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Carnegie Hill Concerts Presents:
Gladstone Deluxe
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2024 SEASON
Join us for our 2024 season, "Intersections,” as we explore together how music intertwines with key dimensions of our world–technology, mental health, and identity.
Program
“Budding Permutations”
Inspired from navigating the beginning stages of my dreadlock journey, this collection of music is born from feelings of spiritual nascence. As something that’s been a part of humanity since our inception, the locking process unfolds on a primordial timescale, and has everything to teach about the true natures of form, growth and conflict. “Budding Permutations” is a reflection on shifts in energy I’ve experienced thus far and a projection of dreams for future chapters.
Gladstone Deluxe (they/he) is a New York-based artist working with percussion and electronics. Their work takes form in recorded music, installations, and performances.
As a percussionist, Gladstone is interested in how conceptions and politics of time are embodied and can bleed into the social topography of a culture through rhythmic performance. As a technologist, they develop systems for the augmentation and amplification of percussive messages. His experimental approach towards composition and interface design is a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic.
In 2023, Gladstone released music with Black Techno Matters, is / was, DETOUR, Ongoing Box and Miscellaneous Records. Films that Gladstone scored were shown at the British Film Institute, a STARZ television premiere, the Hawai’i International Film Festival, and more. He's appeared in galleries and nightclubs across the East Coast and Midwest, including The Warhol Museum, Wallach Art Gallery, Chashama, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, with more to come in 2024, including appearances on the West Coast and a collaboration with Moog Synthesizers. Gladstone also keeps busy as the timbales player for Las Mariquitas, which was recently featured in Rolling Stone. Gladstone holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Columbia University, and is pursuing a Ph.D in Music Composition at Princeton University.
Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer cultural worker, composer, poet, painter, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and transdisciplinary performance artist. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She makes within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages of the drum and the braid. Lola is the creative director and percussion section leader for Las Mariquitas, NYC’s only Queer and Trans-centered Salsa band. They also play in the experimental performance trio Dendarry Bakery and in the Latin Rock group AVATAREDEN. They are a musician, dancer, practitioner, innovator, and eternal student in the Salsa, Bomba, Plena, and experimental music/performance traditions. Lola has performed across Turtle Island and Borikén. Their work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Playbill, and Aislin Magazine.
Photo Credit: Mark Talkington
Justin Kelly is a percussionist, DJ, and event producer exploring rhythm, movement, celebratory ritual, and improvisation. Their background as a classically trained percussionist (Carnegie Mellon University, Manhattan School of Music) has morphed into a practice centered on improvisation, spontaneous composition, and an appreciation for the almost-beautiful and the not-quite-right. Justin's recent projects include the techno-tinged free jazz quartet Datamaster, an EP of experimental club music under the alias Johnny Zoloft, and a forthcoming release in collaboration with DJ and producer Kiernan Laveaux. Hailing from the Washington, D.C. area, Justin lives in Pittsburgh where they organize the queer party UHAUL Disco alongside MIRA MIRA and Gladstone Deluxe.
Samira Mendoza is a transdisciplinary performance artist, curator, and educator based in Brooklyn. Their work centers improvisation through different mediums including sound, sculpture, organizing, and movement to investigate oppressive systems, familial history in Latin America and the Caribbean, and their personal experiences growing up in the Southern United States. Mendoza sees improvisation as an act of resistance, a space to reject formal structures and create new ideas. Their current projects include Dendarry Bakery, Las Mariquitas, Dyspheric, and the Uhaul Disco.
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