Roulette: Lesley Mok & Aliya Ultan: a bird in its chest
Free (Online: Free | In person: $20 ($25 at the door))
- Aliya Ultan, cello
- Joanna Mattrey, viola
- Cleek Schrey, violin
- David Leon, woodwinds
- Yuma Uesaka, saxophone
Commissioned artist Lesley Mok returns to Roulette with the world premiere of new work for ensemble.
In collaboration with cellist-composer Aliya Ultan and aerialists Teddy Ment, Eleanor Getz, and Copper Santiago, a bird in its chest is a reflection on love: young, unrequited, unconditional, enduring, and self-love. Shaped by ideas of supernatural grace, phantom wishes, ephemeral passions, and crazed disillusionment, this collaboration has emerged out of a desire to understand the expansiveness of love beyond its familiar expressions.
They are joined by musicians Joanna Mattrey, Cleek Schrey, David Leon, and Yuma Uesaka.
COVID-19 Protocols: Proof of vaccination will be required to attend this performance.
About Aliya Ultan, cello
As a classically trained musician turned free improviser, Aliya's sound is particularly unique as it presents contrasting styles, ideas, and approaches to the instrument resulting in a kind of maximalist minimalism, energy-based music. Her playing reads as both playful and cathartic through her physicality and use of preparations such as fishing line, glass, aluminum, chains, and more.
http://aliyaultan.com/