Doors at 7
Show at 7:30
Lykanthea is the project of multidisciplinary artist Lakshmi Ramgopal. Based in New York City and Chicago, Ramgopal uses pop idioms to experiment with Indian sound and movement traditions. Her ensemble performances use improvisatory techniques to explore the natural world and personal family narratives, and have brought her to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and less traditional venues, like the middle of a freshwater stream at dawn. Her recent work includes A Half-Light Chorus, a sound installation in Chicago’s Lincoln Park Conservatory, and Hive, a site-specific sound and sculpture installation created with visual artist Nancy Davidson and commissioned by Krannert Art Museum. Ramgopal's work has received praise from from Noisey, Chicago Reader, Public Radio International’s The World, and more. Her ensemble includes dancer and vocalist Asha Rowland, violinist Johanna Brock, and cellist Erica Miller.
Will Yager is a double bassist committed to experimental music, improvisation, and collaborating with composers in the creation of new solo and chamber repertoire for the double bass. Yager has worked directly with such composers as Michael Gordon, David Lang, Miya Masaoka, Scott Wollschleger, Sivan Cohen Elias, Mary Jane Leach, Jean-François Charles, and Amy Williams among others. He is a founding member of both LIGAMENT, a duo with soprano Anika Kildegaard, and the experimental trio Wombat with Justin Comer and Carlos Cotallo Solares. Performance highlights include appearances the University of Iowa Center for New Music, High Zero Foundation’s Red Room in Your Room series, Experimental Sound Studios’ Quarantine Concerts, 2022 SEAMUS Convention, 2021 International Society of Bassists Convention, Open Air Media Festival, Oh My Ears Festival, MOXsonic, Big Ears Festival, Feed Me Weird Things, Nief-Norf Summer Festival, New Music on the Point, Cortona Sessions for New Music, and the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival. In addition to his varied performing activities, Yager previously held teaching positions at Maryville College, the University of North Alabama, and is currently on faculty at the North Carolina Governor’s School West. He is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.