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Biophony 1.10

08/29/2021 / 2pm / Maria Hernandez Park

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Weston Olencki
Weston Olencki

Weston Olencki is a musician, composer, and sound artist. Weston is currently making work centered around questions of instrumental music and its contexts/constructs, various mediated practices of listening and improvisation, and the technological, material, and cultural histories of rural space/time…

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Henry Mermer
Henry Mermer

Henry Mermer (b. 1999) is a drummer, improviser, and composer of instrumental and electronic music currently based in Ridgewood, Queens. As a collaborator and improviser, he has performed at venues including The Stone, The Jazz Gallery, The Blue Note, happylucky no. 1, Spectrum NYC, Public Records, and The Bar Next Door…

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David Leon
David Leon

Performing on alto saxophone, alto flute, and soprano saxophone, David Leon leads the ensemble. In his compositions and woodwind playing alike, he explores the use of alternate timbres and the ways in which those sounds can combine to generate new hybrids…

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Lesley Mok
Lesley Mok

Informed by Afrological principles of drum ensemble playing, Lesley Mok performs on a percussion kit assembled especially for the ensemble. She combines bongos, cowbells, temple blocks, cymbals, and floor tom, and employs diverse performance techniques to produce a dynamic range of timbres and orchestrations. A true experimentalist, she has been mentored by Vijay Iyer, Henry Threadgill, Danilo Perez, Terri Lyne Carrington, and others.

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