The Lavra will host an unforgettable evening that will change how you think about music, art, and performance.  Houston-based sound artist Rebecca Novak together with SF-based artist Ivy Woods present a duet titled “Waveform Reversal” in which they translate light waves into sound waves and vice versa through the use of a 16mm projector and cornet.  We will gather at 7:30pm for drinks and the performance will start a little after 8. The event is free and open to all Lavra friends.  We encourage people to bring a drink to share and a dessert.

Here is more about the performance: Inspired by Yvonne Rainer’s Hand Movie and Homemade, Trisha Brown’s historic projected dance performance, Woods’ hand and objects become gestural surfaces that animate and redirect the light of a 16mm projector back into the projector’s sound head, reading its flickers like a sound-generating score while dispersing the remaining light in an iridescent shadow-dance. The duo’s material vocabulary transfigures simple binary parameters: on/off, light/dark, sound/silence are expanded through a gradient spectrum of fine-grained tonal shifts, articulated mechanical noise and subtle feedback of acoustic waveforms as Novak’s malleable utterances dovetail, collide and juxtapose with Woods’ projectors-as-instruments in a ceaseless coaxing of pattern and form.