Ear Pollen Pt. 2

Klimchak is a composer known for his use of electronics & homebuilt instruments. His work has been seen in dance, theater & solo performances around the world. He regularly performs solo shows featuring the Don Buchla designed Marimba Lumina. Only about 100 of this very rare instrument were made. With the Marimba Lumina the percussionist is able to perform live music that would normally take at least 4 musicians. His multi-instrumental compositions are played with 4 separate mallets, six foot pedals and a breath controller. As added touches, his sets usually include 4 or 5 small percussion instruments, some chanting or tuvan throat singing and at least one solo on the theremin.

Praised by The New York Times for her “appealingly melancholic sound” and “entertaining array of distortion effects,” Alexandria Smith is a multimedia artist, audio engineer, trumpeter, and scholar who enjoys working at the intersection of all these disciplines. Her creative practice and research interests focus on building, designing, theorizing, and performing with interactive systems and translating embodied, biological data into interactive sonic and visual environments. Her research has been presented at AES, ICMC, AMS, SEAMUS, the Guelph Jazz Colloquium, MoxSonic, and more.

Alexandria Smith is an active performer in New York City, New Orleans, and Atlanta. As an improviser/multi-media artist, Smith has had a residency at the Stone NYC and feature recitals on the Future of New Trumpet (FONT) Festival West, and the VI Semana Internacional de Improvisación in Ensenada, Baja California. She has been a performer at the FONT Festival NYC, Improv Night at the Stone, and the Either/OR Spring Festival. Alexandria is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she leads the IMPACT lab.