Bar Laika presents Satellite 28 with Qiujiang Levi Lu and Camilo Ángeles

Join us at Bar Laika for the 28th edition of Satellite, featuring live music performances by Qiujiang Levi Lu and Camilo Ángeles. The two will be performing improvised solo and duo sets. 

Qiujiang Levi Lu/卢秋江 (they/them) is a Beijing-born, New Jersey-based performer, experimental vocalist, composer, and certified foodie. As an improvising performer, Lu utilizes custom-built feedback-driven electronic instruments, voice, and amplified muscle movements to perform in various settings. Other than performing, Lu also writes for acoustic and electronic improvisers. Through using sound-canceling headphones and in-ear monitors, Lu creates surreal listening environments for improvisers to explore human relationships, audio-visual interactivity, and the phenomenology of sound. Lu’s works have been performed at festivals, conferences, and venues such as DiMenna Center, IRCAM Forum, SEAMUS conference, HighZero Festival, NIME conference, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Oberlin MMG, Spencer Museum of Art, Rhizome DC, and NowNet Arts conference. Lu currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.

Camilo Ángeles is a flutist, composer, sound artist, researcher, music curator, and educator born in Arequipa, Peru and based in Mexico City. He is interested in the hybridization of aesthetics, not conforming to genres, the search for a unique aesthetic vision through a deconstructed approach to his instrument and musical language, and the sonorous exploration of the flute. His music consists of explosive sounds created with different extended techniques, preparations of the flute, microtonal textures, electronic processing, and hyper amplification of the flute. In his music, improvisation and composition are procedures used for the same purpose: the construction of a particular identity and space for expression. Manga co-directs the record label TVL REC with Violeta García and Carlos Quebrada. Between 2018-2021, he curated the Lima Jazz Festival. He has received awards and scholarships from the National Fund for the Arts of Argentina, participated in the OMI International Arts Center Residency, and received the Science Art and Technology Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima, Peru. Apart from working as a composer and producer making music for films, dance, and theater works, he currently composes and directs the music for his ensemble Nicotina es Primavera, a sextet with whom he has published two albums, with a third one coming up this year. He has collaborated with artists such as Tyshawn Sorey, Brandon Seabrook, Chris Pitsiokos, Kaja Draksler, Wade Matthews, Elias Stemesseder, William Winant, Paula Shocron, Matiss Cudars, Tony Malaby, Anaïs Maviel, Cara Stacey, Ben Bennett, Andrew Drury, Sales de Baño, Violeta Garcia, Carlos Quebrada, Ido Bukelman, Samuel Hall, Javier Bustos, Aviva Endean, Chatori Shimizu, Susana Baca, Mono Fontana, Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Joanna Mattrey, Gabby Fluke-mogul, and many others.

Satellite is a monthly experimental music series curated by Sanna Almajedi. 

For more information, contact laika@e-flux.com.