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Cherilyn Tan is a musician-improviser, community-centered designer, and facilitator, originally from Malaysia, based in New York. Grounded in deep listening, her practice seeks to facilitate deepened presence and relations across time, memory and space, to move towards collective healing and liberatory worldbuilding.
As a pianist, she has played across a range of genres, from classical, latin jazz, to free/experimental improv, and more, including the Sun Ra Ensemble led by Ahmed Abdullah, and the Indian Ensemble led by Samir Chatterjee. She performs voice and electronics, live sound for performance, plays the flute, and writes songs. Her recent projects, such as the body, remembers, weave together voice-movement improvisation, somatic research, field recordings and electronics, grappling with themes of home, disconnection, grief and diasporic fractures.
As an interdisciplinary collaborator, Cherilyn works across mediums and textures, which take the forms of multisensorial and sound art installations, experimental video/projection pieces, improvisational and devised performances, site-specific and theatre-based works. She is interested in exploring experimental forms of sound, performance and instrument-making as channels for sonic liberation and accessing otherwise-imperceptible archives. Currently, Cherilyn facilitates attention practices at the Strother School of Radical Attention.
Lulu West is an NYC-based composer, improviser and educator. Her music is guided by rural queer and trans histories. Lulu is specifically fascinated with the entangling of prepared guitars, experimental field recording, and interview practices. Transexualism, embodied memory, guttural outbursts, and loss, are lenses in which she looks to create experiences of communal healing. Lulu’s main collaborative projects consist of: Polsky West (guitar duo), Duchess (noise-rock trio) and Bear Bear (a duo with percussionist Paul Sakai).
Her contemporary compositional works have been performed by ensembles and individuals such as, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, the International Contemporary Ensemble. She has performed at venues such as: Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, The PAC, Tippet Rise, The Memorial Art Gallery and more. Lulu is currently a lead teaching artist for the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers Program and Philharmonic Schools Program, and for the Community-Word Project.