We’ve got a special show planned for the very first Elastro Series show of 2024! Multi-instrumentalist Kyle Price is back to Elastic Arts with a new project Gilded Waves that explores hip-hop, trip-hop, techno, turntablism, and free improvisation. Kyle will be joined by special guest Gordon Fung who will be providing an audio/visual component to the set. We’ll start the night with a solo set from Raquel Gonzalez who utilizes violin and electronics to create ambient lush improvised soundscapes.

It’s Friday night! Let’s meet at Elastro Series!

$15 / $10 w/ Student ID – Tickets Available at the Door

Artist Bios

Wielding an electric violin, looper, and effects pedals, Raquel Gonzalez records herself improvising and composing music regularly. She creates lush soundscapes, ambient drones, and experimental string music in her home studio. She enjoys making different kinds of audio art that pairs well with poetry and various sound textures.

Gilded Waves is the electronic brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and composer Kyle Gregory Price. Driven by the paradox of classical training and punk ethics, another love for hip-hop, trip-hop, techno and house blast out from Kyle’s oeuvre through this nascent project – an amalgamation of all the genres mentioned above. His own sampled drums, live vocals, turntablism and synth heavy riffs fill the sonic space in both solo and collaborative iterations.

Gordon Fung (b. 1988, San Francisco) is a transdisciplinary artist who primarily works with multi-/new media performances, installations, noise music, experimental film/video, media archaeology, and large-scale curatorial/collaborative practices. His works highlight unconventional executions like equipment misusing, noises, lo-fi presentations, and glitches. Such aesthetics confronts the viewers’ understanding, perspective, and point of view on reality through a more philosophical, if not esoteric, investigation. To expand the possibilities of artistic idioms, he intertwines both analog and digital technologies—also to signify the co-existence of mundane and spiritual worlds. By overloading software and hardware, he collapses the two worlds to expand the audience’s perception of reality. As a break-maker, he deliberately misuses electronic equipment and software to regain consumers’ sense of agency through artistic means. Through media archeology, he strives to unearth concealed potentials of obsolete equipment and to revive them to artistic life.

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