Experimental Electronic Music Encounters

Kerrtih Livengood and Richard Garet

Saturday, August 31st

8pm

Soundweaving techno-wizard Kerrith Livengood will present several shimmering chains of sounds to delight and tantalize you. Her musical language evokes the classic sounds of analog synths, the vastness of the echoing cosmos, and the glitter of ‘90s anime magical girls. “punish me with love” from her 2024 album In The Name of the MOON summons the spirit of Sailor Venus, represented by AM distortion and erratic noise injected into a shifting field of white noise. Following that, she will make a whole lot of blips and bloops and some fluting with live processing, and you will be astounded at her musical inventiveness and humorous versatility.

Richard Garet's approach to working with sound focuses on interacting with materials' sonic properties as both source and instrument. Such materials are amplified EMF emissions, modified audiocassettes, dysfunctional tape players, circuit boards, sonification of light, and computer processing, among other explorations and with no particular hierarchy. Over the years, his work has evolved from laptop playing to a more active hands-on approach by embracing tactile malleability and establishing durational concrete methods and less digital playback.