Bitchlovsky Storms the Castle

Bitchlovsky Storms the Castle brings together two exciting cutting-edge improvisors from disparate musical realms. Laurel Pardue hails from the Augmented Instruments Lab where she developed the award winning svampolin, a hybrid electro-acoustic violin, that is a functional decomposition and recomposition of the violin designed to play, present, feel like, and even sound like a violin, but can equally sound completely unlike a violin. She teams up with master vocal improviser Kate Smith.  Kate uses her voice as a dexterous instrument that traverses all the way from melody to sonic textures while using movement and space to inspire sound from an embodied perspective, often creating performances that toe the line between music, dance, and theatre.  The end result is an interdisciplinary improvisation crashing through traditional walls spanning the range from fully acoustic to fully electronic, and much in between.