INSTRUMENT/TRAVELER’S ODE
Release Performance & Event
DATES
September 26 | 6:30PM PDT MUSIC PERFORMANCE - View on picatv.org
September 27 | 1:00–4:00 PM Instrument/Traveler’s Ode Installation and Book/Record Release at PICA Annex
For the safety of attendees and staff, the event will be drop-in/open house style, with staggered entrance, and limited capacity at any one time. Masks/face coverings will be required.
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Instrument is published by Fonograf Editions in collaboration with Antiquated Future Records who is releasing Traveler’s Ode. Preview/preorder here:
DESCRIPTION
Dao Strom’s Instrument/Traveler’s Ode is an experiment in multimodal poetics—inhabiting a synergistic blend of poetry, music, and visual art: the artist’s three forms of “voice.” Born in Vietnam and leaving the country at the age of two for Northern California, Strom’s life and work speaks to fragmentation—of/within selves, histories, cultures, groups of people, and places—yet within this configuring lies her art’s fluid mastery. Combining color photography, personal biography, and gripping, restless poetry, Instrument represents a unique melding of literature and art. The poems are augmented by an album, Traveler’s Ode, an interwoven series of textured, ethereal song-poems. Atmospheric yet weighted, minimalist yet lush, the album combines voice, electronics, piano, guitars, and field recordings from sources such as rivers, sea, jungle, and birds to create a deeply emotive song-cycle that explores themes of displacement, diaspora, and hauntings. Instrument/Traveler’s Ode is a collaborative book publication/music release from Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records.
For TBA: 20, Dao Strom will give an intimate performance of songs and visuals from Instrument/Traveler’s Ode, to be live-streamed on the 26th of September. The release will also be celebrated in the unique format of an installation of visual poetry and audio fragments (played on cassette decks) in PICA’s Annex, on the 27th of September from 1:00-4:00 PM PDT, where books and cassettes will be available for purchase to mark the project’s Portland release.