A double bill featuring composer/performer Lea Bertucci and Bay Area-based electronic musician Matt Robidoux.

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.

Lea Bertucci is an experimental musician, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments, her work incorporates spatialized speaker arrays, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology. In recent years, her projects have expanded toward site-specific and spatially aware projects that initiate new access points to architecture. Her approach to music is marked by dense masses of sustained dissonance and a fascination with the sonic substance of common experience.

Her discography spans over a decade, with eight full-length solo albums and a number of collaborative projects. In 2018 and 2019, she released solo albums Metal Aether and Resonant Field on NNA Tapes, and has since gone on to found her own label, Cibachrome Editions, with 2021’s A Visible Length of Light as the inaugural release followed by 2022’s Murmurations, a duo with Ben Vida. She has also worked with SA Recordings, Ultraviolet Light, American Dreams, and Astral Spirits records, among others.

She has performed extensively across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Museum of Modern Art New York, Blank Forms, Gagosian Gallery, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen, The Walker Museum, Tempo Reale in Florence, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Sound of Stockholm Festival, ReWire Festival, Borderline Festival, and Unsound Festival Krakow. Artist residencies include the MacDowell Colony, ISSUE Project Room, Headlands Center for the Arts and The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Recent commissions include “You And I Are Earth, the Waves Crash Within Us” from the INA GRM, Paris; “Of Shadow and Substance” from ARS Nova Workshop, “Vertical Octet” by the Levy Gorvy Gallery, New York; and “Acoustic Shadows” by the Bruckenmusik Festival, Koln

Matt Robidoux is a San Francisco based composer, improviser, educator, and community organizer interested in the convergence of movement and sound as it relates to free improvisation, accessibility, and the communicative capacities of sonic energy. Their primary instrument is the “corn synth” — (kinetically operated randomness network) a modular system that interprets physical input from two “ears of corn” sculptures cast in aluminum.

In 2017 Matt established the Adaptive Instrument Ensemble (AIE), a community based practice focused on expanding the improvising community across abilities, demographics, and geographies. Beginning with a pilot workshop in 2019, Robidoux founded the Prepared Guitar Ensemble in collaboration with Creativity Explored, a studio-based collective that partners with people with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us.

Matt has collaborated with Creativity Explored, Del Sol Quartet, Sudhu Tewari, Jean Carla Rodea, Gerald Cleaver, Sudhu Tewari, Eclipse Quartet, Daniel Schmidt, Henry Kaiser, William Winant, Jaap Blonk, Stuart Dempster, Laura Steenberge, Sunburned Hand of the Man, gabby fluke-mogul, Anla Courtis (Reynols) and J Mascis.

They hold a MA in music composition from Mills College, where they studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, Laetitia Sonami, John Bischoff, James Fei, David Bernstein, and Daniel Schmidt. Matt’s writing on the Adaptive Instrument Ensemble (AIE) will be published as a chapter in Improvising across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument forthcoming via University of Michigan Press in 2024.

Matt has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan and has work available on Crash Symbols, Already Dead Tapes, Shhpuma, Null Zone, Feeding Tube Records, Mystra, Exploding In Sound, Ydlmier, and Carpark Records.