Alternating Lunes

Alternating Lunes is a project of collaboration between Siamak Anvari, Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, and Leslee Smucker. Alternating Lunes sculpt soundscapes out of metal leaves, trembling diaphragms, and the myriad strands of steel wire, bowhair, and copper cables that stitch them all together. Sharing a mutual obsession with materiality and vibration, they craft prepared violins, speakers, and other fantastical hybrid instruments, inviting these materials and their resonances into an ongoing practice of collaborative composition. As these illusory voices merge and meld, Alternating Lunes explore acoustic topographies that shift seamlessly from metallic rattling to buzzing drones to mechanical ostinatos. (text KTF)