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Flame Keepers 104: ARO

Flame Keepers 104: ARO

 

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ARO

October 30th, 2023

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ARO (Ariel Invernizzi Oviedo) es argentino nacido en Cuba en 1989. Baterista, artista sonoro electrónico y compositor. Intérprete y performer. Guionista y realizador audiovisual.

Como músico se formó en distintas carreras de Buenos Aires vinculadas a la improvisación, el jazz, la composición y el arte sonoro. Participa activamente de la escena de música experimental de Buenos Aires, y colabora desde la investigación y creación con diversas disciplinas escénicas. Su búsqueda sonora se sitúa entre los tejidos de la improvisación y la composición en vínculo con el noise, la música contemporánea y la electrónica actual. Desarrolla obras y dispositivos a través de técnicas extendidas en instrumentos, procesos de audio electrónicos, y síntesis sonora digital.

ARO (Ariel Invernizzi Oviedo) is an Argentinian born in Cuba in 1989. Drummer, electronic sound artist, and composer. Performer. Screenwriter and audiovisual artist.

As a musician, his paths have been formed through traversing unique areas of the Buenos Aires music scene including improvisation, jazz, composition, and sound art. He actively participates in the experimental music scene in Buenos Aires and contributes to the investigation and creation of diverse disciplines. His musical explorations situate themselves within threads of improvisation and composition intertwined with noise, contemporary music, and modern electronics. He develops works and tools through extended instrumental techniques, electronic audio processes, and digital sound synthesis.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 103: Uchi

Flame Keepers 103: Uchi

 

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Uchi

October 23rd, 2023

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Uchi is a sound improviser based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She participates in projects as a technical and artistic assistant and works as an Operator and Sound Technician (for dance, theater, live music works). She also works as a web developer and as a member of the Expresión Corporal subject at UNA.

She is currently completing her thesis to obtain a Bachelor's Degree in Choreographic Composition, UNA. She also trained in UNA Electroacoustic Composition, took the Composition workshop taught by Ricardo Capellano, and has studied Frontend Development (ReactJS) and programming languages like Python and C#.

She continues her self-taught training in visual arts with Max/Msp as well as dedicating time to researching the possible outcomes of coupling processing.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 102: Kabir Adhiya-Kumar

Flame Keepers 102: Kabir Adhiya-Kumar

 

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Kabir Adhiya-Kumar

October 16th, 2023

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Kabir Adhiya-Kumar is a 23-year-old drummer/producer from Washington Heights. The NYC native has been gigging in his city almost his entire life, with weekly shows ranging from free improvised music and indie rock, all the way to hyper-pop.

Over the past two years, he’s performed and/or recorded with over 40 different bands, produced for up-and-coming rappers, and has begun work at the International Student Center, as a Senior Communications Supervisor. In 2022, Kabir graduated from the esteemed New England Conservatory of Music, where he was mentored by drumming greats like Billy Hart and Nasheet Waits.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 101: Los Amantes de lo Ajeno

Flame Keepers 101: Los Amantes de lo Ajeno

 

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Los Amantes de lo Ajeno

October 9th, 2023

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"Los Amantes de lo Ajeno" is a project designed to challenge prevailing ideas about musical originality and to critique a self-focused approach to music appreciation. Primarily rooted in field recordings, it seeks to uncover the musicality and beauty in daily interactions, ranging from natural settings to urban centers.

Everything around us offers a chance to listen and appreciate. As humans, we are part of the fabric of nature. Therefore, this is an invitation to attune ourselves not only to our inner sounds but also to the many others surrounding us.

https://instagram.com/amantesajenos?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 100: Chatterbox

Flame Keepers 100: Chatterbox

 

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Chatterbox

October 2nd, 2023

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Chatterbox is a Brooklyn-based crunchy-pop vocal trio consisting of Jolee Gordon, Priya Carlberg and Isabel Crespo Pardo. Twisting and bending and humming and screeching, their songs are like yanking that tiny thread hanging off of your shirt and watching it all unravel.

