll be incorporating a range of analog and digital synthesizers alongside Leia’s original invention—the music box horn—a hand-cranked device that filters delicate melodies through a resonant brass bell. The result is an intimate, exploratory set that plays at the edge of nostalgia, noise, and dreamlike improvisation.
https://anteater.bandcamp.com/ https://leiahohenfeld.bandcamp.com/