KBD; Laura Cocks; Robbie Wing; Oga/Lindorff

Notice Recordings and Oga present:

KBD (electroacoustic free improv trio on tour from Ohio)
Laura Cocks (flute)
Robbie Wing (electronics)
Oga/Lindorff (objects/feedback)

Presented in a barn.

KBD: The KBD Sonic Cooperative, KBD(uo), KBDj, &c.
Michael Kimaid, Gabriel Beam, Ryan Dohm
KBD is a trio of musicians who perform long form improvisational sound pieces using electroacoustic instrumentation. This approach is experimental by both nature and design, and serves as a way for listeners to engage with deep and active listening. Its principal members are Michael Kimaid, Gabriel Beam, and Ryan Dohm. Formed in 2006, the group released [four plus one] on the Eh? Aural Repository music label before Dohm left for Los Angeles in 2007. Shortly thereafter, a brief but productive collaboration with Colin Helb saw performances vary between a trio and a duo lineup through 2008. Afterwards, Kimaid and Beam continued to play as KBD(uo), releasing an EP called Candid on FTAM and follow up full length on Eh?, Any Port In A Storm. KBD(uo) also released a DVD entitled Drop The Remainder in 2013 on the New Orleans based multimedia label The Language Foundry, and a cassette release entitled Loss/Gain on the RCN label from Akron, Ohio. Dohm was able to rejoin the group with some regularity in 2013, and KBD returned to both recording and touring as a trio configuration. KBD’s most recent cassette release, entitled III, is now available on the Eh? Aural Repository label.

LAURA COCKS: Laura Cocks (they/she) is a flutist with “febrile instrumental prowess” (The New York Times), who works in a wide array of environments as a performer of experimental music and “creates intricate, spellbinding works that have a visceral physicality to them” (Foxy Digitalis). Laura is the executive director and flutist of TAK ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), with whom Laura makes musics “that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (WIRE Magazine). They are also a member of Talea Ensemble, noted for their “astonishing fluidity,” “compelling lucidity, ” and “precise control” (The New York Times). As a soloist, improviser, and chamber musician, they have performed with musicians such as DoYeon Kim, Shara Lunon, Timothy Angulo, yuniya edi kwon, Luke Stewart, Wendy Eisenberg, Lester St. Louis, Brandon Lopez, Madison Greenstone, International Contemporary Ensemble, Sun Ra Arkestra, Wet Ink Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, and many others in NYC and abroad.
Their recent solo album, field anatomies (Carrier Records), noted as one of Stereogum’s top-ten experimental releases of the year, charted in the Billboard top ten “Classical Crossover” releases and was praised for its “superhuman physicality” and “disciplined patience” (Bandcamp Best Contemporary Release and Experimental Release). Laura can be heard on labels such as ECM, Denovali Records, Catalytic Sound, TAK editions, Tripticks Tapes, Carrier Records, Chambray Records, Double Whammy Whammy, New Focus Records, Sound American, Orange Mountain Music, Supertrain, Gold Bolus, Hideous Replica, Sideband Records, and many others.

ROBBIE WING: Robbie Wing is an artist, musician, and composer born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His practice focuses on composition, sonic sculpture, psycho-geographies, and performance. Robbie has a Master’s Degree in Urban Design from the University of Oklahoma. Robbie has presented his work and performed at various venues, including the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship Gallery, Philbrook Museum, University of Kent in Chatham, UK, Institute for Advanced Studies in Kószeg, Hungary, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater and the Center for Arts, Research & Alliances.

OGA/LINDORFF: OGA (they/them) is an artist/composer currently based in Hudson Valley. EVAN LINDORFF-ELLERY is a sound artist based in the Hudson Valley focusing on catharsis and poetry through object manipulation and perversion.