All members are composers in their own right, informed by the creative music tradition, punk, indie, electronic music, etc. Chatterbox takes commissions as well and performs works by Frank Carlberg, Steven Long, Lily Honigberg, Ben Katz, & Shane Simpson.

https://www.instagram.com/chatttttterbox/

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 99: Violeta García

Flame Keepers 99: Violeta García

 

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Violeta García

September 25th, 2023

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Violeta García (1990) is a cellist, composer and curator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied at the “Conservatory Astor Piazolla”. She graduated in Composition at “Conservatory Manuel de Falla” with Ricardo Capellano and she has a Degree on Musical Arts specializing in violoncello at “Universidad Nacional of Arts (U.N.A)”. She is currently based in Bern, Switzerland doing a Master in Composition at the University of the Arts Bern (HKB Hochschule der Künste Bern).

She is a performer in many art forms, including free improvisation, contemporary and trans-media experimental repertoire in violoncello and electronic music. In 2015 she founded a digital label and music series called TVL-REC, which is devoted to publishing new music, experimental groups and collectives from Latin America and other countries and making music series and festivals of noise and extreme music in Latin America and Europe.

She has collaborated with different artists from all over the world as: Uri Caine, Tristan Honsinger, Tony Malaby Quartet, Hank Roberts, Jacques Morelembaum, Stanimir Todorov, Jorge Perez Tedesco, Brandon Lopez, Chris Pitsiokos, Weasel Walter, Joelle Leandre, Leila Bordrieul, Dasom Baek, Tamio Shiraishi, Carlos Quebrada, Camilo Angeles, Camila Nebbia, Emilie Girad Charest, among others.

She has worked in various companies and ensembles: Compañía Nacional de Danza Contemporary from Buenos Aires, Reverso theater company from Uruguay, Dominga Tango & the ensemble Nicotina es Primavera. She played at Fusion Festival (GE), Spielact festival (CH), Welcome to the Village Festival (NL), Valkhof Festival (NL), Norðanpaunk Festival (ISL), Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (BEL), KEXP (US), CCK (ARG), Gran Teatro Nacional (PE), Universidad de los Andes (COL), WORM (NL), among others.

She has participated in internacional residencies: Art Omi (NYC), Konvent Zero (ESP), Art Basel in Faena Art Center (ARG), Fondo Nacional de las Artes (ARG), Fundación Williams, Ibermusicas, Artists in Residency at Jazz Festival in Lima, Perú, among others.

She tours annually playing a repertoire of current contemporary music, solo set, free improvisation and with several projects (Blanco Teta, Tortuga Alada, duo whit Chris Pitsiokos, duo with Camilo Angeles...)

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 98: David Leon

Flame Keepers 98: David Leon

 

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David Leon

September 18th, 2023

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David Leon is a Miami-born saxophonist, woodwinds player, composer, and improviser living in Brooklyn, New York. His work is guided by a persistent search for vitality through autonomy, contradiction, hyperbole, and humor. His work with the saxophone investigates alternate methods for producing a tone, refinement of these techniques, and development of a distinct vocabulary using these sounds; he melds this timbral approach with melodic and rhythmic phrasing from Cuban folkloric traditions, narrative playing, Free Jazz & avant-garde esthetics, and microtonality to reveal a personal conceit.

David's current projects include Bird's Eye, a trio with Doyeon Kim and Lesley Mok which will release its first recording this March 8, 2024 on Pyroclastic Records, and a double horns-guitars-percussion trio co-led with Adam O’Farrill, Locomotive. He is a core member of multiple ensembles including Lisa Hoppe’s Third Reality, Lesley Mok: The Living Collection, Adam O’Farrill’s For These Streets & Bird Blown Out of Latitude, William Brittelle MetaSimulacrum, Vicente Hansen’s Orlando Furioso, Tal Yahalom Quintet, Aaron Quinn’s Sunchoke, and others.

His debut album, Aire de Agua (released August 2021 on Out of Your Head Records) has been praised as “a splendid debut from a young saxophone player who, starting with the right foot, promises to make a name for himself in the creative jazz scene” (Felipe Freitas, JazzTrail). He has also released two albums in the Current Obsession series that documents improvisations with current collaborators. In addition to his work as a composer and performer, David is interested in exploring irony and dissonance through puppetry and other mediums. These explorations will be documented in his upcoming performance as a Roulette 2024 Jerome Commission artist at Roulette Intermedium.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 97: Ariel Vera

Flame Keepers 97: Ariel Vera

 

