Saturday, September 13
1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, Music 8PM
Admission: $15 suggested donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Alex Koi x Kirin McElwain
Let's Fight!
The music of vocalist Alex Koi and cellist Kirin McElwain embodies synthesis of acoustic and electronic music, as well as composition and improvisation. Individually, we've performed with the likes of Mary Halvorson, This Will Destroy You, Trevor Dunn [Mr. Bungle, John Zorn, etc.], Post Malone, and Shara Nova to name a few.
Alex Koi is a vocalist, composer/producer, and improvising musician. Her music is the mystical translation between the privacy of her inner world and the somatic extrication of such. Through polyphonic narrative, ecstatic release, and coy murmurs, she bends between her diverse musical influences in the avant-garde, opera, Jazz, and electronic music. She is the vocalist and co-composer of saajtak, called “one of the most intriguing and unclassifiable bands in the country right now” [Tone Madison]. 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].
Kirin McElwain is a cellist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer working in the realms of experimental, improvised, contemporary classical, and popular music. In her own sound and compositional practice, she uses cello, modular synthesizer, and voice to explore the tension between formal structure and chaos, western classical harmony and noise, and ideas of “goodness” and “correctness.
Her self-released debut EP, Viriditas, received praise from Foxy Digitalis and A Closer Listen, and received play on Electric Rabbit Radio Hour. In May of 2023, Kirin completed a residency at Elektron Musikstudion (Stockholm, SE) working with the halldorophone and Buchla 200 system to generate new material for a future solo release. She is currently working on her first full-length solo release.
https://www.alexkoimusic.com/alex-koi-x-kirin-mcelwain
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Marzi Margo is a writer, musician, and artist living in Cleveland, Ohio. They have been making solo experimental music under the name Let's Fight! since 2006 and collaborating with their partner Jayce Renner in the improvisational noise duo Elderberry Industries since 2022.