MIXOLOGY: Lea Bertucci + Matt Robidoux
$25 advance, $30 at the door, $20 student/senior 65+ with ID
A double bill featuring composer/performer Lea Bertucci and Bay Area-based electronic musician Matt Robidoux.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
About Lea Bertucci
Lea Bertucci is an experimental musician, composer, and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance through electroacoustic tactics. She has performed in the United States at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gagosian, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, and the Walker Art Center, and internationally at Tempo Reale, Florence; Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; ReWire Festival, the Hague; Borderline Festival, Athens; and Unsound Festival, Krakow. Artist residencies include MacDowell, ISSUE Project Room, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
http://lea-bertucci.comAbout Matt Robidoux
Matt Robidoux is a San Francisco-based composer, improviser, educator, and community organizer interested in the convergence of movement and sound as it relates to free improvisation, accessibility, and the communicative capacities of sonic energy. Their primary instrument is the "corn synth"—(kinetically operated randomness network) a modular system that interprets physical input from two “ears of corn” sculptures cast in aluminum.
In 2017 Matt established the Adaptive Instrument Ensemble (AIE), a community-based practice focused on expanding the improvising community across abilities, demographics, and geographies. Beginning with a pilot workshop in 2019, Robidoux founded the Prepared Guitar Ensemble in collaboration with Creativity Explored, a studio-based collective that partners with people with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us.
Matt has collaborated with Creativity Explored, Del Sol Quartet, Sudhu Tewari, Jean Carla Rodea, Gerald Cleaver, Sudhu Tewari, Eclipse Quartet, Daniel Schmidt, Henry Kaiser, William Winant, Jaap Blonk, Stuart Dempster, Laura Steenberge, Sunburned Hand of the Man, gabby fluke-mogul, Anla Courtis (Reynols), and J Mascis.
They hold a MA in music composition from Mills College, where they studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, Laetitia Sonami, John Bischoff, James Fei, David Bernstein, and Daniel Schmidt. Matt's writing on the Adaptive Instrument Ensemble (AIE) will be published as a chapter in Improvising across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument forthcoming via University of Michigan Press in 2024.
Matt has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan and has work available on Crash Symbols, Already Dead Tapes, Shhpuma, Null Zone, Feeding Tube Records, Mystra, Exploding In Sound, Ydlmier, and Carpark Records.
https://www.mattrobidoux.com/