Matt Sargen & Joe Hall w/ Lihuen Sirvent Wild Gone Girls
Sept 19th
Matt Sargent (guitar) & Joe Hall (poetry)
w/
Lihuen Sirvent
Wild Gone Girls
8:00 PM
$10
30D Essex Street
Bios:
Matt Sargent is a composer, guitarist, and recording engineer based in New York, where he is an assistant professor of music at Bard College. A versatile artist with an international reputation for his prolific musical life on the concert stage and in the recording studio, Sargent’s music has been described as “remarkable from all angles.” (Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine)
Joe Hall is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Fugue & Strike (2023) and Someone’s Utopia(2018). With Chad Hardy, he co-authored The Container Store Vols I & II (2012). With Cheryl Quimba, he co-authored the chapbook May I Softly Walk (2014). His next book, Fugue & Strike, is forthcoming in 2023. Hall has performed and delivered talks nationally at universities, living rooms, squats, and/or rivers in most of the 50 states as well as Canada and Washington, DC. He participates in Hostile Books, a publishing collective dedicated to radical materiality, with Ryan Kaveh Sheldon and Angela Veronica Wong
Lihuen Sirvent is an Argentinian composer and flutist currently based in Buffalo, New York. She has participated in several music festivals such as June in Buffalo (US), Impuls (Austria), SoundSCAPE (Italy), and Barcelona Modern (Spain), among others. Her compositions have been featured in these international settings, where she has had the opportunity to collaborate with leading musicians, such as the [Switch~Ensemble] and the Arditti Quartet. Since 2022, she has been working on experimental lutherie projects by designing and constructing or electroacoustically modifying musical instruments, with the goal of reconfiguring the boundaries of the tools used for music making.
Wild Gone Girls is a collaboration between Dr. Hamburger (video) and Martin Freeman (audio) started in Rochester in the early 2010s incorporating unpredictable feedback systems, found footage, amplified pinball machines and sketchy performance tactics.