Mello / Koch

Two days of improvised music and poetry.
Marina Mello’s harp screeches. Luca Koch writes poems about bubbling, humming, and trembling.
About pressure. About heat. About movements beneath the surface.
We seem to be living in a giant pressure cooker.
It’s getting hotter. The pressure is rising.
Don’t let anyone lift the lid.

So let’s let off some steam.
In sound.
In language.
In air turbulence and sound waves.
Carte Blanche artists Marina Mello and Luca Koch have put together two bands for this event that improvise in a fresh, urgent, and powerful way. They grab hold of the words, drive them forward, break them down, and carry them onward. The poems buzz. The music responds. We all hum along.
Songs of sound clouds accumulate. It hisses, crackles, throbs, and pushes its way through the room. Fragments gather, condense, and dissolve again. No lid. No valve. Just two days of controlled loss of control.