Edges of a Sphere | July 7, 2024

Shara Lunon is a transdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the product of the evolution of Black American musical traditions. As a poet, vocalist, composer, and improviser, her art finds the ethereal in the chaotic. With voice as the foundation, Shara’s music is an exploration of text and sound that seamlessly weaves through the ongoing relationship of struggle, resilience, and resolution. Her goal is to challenge lassitude and in its place, instill hope. 

Brandon Lopez is a New York City-based bassist and composer whose work is a syncretism of disparate styles and musical processes used to extend and transgress the vocabulary of the double bass. The Cleveland Review of Books writes “This is virtuosity in the sense that we hear on this record countless textures from Lopez—extended techniques, bowed strings that unearth wild harmonics, plucked rumblings, and low funk rootings—each conjured from a deep sense of what is being called for in a moment. This is virtuosity as vocabulary, a total command of texture, subtlety, and a depth that can be reached into.” He has collaborated with an exhaustive list of great musicians and thinkers. He was a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic, and has received numerous awards and fellowships (including a Van Lier Fellowship, a Jerome Residency at Roulette Intermedium, an Artist in Residence at Issue Project Room, the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, and The Robert D. Bielecki Foundation). His collaborations with Gerald Cleaver and Fred Moten were featured in The New York Times best of jazz in 2022. 

Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician, and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation, and the creation of sound devices and systems. Lopez holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College and an MA from Wesleyan University in composition (2016). Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room, Ostrava Days Festival 2011 (Ostrava, Czech Republic), MATA Festival 2012, Experimental Intermedia, Fridman Gallery (New York), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway), and the XIV Cuenca Biennial, among others. She was a Civitella Ranieri fellow in 2015, and has participated in various international residency programs. In 2019, Lopez curated the Intermedia Festival Folly Systems coproduced by Roulette Intermedium and Outpost Artists Resources, which featured eleven international artists. Her collaborators have included Carmen Baliero, Aki Onda, John Driscoll, Carrie Schneider, and Lars Laumann, among others.

Ipek Eginli is a Turkish-American experimental sound artist and improviser who describes her music-making as “a process of a creation and a creation of a process.” Her ever-evolving creative process involves electroacoustic free improvisation on piano, voice, modular synthesizers, and no-input mixing boards. Eginli’s work is often described as adventurous, daring, playful, and vibrant. Watching her perform, one can witness a dynamic sonic exploration, effortlessly shifting between organic and mechanical sounds while evoking a range of emotions, from tender and soft to dark and explosive. She explores the convergence of acoustic and electronic sounds, blurring and, at times, overemphasizing the lines between the two to create surprising sonic illusions and interactions.