surface tensions

a performance for amplified flute, amplified bass flute, electric organs, stones, ceramics, and loudspeakers
presented at Women From Space Festival, Toronto, April 2022

surface tensions is a solo improvising project rooted in experimentation with the friction between objects, electric, and electronic instruments, and the sounds they create.

An extension of research I conducted as an improviser from 2018-2020 on the use of breath, articulation and key clicks on an internally-amplified flute to generate distorted tones, feedback, and percussive effects, this project mixes solo flute improvisation with the drones from placing objects on multiple broken secondhand electric organs and live electronics—creating an ecosystem of subtly shifting beatings, tones, and feedback.

This project was presented at Women From Space Festival 2022, at the Tranzac, Toronto.

The electronics used in this project were purchased thanks to generous funding from the Ontario Arts Council.