Leila Bordreuil is a French-American cellist, composer and sound-artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She accesses concepts as diverse as noise, contemporary classical, free jazz, and experimental traditions but adheres to none of them. Her music mixes deep melancholia with harsh noise-walls at ear-bleeding levels, and was described by The New York Times as “steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities.”

Lee Ranaldo co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981, and has been active for the past 35 years recording, performing, collaborating with numerous others, producing discs, exhibiting visual art and publishing volumes of poetry and journals. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its “Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list. Both artists share a compelling interest in transcending sonic boundaries, vividly reflected in their ongoing and ever-evolving collaboration.

medium. is a NYC-based “death ambient” and hardcore project by non-binary interdisciplinary creative partners yaz lancaster & gg200bpm. They perform longform experimental compositions and ritualized improvisations utilizing unique electroacoustic instrumentation: suspended buzz saws, handmade oxygen tank bells, violin, voice(s), synthesizers, keyboards, sample(r)s, DJ controllers, and sequencers. Their live music considers tension and release; spiritual energies; and collective experiences – situated in the extremes of harsh noise and glacially-paced ambient drones. As a DJ-ing duo, medium. performs distinctive high-energy, uptempo b2b sets that coalesce gabber/NYC hardcore with Black American dance & global percussive music.

This modular set-up and versatility allows them to present work in a variety of spaces and aesthetics ranging from DIY noise shows, night clubs, community radio, and museum galleries – they’ve performed at Nowadays, Pioneer Works, New Ear Festival (Fridman Gallery), Gaudeamus Festival, The Lot Radio, Princeton University, Trans-Pecos, Night Club 101, Operator Radio, Intercomm, and Mood Ring, among other spaces.