Evelyn Saylor with Nina Guo

solo electronics and vocal duos

Evelyn Saylor, solo for voice and electronics

Evelyn Saylor (voice) & Nina Guo (voice) perform duos by Saylor & Lane, Guo & Brandner, and Evelyn Saylor.

March 30 | Doors 20:00 | Concert 20:30
Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin

Program:

Evelyn Saylor, solo for voice and electronics
Evelyn Saylor & Rebecca Lane, Change Patterns No. 2
Nina Guo & Leonie Brandner, MOSSOPERA
Evelyn Saylor, new work for two voices

Evelyn Saylor (voice) & Nina Guo (voice)

EVELYN SAYLOR is a composer and performer who finds arresting sounds in unexpected places and explores their materiality and sonic properties in through close recording and electronic manipulation. Found and created instruments, synthesis, processing, field recordings, and the human voice play a large role in her music.

As a vocalist she performs contemporary, pop, classical, experimental, and microtonal music, and she is deeply involved in the American Sacred Harp tradition, or shape note singing. She has toured with the band Dear Reader and has collaborated and performed with Caterina Barbieri, appearing on her albums Ecstatic Computations and Fantas Variations. She has also collaborated as a vocalist and arranger with Holly Herndon and sung microtonal works by Stine Janvin, Abigail Toll, Catherine Lamb, and Marc Sabat.

www.evelynsaylor.com

NINA GUO is a high soprano who is interested in the sounds and music of recent and ongoing times. Her performance practice includes interpreting notated music, improvising, and collaborating on interdisciplinary projects. Radio and humor play large roles in her work. She is also fond of the duo unit, with projects including Departure Duo (with Eddie Kass, contrabass) and Nina & Auguste (with Auguste Vickunaite, tape recorders).

www.facesound.org