Emily Hay Live
…with Mongo Sondo & Taumi Johanson…
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 Taumi Johanson weaves together lyrical poetry & psychedelic sounds into his guitar performances.
This will be part of the Experimental Music session during the Twin Rivers Media Festival. Check back for an updated schedule and more details!
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.
“Taumi” Johanson
Taumi has been playing guitar in bands and solo for 50 years. He began his career in the early 60s, playing with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Paul Butterfield, Jose Feliciano, Richie Havens, and many other inhabitants of the East Village in NYC. His band, The Fugitives, was the first rock band signed to Columbia Records, and had several hits on the charts in NY in the 1960s. Tom describes his music as “folk flamenco jazz rock and psychedelic surf rock pop”, and more recently has been introducing experimental sounds and poetry.
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.
POETRY PIEROGI
POETRY WITH NO FORMULA.
ANY RECIPE.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION NEEDED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com
POETRY PIEROGI
POETRY WITH NO FORMULA.
ANY RECIPE.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION NEEDED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com
POETRY PIEROGI
POETRY WITH NO FORMULA.
ANY RECIPE.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION NEEDED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com
POETRY PIEROGI
POETRY WITH NO FORMULA.
ANY RECIPE.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION NEEDED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com
POETRY PIEROGI
POETRY WITH NO FORMULA.
ANY RECIPE.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION NEEDED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com
POETRY PIEROGI
POETRY WITH NO FORMULA.
ANY RECIPE.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION NEEDED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com
POETRY PIEROGI
POETRY WITH NO FORMULA.
ANY RECIPE.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION NEEDED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com
POETRY PIEROGI
POETRY WITH NO FORMULA.
ANY RECIPE.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION NEEDED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com
POETRY PIEROGI
Poetry with no recipe.
A poem can be anything.
A whisper. A riot.
A dream. A glitch.
A love letter to the future.
A bowl of something
You’ve never tasted.
POETRY PIEROGI IS EXPERIMENTAL.
ALL MEDIUMS. ALL VOICES. REFUSAL REQUIRED.
NO PERMISSION REQUIRED.
Every Monday after Flooded Poetry, at the Flood Gallery, 802 Fairview Rd, Suite 1200, River Ridge Center, East Asheville.
CONTACT
info@poetrypierogi.com