An evening curated by Kou Records, founded by Charmaine Lee and Randall Dunn, presenting recent and forthcoming artists from the label’s Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 cohorts. Live visuals by Mark Dorf. 

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe performs solo in celebration of Manifestations in the Shadow of an Uncertain Land, his new release on Kou Records, out June 12. Voice and modular synthesis.

Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney perform music from their respective Kou Records releases, Kang’s Riparian and Kenney’s Uranian Void, alongside new duo material.

Presented by Kou Records in partnership with Roulette.

Kou Records (pronounced “koh”), which takes its name from the Chinese word for “mouth,” is dedicated to artists who have built their own musical languages. Across generations, they share a persistent curiosity and have synthesized an omnivorous appetite for influences in a highly personal and idiosyncratic manner. Kou’s artists are provided with the dedicated time and space for experimentation, collaboration, and expression—culminating in a full-length vinyl release.

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (b. 1975) is an artist, curator, and composer who works primarily — but not limited to — voice and modular synthesizer in the realm of spontaneous music. Alongside analog video synthesis works, he has developed an A/V practice that has been a focus of live performance and installation.

The marriage of synthesis and voice has allowed for a heightened physicality in the way of ecstatic music, both in a live setting and recorded. The sensitivity of analogue modular synthesis echoes the organic nature of vocal expression, meant to put forth a trancelike state. Lowe’s works on paper tend towards human relations to the natural and magical world and the repetition of motifs. He has also put increasing focus on composition for film, both in solo scoring and collaboration.

Through collaboration Robert has worked with Ben Russell, Ben Rivers, Sabrina Ratté, Rose Lazar, Nicolas Becker, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Tarek Atoui, Philippe Parreno, Evan Calder Williams, Ariel Kalma, Susie Ibarra, YoshimiO, Alexandra Wolkowicz, Biba Bell, ADULT., Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Rose Kallal, among many others.

Eyvind Kang is a composer and violist who has released albums of original music on labels including Tzadik, Ipecac, Abduction, and Ideologic Organ, and has worked on hundreds of recordings as a musician and arranger. His compositions have been performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Seattle Chamber Players, and other ensembles. As a violist he has been featured by Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, the Sun City Girls, and Secret Chiefs, and has performed solo pieces by Christian Wolff and Giacinto Scelsi.

His ongoing collaboration with composer and singer Jessika Kenney has been described as “serious, refined music” by The New York Times, taking the form of sound actions and installations, choral and orchestral works, and minimalist vocal and string arrangements. Kang is currently faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Riparian, released on Kou Records, marks his first solo instrumental release.

Jessika Kenney is a Los Angeles-based composer, vocalist, writer, and educator. Kenney’s work hovers at the intersection of voice, text, and tradition through subtle and multidimensional compositions that draw from a range of influences, from her early involvement in Seattle’s underground music and activist scenes, to intensive studies in Indonesia and in Persian art music. She has many past and ongoing collaborations including those with Will Alexander, Niloufar Shiri, Amalia Laurent, Emma Mccormick-Goodheart, Kyle Motl, Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė, Kole Galbraith, Julia Holter, Lori Goldston, Bill Porter, Keir GoGwilt, Celeste Oram, Clara De Asís, and Anne Carson. As a sought-after interpreter of vocal music, Kenney has performed and recorded the works of composers Alvin Lucier, Annea Lockwood, Hossein Omoumi, Daniel Schmidt, Sarah Davachi, and Trimpin. She composed the vocal music to director Ari Aster’s 2019 horror film Midsommar and helped train the actors in specialized vocal techniques.

With her longstanding musical partner, violist and composer Eyvind Kang, Kenney has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Aestuarium (2005), the face of the earth (2012, re-released 2026), and most recently Azure (2023), all on Ideologic Organ. Her most recent solo LP Uranian Void was released October 31, 2025 on Kou Records and includes a video filmed and directed by Keli Mashburn. She earned a Bachelor’s of Music in jazz voice and composition from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she later taught voice and composition before joining special faculty at California Institute of the Arts until 2021.