"Music for a Cyborg Piano"
A performance featuring Smokey Emery and Uxelite

Saturday, March 15th, Doors at 7pm
Performances start at sunset (7:30) and will consist of two solo performances each around 30 minutes long and then a collaborative set for the final 30 minutes

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Utilizing Cisneros’ cyborgian prepared piano, Co-Lab Projects presents a site-specific set of performances by Smokey Emery (Daniel Hipolito) and Uxelite (Juan Cisneros) activating the sound sculptures of “Tethered Ashes” as their sound system. 

Since seventeen, Daniel Hipólito has been capturing, fragmenting, and reconfiguring his life experiences through tape manipulation as Smokey Emery. Equipped with recording devices, Hipólito has made a career out of documenting and transforming life’s everyday chapters into meaningful vignettes of self-reflective audio-journalism. smokeyemery.bandcamp.com www.instagram.com/smokeyemery

Juan Cisneros is a multidisciplinary artist/musician born, living, and working in Austin Texas. His work addresses our relationship to technology, media, and how culture and memory are shaped through music, sound, and the mediated image. Juan received his BFA from the University of Texas in 2006 with a focus on video and performance and is a current MFA candidate in Music/Sound at Bard College. Juan contributed to the artist collective the Totally Wreck Production Institute between 2004-2012 producing EIHITV, a public access television show, and a string of performances and group shows utilizing humor and speculative fiction to grapple with internet culture and corporeality. Juan has exhibited and performed locally with OK Mountain, MASS Gallery, ATM, The Visual Art Center at the University of Texas, Las Cruxes, NMASS Festival, Hyperreal Film Club, and The Contemporary Austin. International shows and collaborations include working with Future Gallery, Space 1026, and Interstate Projects. https://ju4n.bandcamp.com/