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Public Speaking | Eve Maret | Andie Billheimer

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is the solo project of Brooklyn sound artist and songwriter Jason Anthony Harris. He uses voice, found objects, and electronics to make soulful modern music. He balances adventurous methods with an intimate compositional aesthetic. Harris grew up on a Christmas tree farm in central Florida, and came to New York City in 2004 to get his start in music. He formed bands ranging from indie rock to instrumental improvisational noise-rock before starting a solo career. The accompaniment of an acoustic guitar eventually expanded into pedals, keyboard, and electronics, before he abandoned the guitar in live sets completely. He improvised his performances with processed voice and found objects, interacting with the space and the audience, trying to create spontaneous moments to share in these intimate small rooms, galleries, and basements. These experiments led him back to songwriting, and equipped with new tools and approaches to sound, he took on the moniker Public Speaking in 2012.

Eve Maret is a Nashville-based experimental artist and composer who employs a wide array of electronic media and techniques in her various disciplines, exploring the possibilities of personal and communal healing through creative action. To Eve, the act of creating is a wholehearted “Yes.” She is devoted to creating and performing in a way that is inherently artful, emotionally raw, and transcendent. Drawing inspiration from nineteenth-century orchestral and choral works, the Fluxus movement, Kosmische Musik and funk, Eve makes use of digital and modular synthesizers, a vocoder, clarinet, electric bass, guitar, and field recordings to create works that range from lush cinematic compositions to space disco. Eve’s music practice is a conversation with her numerous curiosities, manifested in the form of video art, drawing, dance, ritual, and cymatics.

is a composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer in Nashville, TN. Their work exists at an intersection where organic sounds collide with artificial sounds, often weaving a mosaic of fragmented influences such as kosmiche, concrète, new wave, and 20th century electronica. Since developing a background playing in experimental jazz and chamber ensembles, they have been most active doing solo drone improvisations and fronting Body Electric, an experimental pop duo with a fixation on drum machines, old keyboards and concepts like hauntology. This word, which was coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in Spectres of Marx, represents a phantom presence of cultural/collective visions for the future which exist in a perpetual state of non-being after being lost to modernity. For Billheimer, this synthesis of nostalgia and futurism functions to satisfy an internal yearning to integrate pieces of yesterday’s vision into the framework of today’s reality.

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