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Brent Arnold: You Are Psychic: Music for Strings and Metals

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TICKETS: $10 advance / $15 door

Brent Arnold presents a Leap Day concert of new music for string quintet, handbells, kalimbas, voice, and electronics, bringing together heavy minimalism, art song, spirit voices, and orgone energy.

Featuring a new set of music entitled You Are Psychic, selections from the upcoming show Rules to Follow in Cloud Engineering, and pieces from the album Night, Exquisite. Many will be performed for the first time.

Musicians include Karen Waltuch, Meaghan Burke, Adam Moss, Luke Shirock, and Brent Arnold.

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Brent Arnold is a cellist and composer known for integrating electronics, unusual instrumental techniques, improvisation, and influences from Africa and the Middle East.

He is a founding member of Dave Malloy's Ghost Quartet, and his original cello music is featured in three seasons of Louis C.K.'s hit show Louie. He has worked with the Antlers, Reggie Watts, Eyvind Kang, DJ/Rupture, Jherek Bischoff, Wayne Horvitz, Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, and Filastine, among many others. His latest solo album, Night, Exquisite, was called "a journey" and "a beautiful record" by Vice magazine. He has performed as a solo artist throughout North America, Western Europe, and Japan.

Brent studied the cello with Walter Gray (Kronos Quartet) and violinist Michael White (John Handy, Pharoah Sanders). He resides in Brooklyn, NY.

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