Latitudes 20

Avast! Latitudes has prepared a fresh mélange of acoustic and electronic experimentation for its 20th installment. New Haven’s Austin Larkin will transmogrify the violin into a tool to amplify the poetics of space while musical polymorphs Gerald Cleaver and Jean Carla Rodea jettison genre to careen through a dizzying array of sounds and influences in search of the ecstatic.

This concert took place on August 17, 2023 at St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco.

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Austin Larkin is a composer and violinist focusing on elements of tone within the interstices of fields, asymmetries, and patterns. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Drummer Gerald Cleaver, born and raised in Detroit, is a product of the city’s rich music tradition. He has performed or recorded with a wide variety of artists: Roscoe Mitchell, Tommy Flanagan, Matt Shipp, William Parker, Eddie Harris, Kevin Mahogany, Charles Gayle, Jacky Terrasson, Muhal Richard Abrams, Dave Douglas, Tim Berne, Jeremy Pelt, David Torn, Miroslav Vitous, and Bill Frisell, among others.

Jean Carla Rodea (b. in Mexico City) is a research-based interdisciplinary artist and educator currently living between Brooklyn, NY and San Francisco, CA. Her/their work involves a variety of disciplines and mediums such as music, sound, poetry, vocal performance and performance art, photography, video, movement, and sculpture. Her artistic practice deals with spaces and instances where problematic socio-political and cultural constructs are rendered visible through multimedia installations and performance.