Kim Nucci
Lula Asplund
The Elastro Series is back for a Sunday night of electroacoustic music from Kim Nucci and Lula Asplund. Support TBA
Kim Nucci
Kim Nucci is an Oakland-based media artist, composer, and technologist. As a musician, they perform on electronics, modular synthesizer, and saxophones. As a visual and sound artist, they create interactive installations using architectural interventions, sculpture, arduino and other microcontrollers, idiosyncratic interactive design, painting and projections. They also VJ, and create generative and audio-reactive video art for live musical performance. Nucci's research interests explore the pedestrian cybernetic body through critically examining our relationship with technology and with our instruments. Their solo performance practice is invested in the exploration of ritualism and trance states in improvisation.
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Lula Asplund
Lula Asplund is a multimedia/sound artist currently based in Chicago. Their work involves an earnest approach to playfulness with sound as an ever flowing raw material, viewing performances as conversations with existing sound which is tangible and intimate. Through vocal processing, tape, handmade electronics and gestural controllers they weave in and out of song form through ambient noise and texture in an effort to isolate and expose certain processes behind music. They are also interested in the poetics of feedback systems and an impulse to amplify an underlying and ghostly chaos within sound. Asplund first started playing music in an improvisatory freak folk duo which formed in the Bay Area. The duo, JMP, expanded on songform with two voices, two acoustic guitars prepared with objects, and handmade electronics. This project toured the West Coast, Mexico, and was invited to present work at HÁTÍÐNI Arts Festival in Iceland. Asplund’s background is also distinguished by their studies at Mills College, where they worked with Laetitia Sonami, Zeena Parkins, William Winant, Maggi Payne and James Fei. They currently live and work in Chicago while pursuing an MFA in Sound from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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