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Monday, November 15
8pm CT
Streaming on YouTube
FREE, $10 suggested donation
Option Talks Music: Cecilia Lopez and Joe Moffett
Meet Cecilia Lopez (composer/multimedia artist) and Joe Moffett (trumpeter/improviser) who together have been collaborating since 2018 when Cecilia’s Machinic Fantasies premiered at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, NY. In their duo, they continue to explore methods of distorting, deconstructing, and merging their instruments in unconventional ways.
Caprichos (Cecilia and Joe's debut release as a duo ensemble on Tripticks Tapes) is a collection of improvised pieces for synthesizer and amplified trumpet. Brusque, mercurial, and intense, Caprichos lurches from circuit-bent gurgles to horn blasts to waves of static, making for an unpredictable listening experience.
Tune in on Monday, November 15th at 8pm Chicago time to hear the discussion, ask questions in the chat, and listen to Cecilia and Joe perform and discuss their creative ideas and background with Option curator Andrew Clinkman
The Option series is presented as part of Experimental Sound Studio’s virtual concerts every Monday. Link to this program below.
About Cecilia Lopez and Joe Moffett
Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation and the creation of sound devices and systems. Lopez holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College and an MA from Wesleyan University in composition (2016). Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (AR), Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room, Ostrava Days Festival 2011 (Ostrava, Czech Republic), MATA Festival 2012, Experimental Intermedia, Fridman Gallery (NY), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway) and the XIV Cuenca Biennial, among others. She was a Civitella Ranieri fellow in 2015 and has participated in various international residency programs.In 2019, Lopez curated the intermedia festival Folly Systems coproduced by Roulette Intermedium and Outpost Artists Resources that featured 11 international artists. Collaborators include Carmen Baliero, Aki Onda, Brandon Lopez, John Driscoll, Carrie Schneider, Joe Moffett and Lars Laumann among others.
Joe Moffett approaches his work with a keen interest in unconventional sounds and forms, collective improvisation, and the intersection of action and stillness. He is a co-founder of ambient improv trio Earth Tongues with Carlo Costa and Dan Peck and collaborates regularly with artists such as Henry Fraser, Cecilia Lopez, Sam Weinberg, Tania Chen and Zach Rowden, in addition to performing frequently as a solo artist. He has also performed compositions by Cecilia Lopez (Machinic Fantasies, Dos (tres)), Carlo Costa (Strata), Frantz Loriot (Echo from the Frantz Loriot Systematic Distortion Orchestra) and Yoshi Wada (Earth Horns with Electric Drone). His recorded material appears on Neither/Nor, Underwolf, Eh?, NotTwo, Tubapede and Prom Night Records.