The Cedar Presents
MIZU + OHYUNG with Meridian Shanewood and Ryann Daisy Swimmer
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 / Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM
All Ages
Seated
$20 Advance, $25 Day of Show
This is a seated show with general admission, first-come-first-served seating. The Cedar is happy to reserve seats for patrons who require special seating accommodations. To request access accommodations, please go to our Access page.
General Admission tickets are available online.
ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Cedar is honored to host this wonder-filled evening of openness and vulnerability with co-headliners MIZU using the vast sound-world of the cello in her intricately looped and layered compositions + OHYUNG, Robert Ouyang Rusli's solo experimental project ranging from ecstatic pop and ambient drones to brutalist noise. Local artists/composers Meridian Shanewood and Ryann Daisy Swimmer support.
“Pavane” (Music Video) - Video courtesy of MIZU’s. official YouTube Channel.
MIZU
From gossamer harmonic textures to lush orchestral washes, MIZU builds expansive soundscapes through her singular cello playing. Her signature stratiform style of composition, melding self-recorded layers of her instrument with electronic manipulation and experimental production, explores themes of transformation and the infinite possibilities within queerness. Forest Scenes, MIZU’s latest full-length, is an acknowledgment of the mystery of transcendent experiences and the thrills of self-discovery. The record deftly interweaves the organic and the synthetic, its wide range of sonic densities a reflection of its diverse origins. MIZU’S debut album Distant Intervals, released in Spring 2023 on NNA Tapes, received critical praise and attention from platforms such as Bandcamp Daily, New Sounds, Stereogum, I Care If You Listen, Foxy Digitalis, and Them, and landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Classical Crossover charts.MIZU’s performance highlights include opening for Tim Hecker at Pioneer Works in New York, a performance at The Noguchi Museum, and appearances in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Washington DC. Upcoming engagements include a performance at Rewire 2024 in The Hague, Netherlands and a debut performance at The Cedar in May!
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OHYUNG
ROBERT OUYANG RUSLI is an Asian American film composer & artist based in Brooklyn, NY. They have written music for films premiering at TIFF, SXSW, Sundance, Curaçao IFFR, BAMCinématek, as well as exhibitions featured in the Queens Museum and BAM Next Wave Festival. They are the recipient of the 2017-2018 Van Lier Fellowship for Music Composition, 2021 ASCAP Jimmy Van Heusen Award, 2021 Pioneer Works Music Resident, and a 2022 BAFTA USA Breakthrough Fellow.They recently scored A24's upcoming film Problemista written and directed by Julio Torres. They also scored the newly released Hulu film Bruiser and the Gotham Award and Independent Spirit nominated film Test Pattern, several episodes of Hulu's Your Attention Please, as well as the Sundance Film Festival award winning short films Bambirak and Rest Stop.
They produce experimental and political rap music under the name OHYUNG. Their first album Untitled (Chinese Man with Flame) was released by Deathbomb Arc. In 2020, OHYUNG released their sophomore album PROTECTOR (Chinabot), an experimental rap cross-genre collision course through distorted 808s, pitch-shifted rapping, frenetic pop energy, and atmospheric loops. They recently released their noise record GODLESS in collaboration with percussionist Matt Evans, and most recently their two hour ambient record imagine naked!, described by Popmatters as “one of the most thoughtful, cathartic ambient records of the recent era, powering through emotional walls to produce an album as daring in sheer ambition as it is rendering in its effect."
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MERIDIAN SHANEWOOD
Minneapolis-based guitar player and Dollhouse Trans Teatime host.
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RYANN DAISY SWIMMER
Ryann Daisy Swimmer is an American composer, performer, and curator from Minneapolis, Minnesota, whose musical ethos focuses on the in-between, the blurred lines, and the insignificant. As a composer, Daisy brings her knowledge of theory-heavy composition and instinctive popular music together to create music that could be categorized as classically-influenced experimental music, “indie-classical”, or something else entirely.
The same philosophy is used in her curation and performing, which focus heavily on DIY aesthetics. Performances of her works for guitar and pedalboard are more suited for basements, living rooms, and guerrilla shows than traditional concert halls. Daisy has worked with local labels Corrector Records and Æther Tapes, written for and performed with Zeitgeist new music ensemble, and was the 2021 recipient of the American Composers Forum’s Minnesota Music Creator Award.
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