Trio for Cellos + Electronics | Displacement Field

​Jonathan Kaiser, Lori Goldston, Chloe Alexandra Thompson

​Two different configurations of cello + electronics use spatial audio to explore similar themes from different angles; acoustic resonance, active listening, and the tensions between physical presence and sensory perception.

​The trio of Lori Goldston (cello), Chloe Alexandra Thompson (electronics), and Jonathan Kaiser (cello) cultivates a resonant ecosystem of intertwined gestures: call & response, note & echo, symmetries that grow, evolve, and disintegrate.

​Jonathan Kaiser presents Displacement Field, a new piece for solo cello and electronics that tests the boundaries between magnification and deception, immediacy and distraction.

​Artist bios

​Jonathan Kaiser is an interdisciplinary artist, cellist, and electronic musician born in Milwaukee and based in Brooklyn. His solo performances use amplified cello to weave together spare fragments of melody, evolving drones, and raw timbral experimentation. He has collaborated with numerous artists & bands including Elori Saxl, Dark Dark Dark, Mirah, Pyrrha, and Brute Heart.

​Lori Goldston plays written, traditional and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, teacher, bandleader, and prolific, widely varied collaborator. Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, her voice as a cellist is singular, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought. She performs and records as a soloist and collaborator with composers, film makers, writers, theater directors, choreographers, visual artists, orchestras and bands including Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Helms Alee, Mirah, David Byrne, Terry Riley, Jessika Kenney, Lonnie Holley, Trimpin, Stuart Dempster, Shelley Hirsch, Charles Hayward, Ghedalia Tezartes, Senga Nengudi, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton, and many, many others.

​Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree interdisciplinary artist, director and composer. Her practice explores listening as a way of knowing and relating which is shaped by Indigenous resonance, spatial perception, and embodied vulnerability. Working with psychoacoustic tones, algorithmic systems, and sculptural spatialization as materials, she composes spaces that shift awareness, inviting deep relational encounters between bodies, technologies, and land. Thompson’s work has been presented by CTM Berlin, MUTEK (Tokyo & Montreal), Onassis Foundation (Greece & USA), ImagineNative, Pioneer Works, PICA, Performance Space New York, among others. A current Onassis ONX Studio member, she has participated in residencies at Pioneer Works, MIT OpenDoc Lab with the Indigenous Screen Office of Canada, and HERVISIONS x Arebyte (UK).

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