Performance: Cecilia Suhr

On the evening of Saturday, August 17 2024, we proudly hosted intermedia artist/multi-instrumentalist Cecilia Suhr (OH), saxophonist/improviser Danny Kamins (TX), multi-instrumentalist/improviser Gerard Cox (CMH), and percussionist/experimental electronic musician Aaron Putnam (CMH). Performance took place at the Old First Presbyterian Church (1101 Bryden Rd.). Video documentation: Nicolettecinemagraphics.
About the artist: Cecilia Suhr is an intermedia artist and researcher, multi-instrumentalist (violin/cello/voice/piano/bamboo flute), multimedia composer, interaction designer, painter, author, and improviser. She has received numerous awards in the fields of music, visual art, interactive media, and academic research. Her improvisational performance on the violin, cello, piano, and bamboo flute, as well as her voice, often interact with live electronics, video, or fixed media, transcending the boundaries between audience and performer, vision and sound, motion and stasis, digital and analog, and seen and unseen reality. Sometimes her performances become audience participatory works, honoring unity and group bonding while enhancing the intimate and embodied experience of her live performances. To date, she has used interactive techniques like color tracking, face tracking, and sound drawing in her intermedia performance works to create a distinctive audio-visual experience. In addition to the art installation and camera installation, she meticulously plans human-centered interactions. Her creative process results in a distinctive fusion of multiple media, including installation, video, performance art, and improvisation in an electro-acoustic musical style, which serves as the foundation for all the other media.