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Ariel Vera

September 11th, 2023

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Ariel Vera is a vocalist, improviser, composer and rapper from Brooklyn, NY. Ariel’s music is a direct result of her processing and reaction to her daily life, relationships, environment, and personal growth. By infusing her eclectic work with various elements of popular music and free improvisation, Ariel aims to attract a diverse audience. She is committed to making her music relatable and accessible despite its oddities. Alongside her debut collaboration with drinkabir, other projects Ariel has on the forefront include avant-pop drum-voice duo PuriKoko, creative music collective ETM, and her solo recording project: eriomarie.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 96: Maga Clavijo

Flame Keepers 96: Maga Clavijo

 

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Maga Clavijo

September 4th, 2023

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(b. 1994) Maga Clavijo is a musician, composer and sound artist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a violinist and sound designer she focuses her work around noise (analog and digital), theater, poetry and performance. She explores the dialogues between light, sound and movement.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 95: David Mirarchi

Flame Keepers 95: David Mirarchi

 

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David Mirarchi

August 28, 2023

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(b. 1996) David Mirarchi is a Queens-based saxophonist, composer, and poet from Peckville, Pennsylvania. David's artistic practice aims to combine his ever-developing process of manipulating written word-- mainly in the form of poetry-- into melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and structural materials, with a deep love for unrestricted improvisation. Throughout the course of his education, David has studied with luminaries of the New York Jazz and Improvised music scenes, including David Bixler, Jason Rigby, Ed Neumeister, David Liebman, Tony Malaby, and Gary Smulyan. In 2021 David was named a Fellow of the Ravinia Steans Music institute, lead by Steve Wilson, Billy Childs, and Rufus Reid. In 2023, David received an honorable mention in the Herb Alpert Young Jazz composers awards for his 2023 recording Ink Folly Orchid Gleam (Unbroken Sounds).

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 94: Griffin Brown

Flame Keepers 94: Griffin Brown

 

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Griffin Brown

August 21, 2023

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Griffin Brown is a composer, poet, drummer, songwriter+vocalist, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and photographer. Described by The Wire as “impressive” and “original,” his music has been featured at venues and festivals throughout the US, EU, and Canada. His poems appear in The Paris Review, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Prelude, and elsewhere.

His sonic work has been premiered and commissioned by the S.E.M. Ensemble, Opera Elect, and YCBA, among others, and he collaborates with a range of established and emerging international luminaries across genres—both onstage and off.

Griffin studied composition and poetry at Yale, who awarded him the Clapp Fellowship in Poetry.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 93: Ivan Klomp

Flame Keepers 93: Ivan Klomp

 

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Ivan Klomp

August 14, 2023

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Ivan Klomp is an Argentinian producer, percussionist, and educator. Starting on the drums at age 13, he has studied symphonic percussion, musical production, and improvisation and currently works as an audiovisual music producer. He has a solo set titled "Magiclick" in which he plays drums, triggers samples, and manipulates synths simultaneously, and is also the drummer for various artists in the Buenos Aires music scene.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 92: Marté

Flame Keepers 92: Marté

 

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Marté

August 7, 2023

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Marté is a non-binary Argentinian composer, electronic artist, and visual artist based in Buenos Aires. They explore the creation of abstract and emotive atmospheres generated through FM synthesis and the use of pop influenced micromelodies, creating through their compositions small sonic stories. Her musical production falls within the worlds of ambient and sound + timbral design.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 91: Abbie from Mars

Flame Keepers 91: Abbie from Mars

 

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Abbie from Mars

July 31, 2023

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Abbie is from Mars (PA). Based in New York City since 2020, she makes and performs experimental pop music with a penchant for improvisation, noise, and performance art. Her act is unique for incorporating electroacoustic tap dance with processing in Max/MSP between raw, impassioned, highly physical performances of her songs. Abbie plays regularly in NYC and has also toured in California, the Midwest, and Canada. She has performed at cultural institutions including Elastic Arts; Stanford University’s CCRMA Stage; Joe’s Pub, a Program of The Public Theater; and National Sawdust. A champion of the underground, Abbie is the host of RadioActivity, a weekly radio show at freeform station WFMU.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 90: Ivan Decoud

Flame Keepers 90: Ivan Decoud

 

