Audio
Recent Performances
U.S. Girls @ Artisphere 06.11.11
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Audrey Chen @ Pyramid Atlantic 04.10.11
AUDREY CHEN is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic. Now, using the cello, voice and analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of a homemade analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language. Recently, her primary focus has been her SOLO project but she is also involved in many various collaborations.
myspace.com/audreychen
Mia Zabelka @ Pyramid Atlantic 02.05.11
Mia Zabelka is a composer, electric violinist and vocalist from Vienna, with czech, jewish and french familiar background who lives in the Austrian region of southern Styria. As a pioneer of electro-acoustic performance and composition in Austria, Mia Zabelka developed the process she describes as automatic playing, continuously exploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back the boundaries in radical and provocative performances and compositions that question established notions and given structures.
Recorded live at Pyramid Atlantic February 5, 2026
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Samita Sinha @ Pyramid Atlantic 01.23.11
Samita Sinha is an artist and vocalist/ composer based in New York. She combines tradition with experiment to create new forms, drawing from a deep grounding in North Indian classical music, a contemporary vocabulary, folk and ritual music, and songs and texts in several languages. Her work reconfigures given inheritances, and combines raw, visceral energy with knowledge garnered from classical tradition. As a composer/ performer and improviser, Sinha uses her voice as her primary instrument, along with tanpura and analog and digital electronics. She has performed her solo and ensemble work at PS 1, Roulette, Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, Blue Note, and Issue Project Room, at universities such as UC Berkeley, NYU, Macalaster College, and St. Olaf, as well as abroad in India and the Middle East. Sinha also performs with ANATOMY, a duo Hindustani/ jazz groove-heavy electronic music project with Marc Cary, and uses her voice as an improvising instrument in jazz ensembles including Marc Cary’s FOCUS and Sunny Jain Collective. She has received awards from NYSCA and Urban Artists Initiative to create and compose new works, from Queens Council on the Arts for community music work, and from the Fulbright Foundation to study Hindustani music in India.
This performance was recorded live at Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, Maryland on January 23, 2011. Presented by DC Sonic Circuits.
samitasinha.com
Use Other Door @ Pyramid Atlantic 12.19.10
USE OTHER DOOR (Dzmitry Zhykh, Veranika Hryn) is an experimental duo from The Republic of Belarus who currently reside in the United States. "You can never step in the same river twice... but at least you can record it"--- the main conception of what we do. We make music using analogue circuitries, synthesizers, radiowaves, squeaky toys, voices, self-made instruments, lots of experiments.
myspace.com/useotherdoor