CHIARA GIOVANDO & JESSICA RYLAN @ ROULETTE: experimental music/noise

ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242

contact: [email protected] http://www.roulette.org/

Thursday, March 15th

Chiara Giovando / Jessica Rylan

Chiara Giovando
(voice, violin, electronics)

Chiara Giovando was born in northern New Mexico in 1976. She moved to Baltimore in 2002 in order to participate in a community of musicians and artists involved in transgressive consciousness. Her musical psyche is an amalgamation of intuition and critical thought. This can be a tumultuous union, at times leading to rash judgments, at other times to the detailed expression of sensed truths. She uses empathic prejudice in order to communicate her music. She has toured to several cities in America as well as performing in Berlin, Hong Kong, Tai Wan and Rome. Her career has been jarred by abrupt periods of self-imposed isolation, leaving her with an indispensable quality of passage. The Baltimore City Paper named her work the Best Performance Art of 2005, calling her “excruciatingly tense”.

Jessica Rylan

Simultaneously high-energy and contemplative, sound artist/electronic musician Jessica Rylan will be singing, dancing, playing home-made synthesizers and performing compositions from her forthcoming Important Records CD, Interior Designs. Rylan builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance, her designs influenced by plants … and the historically outmoded. She maintains an active alter ego as Can’t, a one-woman noise band.

Rylan has performed across the United States, eastern Canada, Scandinavia and western Europe. Highlights included Moscow, Oslo, Lisbon, Antwerp, London, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. Rylan has presented sound installations at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts and the Berwick Research Institute. She received an MFA from Bard College and has been awarded grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and the LEF Foundation. Her recordings are available on Ultra Eczema and RRRecords. She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

Her performances have been called “some of the most unarmoured and awkwardly intimate noise music ever … a revelatory marriage of avant garde form and intuitive, almost diarist-style, folk documentation.” (The Wire) www.irfp.net