Friday April 14 – Monday April 17, 11pm PT
Live Sound: Molto Ohm (Matteo Liberatore) / Nava Dunkelman & Gabby Fluke-Mogul (record release)
In person & online
Microscope is very pleased to present a night of live sound by New York-based musicians Nava Dunkelman and Gabby Fluke-Mogul and by Matteo Liberatore.
The evening opens with a 40-minute performance by the duo Dunkelman and Fluke-Mogul — with Nava Dunkelman on percussions and Gabby Fluke-Mogul on violin — for the release of their new record of “Likht.”
Matteo Liberatore follows with a performance of “Molto Ohm,” his new 30-minute A/V piece involving video projection onto a vertical screen incorporating screen recordings, 360-degree video, iPhone, and stock footage.
Further info about both performances follows below.
The performances will also be live-streamed on our site.
General Admission (in-person): $12
Members (in-person: $10
Online tickets become available on this site at 7:30pm ET on the day of the show.
Program:
Likht
Record Release
By Nava Dunkleman and Gabby Fluke-Mogul
40 minutes
Incinerating sound together since 2014, Nava Dunkelman and gabby fluke-mogul combine their expansive palettes with finesse, creating a fierce dialect of their own. Violin and percussion combust viscerally through spirit and song. Forged in flame, Dunkelman and fluke-mogul honor ritual and celebrate their rich sonic hues in their duo release, Likht.
Molto Ohm
By Matteo Liberatore
30 minutes
Molto Ohm is a sonic and visual exploration of the interplay between digital life and social decay on an emotional level. In today’s alluring digital world, we are merely users, to whom health, beauty, love, and connection are promised. But at what cost? In the end, we find ourselves alone, void of purpose yet still mindlessly scrolling, pulling furtively on a pane of glass, unable to break through. Utilizing a mixed palette of sporadic dance beats, seductive voices, synthetic melodies and environmental sound, the music deftly distills these experiences into arresting aural scenes. Liberatore’s prior prolific work in the realms of improvised and creative music is combined with his experience working as a freelance sound recordist in the advertising industry, as well as memories of dancing in nightclubs as a teenager in Italy, to assemble a work that is at once profoundly alienating and deeply intimate. For the live experience, Molto Ohm plays next to a vertical screen projection that is complementing (or not…) the ideas expressed in the music, creating an immersive world of in which the audience can get lost, amused, bewildered.
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Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother. Her musical approach is innovative and dynamic, combining virtuosity and intuition. Meticulous in an intrinsic way, she uses her distinctive sound palette to explore and give life to a vast spectrum of musical possibilities. Nava’s current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma Ateria, and percussion duo NOMON with her sister Shayna Dunkelman. She also has performed and collaborated with Fred Frith, John Zorn, William Winant, Ikue Mori, Brandon Seabrook, Angélica Negrón, Pauchi Sasaki, and gabby fluke-mogul and many others.
gabby fluke-mogul is a New York based violinist, improviser, composer, & educator.
fluke-mogul exists within the threads of improvisation, free jazz, noise, & experimental music. Their playing has been described as “embodied, visceral, & virtuosic” & “the most striking sound in improvised music in years…” gabby is humbled to have collaborated with Nava Dunkelman, Joanna Mattrey, Ava Mendoza, Fred Frith, Luke Stewart, Zeena Parkins, Tcheser Holmes, Mara Rosenbloom & Pauline Oliveros among many other musicians, poets, dancers, & visual artists. fluke-mogul was a 2021/2022 Roulette Intermedium Commissioned Artist. gfm holds a MFA in Music Performance & Literature from Mills College, a BA in Music & Early Childhood Education from Hampshire College, & a Deep Listening certificate from The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer.
Matteo Liberatore is a boundary-pushing guitarist and composer working at the intersection of free, contemporary classical, electronic, and noise music. Based in Brooklyn, Liberatore spent much of his life in the medieval region of Abruzzo, Italy, amidst dramatic landscapes reflected in a playing and composing style of “unsettling beauty” and “striking physicality” (The New York City Jazz Record). Liberatore is known for his nuanced treatment of timbre, texture, gestures, and rhythms, and his work aims to convey precise musical ideas––whether through the elegant immediacy of unadorned instrumentation or the affecting dislocations of electronics and preparations. The latter approach can be heard in his first solo album––aptly titled Solos––released on Innova Recordings in 2018: “This is not just sonic novelty or gratuitous use of extended techniques; each of the pieces, while largely improvised, [has] clarity and purpose” (Avant Music News). Solos was included in Ted Gioia’s best albums of 2018.
