Leila Bordreuil

Few people use such a diverse range of creative approaches as Leila Bordreuil. The New York-based cellist is an accomplished classical instrumentalist and is also adept at extended techniques, as well as using synthesizers and subjecting her instrument to drastic electronic manipulations. Her specialty is playing techniques where her instrument produces sounds that, theoretically speaking, it should not be capable of.

It is with these that her groundbreaking album Not an Elegy (2021) is associated, with recordings of two purely acoustic performances from the lockdown days, in which incredible timbres emerge from the cello. The instrument sounds electronic at times, doubled or tripled at others, simulating ambient here, noise there. Subsequent recordings then develop the cello's interplay with electronics or predominantly electronic work, which, especially on last year's 1991 recording, Summer, Huntington Garage Fire, is beautifully hallucinatory.

Bordreuil's work spans the fields of contemporary composed music, free improvisation and sound art, and he has collaborated with Lea Bertucci, Susan Alcorn and Kim Gordon.

The concert will take place in collaboration with Punctum - Krásovka.