Multidisciplinary artist and musician Preston Swirnoff will perform with his new ensemble, "NEW TONGUES" sound/\art trio, featuring Xareni Lizarraga and Kathia Rudametkin. Swirnoff will performing with a set of kinetic sound sculptures made of metal and wood, built by artist Spenser Little. Lizarraga is a sound ecology researcher and field recordist who performed her striking mix of organic and electronic sound textures at Project Blank’s Machine Music in December 2022. Rudametkin is an accomplished viola player, composer, and electronic music producer based in Ensenada. Presented in cooperation with Oolong Gallery to follow their opening earlier in the day, featuring new works by Markus Bacher and Claire Chambless. Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel hosts the event in the open air ruins of their 1920’s mineral springs bathhouse. More information here. The trio performance is the first of Swirnoff’s New Tongues series, which will run throughout 2023 and feature visual art, sound, film, and publishing collaborations with cellist and UCSD professor Charles Curtis, ceramic artist Evan Lopez, UCSD musicology Ph.D. candidate Pablo Dodero, musician Sean Francis Conway, Paris-based textile artist Victoria Legrand, and others.
