An evening with Helen Gillet

Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello. The core of her work is solo performance with live looping, layering cello parts and vocal lines. Rhythmic figures emerge with bowed or plucked ostinatos or a variety of rubbing and slapping on the body of the cello, then enhanced with melodies played or sung in her haunting alto.

After the performance, Gillet will a Q&A about her looping cello techniques and myriad of musical influences.

Tickets $10-20 (sliding scale), available at the door. Doors 7:30 pm, show at 8 pm. BYO or sample what’s on hand.