a night of beautiful experimental music from 3 harps, 2 banjos, vibraphone and accordion (Eleanora @eleanora__harp) (Kelby Clark @kelbyclark & Chris Hadley @_cch_cch_cch) (Doomi Soomi @airplanefoods) (Elif Dincer @elifdincer & Adam Lion @liiiiiioooooooonnnnnn & Kourtney Jackson-Smith @kourtneykyung)

Bios:
Eleanora is the solo project of Eleanor Denison, based in Oakland. A classically trained harpist from New England, she balances composition and experimentation in introspective pieces. Her work demonstrates an intuitive sense of flow that finds a place for each feeling. Her debut album, "Lamentations of An Bhean Sí", was released in early 2025.
https://eleanoraharp.bandcamp.com/

Kourtney Jackson Smith is an artist and writer working across performance, sound, movement, and text. She recently launched New Performance Research Lab, an open collective devoted to experimentation and the integration of embodied art forms as a praxis of wholeness post-colonial repair. She has performed at various locations across Southern California including 2220 Arts & Archives, Oracle Egg, Heavy Manners Bookstore, Dynasty Typewriter, and the Hollywood Star Walk of Fame. She holds an MA in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts.

Elif Dinçer is a harpist and composer who has spent her time developing a large instrumental vocabulary and researching alternate tuning systems. She is an active performer both solo and as a collaborator based in Los Angeles. Her practice focuses on communication through instrumental performance and exploring the harp to create phrases, layers, and sound objects in every way imagined.

Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), Adam Lion is a Los Angeles based percussionist, improviser, and composer. Valuing idiosyncratic techniques, he explores new sonic frameworks involving agency, constraint, perception, and immediacy. He collaborates extensively and can be heard on the Astral Spirits, Drag City, CMNTX, and Innova labels.

doomi soomi is a los angeles based multi-instrumentalist who celebrates the raw acoustic beauty of the accordion and banjo through long form instrumental modal music. merging influences from experimental electronic to american folk music, doomi soomi takes listeners on a fantastical melodic journey.

Kelby Clark is a Los Angeles-based banjo player, originally hailing from South Georgia. His approach is inspired by the old-time music of his home state as well as drone, free improvisation, raga, noise, and many other forms of both experimental and traditional music from around the globe.

Chris Hadley is a performer and composer based in Los Angeles, CA. Chris’s practice weaves together percussion and electronic instruments, with a focus on the Feedback Drumset. This electroacoustic system uses audio feedback to imbue the instrument with self-organizing behavior, interrogating the nature of musical sense-making between persons and things.