Live @ LOW END | Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Honer

FREE admission.

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Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer bring the distinctive dyad of modular synthesizer and viola together with grace and truth.

The title of their most recent album “Recordings from the Åland Islands” indicates the genesis of the project––a 2017 trip Chiu & Honer took to the Åland Islands (an archipelago in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland). Their goal initially was to help friends Jannika/Sage Reed barn raise a small hotel in Kumlinge (a group of islands with a population of around 320). The intention was, once completed, the hotel would also host artist residencies and workshops, creating a direct link between the islands & the USA. The concept of recording music in the archipelago came about as Honer & Chiu experienced the islands. They were immediately taken by the serene and strange quality of the place. The network of miniature islands is traversed by ferry which, according to Chiu, “casts a surreal horizontal movement through space and time, with islands shifting into and out of periphery, totally still and calm, yet always in motion.”

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer originally met in Chicago as participants in a performance of Terry Riley’s “In C” (an event that is organized annually by minimalist ensemble Bitchin Bajas). Both were active members of the notoriously inter-connected improvisational and experimental music scenes there.

Jeremiah Chiu is Los Angeles-based artist, musician, educator, and community organizer. Chiu’s hybrid practice often operates under his studio moniker, Some All None, where projects lie at the intersection of art, music, technology, and publishing. As a musician, Chiu participated in the electronic and experimental music communities in Chicago, playing in Icy Demons, Chandeliers, and Axis:Sova, in addition to his own projects. His move to Los Angeles in 2014 refocused his practice as a electronic music composer and sound-artist, where he now performs and composes solo as well as with variety of collaborators including Celia Hollander, Booker Stardrum, Ben Babbitt, Dustin Wong, Takako Minekawa, and Sam Prekop.

Marta Sofia Honer is a viola and violin performer, session player, and educator in Los Angeles. Working in both classical and contemporary fields, Honer’s versatility in different musical settings has garnered her credits alongside Beyoncé, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Chloe x Halle, Angel Olsen, Fleet Foxes, including four Grammy nominations. She regularly records for film and television, including scores for The Good Place, Promising Young Woman, Deadly Illusions and Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Image: Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Honer; Photo: Elizabeth Weinberg; Courtesy of the artists.