Non-Event Support for Social Change – Online Fundraiser for Black & Pink Boston
ONLINE FUNDRAISER FOR BLACK AND PINK BOSTON
Non-Event Support for Social Change
Featuring performances & pieces by MARK CETILIA, BRITTANY KARLSON & MATT DELLIGATTI, LEAN, AND KATYA POPOVA/KATARINA MILJKOVIC
Friday, August 28, 2020 at 8pm
a/v premiere | YouTube
YouTube Link
The Support Series is an monthly series of online fundraisers to raise money for and awareness of local social & racial justice organizations. This month, we're encouraging people to donate to Black and Pink Boston, a national prison abolitionist organization, based in Boston, which is dedicated to dismantling the criminal punishment system and the harms caused to LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by the system through advocacy, support, and organizing.
We urge you to learn more about Black & Pink... and donate, if you can!
This is the fourth in a series of online concerts to raise money for social change. Each event will raise money for a different organization working for social and racial justice in Boston and beyond.
About the artists
MARK CETILIA is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analog and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound practice, Cetilia’s work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. He is a member of the media art group Redux, recipients of a Creative Capital grant in Emerging Fields, and the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1, described by The Grove Dictionary of American Music as “a complex cybernetic entity” whose “evolving, custom-built systems are as important an aspect of the duo’s achievements as their ever-innovative sound.”
Bassist/vocalist BRITTANY KARLSON is an adventurous musician with roots in jazz, American folk music, and improvised music. She has performed across the USA, Canada, and Europe in a variety of ensemble settings, including improvised trio Letter Castle and American old-time/bluegrass/Swedish string band The Goodbye Girls. When performing solo, Karlson improvises, performs original songs under the moniker Karl, or ducks behind her bass to perform a lighthearted puppet show with many props.
LEAN is the sound collage, free bloop duo of Seamus Williams and Mickey O’Hara, two stalwarts of Worcester’s experimental music scene. They also host the free form experimental music show Music Under the Moon on WCUW.
KATYA POPOVA is multidisciplinary artist, working at the intersection of physical texture, shadow, and sound. Her works explore what could have been by tracing the physical gestures and material qualities of everyday things.
Composer KATARINA MILJKOVIC investigates interaction between science, music and nature through collaborative musical performance. Her generative music has been described as “a refined, hypnotic dream” (Danas), “a work of musical and visual slow-motion with only a few delicately elaborated musical metaphors” (Radio Belgrade), and “ambient tone poem… that moved hypnotically through the sonic frame” (Lucid Culture).