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Ivan Decoud

July 24, 2023

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Ivan Decoud is a trombonist and visual artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Focusing on the intersections of improvised music, composition, physical processes of instruments, noise, movement and electronics, Daniel explores the diversity of sound and technique in diverse contexts. With a passion for media, nature, and technology, Daniel has created a large body of experimental work that evokes both human instinct and industrial innovation. Daniel continues to research ways in which he can deconstruct instrumental functions to find an individual identity as a soloist, collaborator, and sideman.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 89: Ben Garnett

Flame Keepers 89: Ben Garnett

 

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Ben Garnett

July 17, 2023

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Ben Garnett is a Nashville-based acoustic guitarist & composer interested in possibility, composition, and connection. After majoring in jazz guitar performance (2016) at the renowned University of North Texas, Garnett moved into the world of contemporary American acoustic music, where he’s since made his home as an internationally touring artist.

In March 2023, Garnett released his debut solo LP “Imitation Fields” produced by Chris Eldridge (guitarist of the band Punch Brothers), on Padiddle Records. Described as a “vivid dreamscape of acoustic immediacy and electronic fantasy,” the album has since been written about in Premier Guitar, and has received recognition across the acoustic world. Acclaimed acoustic guitarist Bryan Sutton calls the work “…a beautiful record. Songs that are modern and musical, bringing out the best in every musician involved. I’ll be listening to this for a long time.”

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 88: The Growth Eternal

Flame Keepers 88: The Growth Eternal

 

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The Growth Eternal

July 10, 2023

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The Growth Eternal is the primary creative project of Tulsa-born, LA-based multi-instrumentalist ghalani. Conceived in 2018 as a necessary expressive outlet following years of rigorous jazz bass guitar study, the Growth Eternal (true to its name) provides ghalani with the consecrated space to intuit, evolve, and explore beyond the confines of genre and influence, operating, all the while, with humility and intention— a state akin to the Buddhist Shoshin (“beginner’s mind”).

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 87: Isabel Crespo Pardo

Flame Keepers 87: Isabel Crespo Pardo

 

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Isabel Crespo Pardo

July 3, 2023

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Isabel Crespo Pardo (they/them) is a NYC-based latinx vocalist, improviser-composer, and interdisciplinary artist. Rooted in conceptual clarity, their work actively entangles music, visual art, text and performance, always evolving to reflect the intra/interpersonal spaces they inhabit. Reveling in soft chaos, they embrace openness and specificity to create poetic work(s). More info »

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 86: Lester St. Louis

Flame Keepers 86: Lester St. Louis

 

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Lester St. Louis

June 26, 2023

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Lester St. Louis (b.1993) is a New York born and based Composer, Improviser, Cellist, Sound Designer and Curator. His work traverses through performance, installation, curation, artistic research and recording. His works are rooted in dynamic environments of improvisation both sonically and socially, ecstatic sound worlds. flow and interaction.  He has performed internationally throughout The U.S, The E.U, Canada, China and in South America; and collaborates with artists such as Chris Williams [under the moniker HxH],  Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die, Ben Lamar Gay, Yaeji, Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, Miho Hatori, Dré A. Hočevar, Charmaine Lee, Isabel Crespo Pardo, TAK Ensemble, Random International, Irreversible Entanglements, Superblue, Terence Nance, Found Sound Nation, Wet Ink Ensemble and many more. As a composer, Lester has been commissioned by artists such as The JACK Quartet, RAGE THORMBONES, Jennifer Koh, String noise and Ghost Ensemble among others.

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 85: Guido Kohn

Flame Keepers 85: Guido Kohn

 

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Guido Kohn

June 19, 2023

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Guido Kohn works with the sonic possibilities between instrument, preparations, digitallity and analogue effects. Raised in Buenos Aires, now based in Berlin, he considers himself an “expanded strings player”: classical education as a cellist first, later developed a fixation on the electric bass, eventually started playing electronic devices and no-input pedals. His performances are usually centered on improvisation, with experimental and noise aesthetics. He presents himself either solo or in diverse constellations, both stable (“El Segundo Es Terrible”, duet with Sofia Salvo, the trio with Edith Steyer and Samuel Hall, “Müller’s Revenge” with Dr. Nexus, Marcello Busato Utku Tavil, Isabel Rösler and Antti Virtaranta, as examples) and also inedit formations. As well, he is half of the LatinElectroPunk group Las Migrañas.

 
 
 

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