Monday March 24, 7pm
VOICES: A Live Poetry, Music, and Pluri-language Experience
Featuring Lydia T. Liu, Brandon Woo Snyder, and Jennifer Shyue
In person only
Microscope Gallery is pleased to present VOICES: A Live Poetry, Music, and Pluri-language Experience.
The approximately 90-minute long event will begin with an improvised duo poetry and electronic sound performance by poet Lydia T. Liu and musician Brandon Woo Snyder in which the artists approach speech as “both a semantic and a melodic material.”
A solo poetry reading by Liu from her chapbook The problem of deer (Finishing Line Press, 2025,) and readings of selected works from A Blind Salmon (Phoneme MediaDeep Vellum, 2024) written by tusán poet Julia Wong Kcomt (1965-2024) and presented by translator Jennifer Shyue follows the performance.
The evening concludes with a solo instrumental performance from Woo Snyder that is “anchored around sounds of musical and typing keyboards.”
From the artists:
“This evening of performances brings together poetry, music, and translation to explore themes of belonging, sound, and the intersections of languages, offering a multisensory and boundary-pushing experience.”
General Admission: $9
Members & Students (w/ valid ID): $7
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Jennifer Shyue is a translator from Spanish. Her work has appeared most recently in The Margins, the New York Times, and Lit Hub, and has received support from English PEN, the Fulbright Program, the Cornell Institute for Comparative Modernities, the National Endowment for the Arts, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa. Her translations include Julia Wong Kcomt’s poetry collections A Blind Salmon (Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum, 2024) and Vice-royal-ties (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021) and Augusto Higa Oshiro’s novel The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu (Archipelago, 2023). She can be found at shyue.co.
Lydia T. Liu is a diasporic poet and scholar. Her chapbook The problem of deer is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2025, and was selected as a finalist in the 2022 Poetry Society of America Chapbook contest. Her recent work has appeared in Cimarron Review, The Columbia Review, and Poetry Northwest, and has received support from the Community of Writers Poetry workshop. Her poetry performances have been showcased at the University of California Berkeley and The David Ireland House. She currently teaches at Princeton University.
Brandon Woo Snyder (he/him) is a composer and educator based out of New York City. His music has been performed by the SWR Vokalensemble, Line Upon Line, Ensemble Aventure, and Faint Noise, at institutions including IRCAM, impuls, and the Jack Straw Cultural Center. He worked as a research assistant at the music informatics institute at Karlsruhe Conservatory, and has most recently presented at the 2024 Web Audio Conference. He holds a masters in composition from the Stuttgart state music conservatory, and a bachelors in music from Harvard University. He is the founding director of Browser Sound, a festival for web-based sound art, and he currently teaches music and podcasting technology for the New York Public Library.