Emily Hay Live
…with Mongo Sondo & Counterfeit Circus…
A 31st Annual Twin Rivers Media Festival Film and Music Event
Join us for an experimental music concert at Flood Gallery, featuring Emily Hay!
Flutist Emily Hay’s performances blend unconventional sounds, classic instruments, & vocals into unpredictable sonic landscapes. Mongo Sondo creates experimental music with rewired/self-built/repurposed instruments, toys and gadgets, while Counterfeit Circus weaves together film, spoken word poetry, & storytelling with an array of synthesizers and unusual instruments.
More about Emily Hay:
Emily Hay is a flutist (C flute, alto flute, bass flute and piccolo) and a vocalist (soprano and extended techniques) whose musical language reaches beyond the traditional roles and capabilities of her instruments by combining the complexity of contemporary electronics with the spontaneity of free improvisation. The result is startling interpretations of sound and intense ensemble interaction. Her vibrant musical explorations embody unusual tone colors and soaring rhythmic structures, often augmented by electronically generated effects and overlapped by unusual vocalizations ranging from the primal to operatic, exploding with humorous stories, disturbing lyrics, harsh vamps and shocking noises that arise from the stream of consciousness.
Recently relocated from So. California to the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina (USA), Hay remains an active member of the ‘experimental left’ music communities and has performed in avant garde, art rock, free improvisation, electro-acoustical and contemporary ensembles such as HayFever, Polarity Taskmasters, U Totem, The Motor Totemist Guild, The 5 UU’s , Otherparts, I Am Umbrella, Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra, The Emily Hay Collective, The Rich West Ensemble, The Jeff Kaiser Okodektet and The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. Recordings of her work have been released independently as well as by Cuneiform Records, Recommended Records, Nine Winds, Meta, pfMentum, Public Eyesore and Dragnet Records. She has toured and performed extensively with concert highlights at the Bimhuis/Amsterdam, the Stone/NYC, the Ottomat/Italy, Rhizome/Washington D.C., New Music America Festival/Montreal, Timucua Arts Foundation/Orlando, Art Rock Festival/Frankfurt, Open Gate Music Series/Los Angeles, Static Age Records/Asheville, Kulturni Dom/Yugoslavia, the Pilot Light/Knoxville, TN, Staion de Art Sankt Peter/Cologne, Germany, Art Rat Studio/Roanoke and the Reithalle/Switzerland.
Emily Hay co-hosted the radio show, “Trilogy”, on KXLU 88.9FM Los Angeles (and at [http://www.kxlu.com)]www.kxlu.com) for decades, producing live performances and guest interviews by musicians and composers of the avant-garde, free jazz, improvisation, contemporary classical, experimental and electronic music genres. Formerly the Music Director for the Beyond Baroque Foundation in Venice, CA, Hay curated and promoted live experimental music events in Los Angeles by a stream of renowned performers such as Fred Frith, Tom Cora, John Adams and David Moss.
Counterfeit Circus / Carlos Steward
Carlos Steward, along with dozens of musicians and pantomime performers, founded the Counterfeit Circus in 1972 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, as a way to raise funds to feed orphans. Known for its quirky blend of electronic and experimental theatre, the group has performed across Latin America. Today, Carlos brings that same spirit to his performances, weaving together film, spoken word poetry, and storytelling with an array of synthesizers and unusual instruments—channeling the energy of his traveling circus.
Zen Sutherland / Mongo Sondo
Zen Sutherland is a well-loved, cult-figure artist in Asheville known for creating experimental music with self-built instruments made from toys and repurposed gadgets and electronics. His multidisciplinary work blends improvised sound, spoken word, and visual art in a playful, handcrafted but edgy style.
