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Lori Goldston by Kelly O.
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FRIDAY, SEPT 26
SOUND, LIGHT, MOVEMENT:
Solo Cello + Handmade Film
SATURDAY, SEPT 27
FEEDBACK SONATA:
A String Trio Concert with Melanie Dyer, Lori Goldston, and Gwen Laster
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Lori Goldston at Btomic in LaSpezia, Italy. Photo by Jacopo Benassi.
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SOUND, LIGHT, MOVEMENT:
SOLO CELLO + HANDMADE FILM
An evening of live music by experimental composer and cellist Lori Goldston, scoring a program of silent films curated by Interbay Cinema Society (ICS) in Seattle.
Filmmaker and ICS executive director, Caryn Cline, assembled a roster of 11 films specifically for Lori Goldston. They are drawn from ICS’s Engauge Film Festival’s recent archives and evoke landscapes near and far, internal and surrounding. |
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| Lori Goldston toured this special collaboration through Europe earlier this year before bringing it to Kaatsbaan audiences. Filmmakers featured include: Bill Basquin (US), Jon Behrens (US, 1964–2022), Derek Jenkins (US/Canada), Anna Kipervaser (US), Lucie Leszez (France) + Stefano Canapa (Italy), Rocío Mesa (Spain), Wenhua Shi (US), Vicky Smith (UK), Kalpana Subramanian (US), and Leandro Varela (Argentina).
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26: 7 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
70 minutes
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors) |
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| In a way, I’m extremely traditional. But I think about it very differently—like, what can I get out of this thing?…Sometimes people are like, “that’s not what you’re supposed to do with a cello!” But I don’t do anything all that far-out, in terms of the actual instrument and how I am with it, physically. But the way I think about the cello is very, very expanded, for sure.
—Lori Goldston, interviewed in
The Quietus
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| Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer, and teacher from Seattle. A relentless inquirer, Lori has created a voice on cello that is singular, deeply textured, and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought.
Lori was the touring cellist for Nirvana 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York. She’s also worked with David Byrne and Cat Power, among many others, and is a floating member of Earth.
Her work has been commissioned by and/or performed at the Kennedy Center, Sydney Festival, Cineteca Nacional de México, WNYC, The Stone, among other venues, large and small. |
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L to R: Lori Goldston photo by A McDonald; Melanie Dyer photo by Peter Gannushkin; Gwen Laster photo by Tom Moore.
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| FEEDBACK SONATA: A STRING TRIO CONCERT WITH MELANIE DYER, LORI GOLDSTON, AND GWEN LASTER
Feedback Sonata is the newest work by composer/cellist Lori Goldston for string trio, written to be performed with violist Melanie Dyer and violinist Gwen Laster. Performing together for the first time for this bespoke concert that closes out the festival, these three powerhouse musicians combine to embody the essential convergence of jazz, classical, folk, and experimental music. Their collective histories include performing with and recording credits spanning Sun Ra Arkestra, Aretha Franklin, Nirvana, Harlem Arts Ensemble, David Byrne, Rihanna, Tyler the Creator, Earth, Jon Batiste, and so many more.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 7 PM
$45 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
60 minutes
Meadow Stage (outdoors) |
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ABOUT MELANIE DYER AND
GWEN LASTER
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| Melanie Dyer is a violist/composer who finds freedom in multiple artistic disciplines as means of exploring sonic language and possibility, reflecting and responding to lived experience in the 21st-century zeitgeist. Her body of work includes viola performance, music composition, theater, poetry/prose, and visual arts. |
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| Gwen Laster is an adventurous composer, arranger, and orchestrator, and was just awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. Laster is a classically-trained artist/violinist with a deep appreciation for America’s musical history and a scholar of African-American musical heritage, plus a socially conscious activist and educator who understands the power of music to reach and touch everyday people. Her playing is poignant, descriptive, and always relevant. |
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FREE PROGRAMS AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT FESTIVAL
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Portia Munson, Flower Mask.
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| PERFORMANCE LENDING LIBRARY
Two audio-guided, physical experiences adapted for Kaatsbaan’s campus, each under 30 minutes. Use your smart phone/tablet (data streaming required) and earbuds/headphones, and be led into a range of embodied performance practices with your imagination as the site of the artwork. READ MORE
2025 VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION
Open Mondays to Fridays, 9AM–5PM and two hours before festival events. In Lobby Gallery and on grounds.Explore contemporary works by acclaimed, Hudson Valley and regional artists as well as two, newly installed bronze works by world renowned 20th-century sculptor, Gaston Lachaise. Contemporary artists include Neil Enggist, Freeda Electra Handelsman, Daisuke Kiyomiya, Heidi Lanino, Ian McMahon, Portia Munson, Aurora Robson, and Jennifer Zackin. Curated by Hilary Greene.
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