Thursday October 21, 7pm & 9pm
Danse Macabre pour la Harpe Médiévale et Electronique
Mia Theodoratus with Lary 7, Bradley Eros, and Ravish Momin
Admission is free — Doors 6:30pm / 8:30pm
Microscope presents an in-person live electric harp concert with a new work composed by Mia Theodoratus, Danse Macabre pour la Harpe Médiévale et Electronique, exploring the links between medieval music and images through written and improvised compositions.
Theodoratus is known for investigating historical harp techniques and blending them with free improvisation and noise. She will be joined by Ravish Momin on rhythmic electronics and by Bradley Eros and Lary 7 on projections and more.
Please join us for an evening of sounds, images and gestures that connect us from our ancient past to our current time.
Danse Macabre will be performed twice, at 7pm and at 9pm, with doors at 6:30pm & 8:30pm respectively.
Admission is free.
Please note: The event has a limited capacity of 20 for each performance, with proof of vaccination for Covid-19 and masks required.
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Mia Theodoratus is an adventurous sound maker/composer who plays harps and lyre. Currently her fascination is with dital lute harps regency single action pedals and bringing Sappho’s poetry to life with her lyre. Over the past 15 years she has improvised, collaborated with Bradley Eros, Lary 7 and Dee Pop which resulted in show in strange corners of NYC and the Tri State Area. She trained at California Institute of the Arts and Peabody Conservatory and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, Irish Arts Center and Mozatina. Her rock bands played punk venues in NYC including CBGB’s, Coney Island, Knitting Factory and Arlene’s Grocery She was featured in Deitch Projects Citizen’s Band (Art Basel), Gelatin (Bunter Abend-Golden Gate), the duo Adam & Mia (LifeBall, Vienna, Austria, Dueling Harps against Ann Manguson, Jackie 60). Performances include Irish concert by invitation of President Barak Obama, National Shakespeare’s Oedipus Athens, Greece, Whitney Biennial and Butch Morris’s Skyscrapers. Compositions include Flight of the Conchords and Rubicon on AMC. Among her recordings are Soft Focus/Sahko w/ jimi tenor and Lary 7, Jessi Couture Psalms/Sony, Jay Vons/Daptone and independent releases. Her latest commercial release “Songs From Sappho” is featured on TedED’s short on the Greek poet Sappho.
Lary 7 is a multimedia alchemist able to coax profane and inscrutable sounds and images from numerous and mysterious devices. His work has been described as that of a magician or scientist, not always certain of the outcome, but determined to see it through to its (il)logical end. Since the late 1970s he’s been building, soldering, photographing, recording, mixing, filming, playing, recombining, collecting, re-interpreting, and creating in order to make something happen. […] Mr. 7 lives and works in Manhattan’s East Village and is one of the last remaining vestiges of a once vibrant community.
Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad mediums including film & video, collage, performance, expanded cinema, and installation. Eros has been a catalyst of the New York film community since the 1980s and his works have exhibited and screened extensively in the US and abroad including at the Whitney Museum of American Art (in “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art: 1905-2016”, “The Whitney Biennial 2004”, and “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000”) as well as at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), MoMA PS1, New Museum, The Kitchen, Participant Inc., Pioneer Works, Performa09, Exit Art, Anthology Film Archives, Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, NY), The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Camden Arts Center (London), Arsenal (Berlin), and The New York, London and Rotterdam Film Festivals. His work has been written about in ArtFCity, Artforum, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The Wall Street Journal, and the Village Voice, among many others. Collaborations include the Alchemical Theater, the band Circle X, Voom HD Lab, and the expanded cinema groups kinoSonik, Arcane Project and currently with Optipus. Grants and Awards include: Acker Award, NYFA Fellowship, Experimental Television Center (ETC), and Issue Project Room’s artist in residence, among others. His work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Eros currently lives and works in Queens, New York.
Ravish Momin is an Indian-born drummer, electronic music producer and educator who studied with master-drummer Andrew Cyrille. He has worked with diverse musicians ranging from avant-saxophonist Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (of the AACM) to pop-star Shakira. His unique electro-acoustic approach blurs the lines between composition and improvisation.
This event is free to the public and is made possible through support from the City Artists Corps Grant administered by New York Foundation for the Arts, in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.