Events . Maria Chávez [Lima, Peru/NYC] live performance on four turntables

Maria Chávez [Lima, Peru/NYC] live performance on four turntables

NYC-based, Lima-born abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ internationally known for her groundbreaking techniques
Concert by Edgar Um
Wood Street Galleries 601 Wood St. Pittsburgh
All Ages $0

Join us on Thursday October 10th at Wood Street Galleries for a performance by Maria Chávez—a NYC-based, Lima-born abstract turntablist, sound artist, and DJ internationally known for her groundbreaking techniques. Coincidence, chance, and failures are themes that unite her work across mediums, including improvised performance, sound and marble sculpture, visual art, and book objects. Her large scale sound & multi-media installations along with other works have been shown at the Getty Museum @gettymuseum , the JUDD Foundation @juddfoundation , Documenta 14 in Kassel @documenta14 , Germany and HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel) @hek_basel amongst many other institutions around the world. Chávez, the only abstract turntablist in the world who performs with the rare RAKE Double Needle, brings her inimitable style to Pittsburgh for a truly unique experience where she will perform using 4 turntables.

📅 Date: Thursday, October 10th
🕗 Time: 7 PM – 10PM (Doors open at 7pm)
📍 Location: Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
🌟DJ Edgar Um will will play vinyl records before the performance
🌟Chávez will perform at 9PM

FREE and Open to the Public.

This performance is presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and organized by Edgar Um Bucholtz with special thanks to The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
For 30 years, Wood Street Galleries has been a vital platform for innovative and experimental art, offering unique exhibitions and boundary pushing programs that engage the local community.
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Maria Chávez
Born in Lima, Peru and based in NYC, Maria Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Coincidence, chance and failures are themes that unite her work across mediums, including improvised performance, sound and marble sculpture, visual art, book objects and an extensive history with multi-channel installation. Her approach is rooted in Deep Listening, a form of embodied listening developed by her late mentor Pauline Oliveros.
Maria is the only abstract turntablist in the world who performs with a rare needle known as the RAKE Double Needle. This special device contains two needles on one head, allowing it to read two different segments of a single record at the same time. Paired with her inimitable ability to create unforgettable sonic experiences from shards of broken records, each performance is truly unique.
Maria’s practice is profoundly expansive, responsive and curious. Her work has been featured and supported by a myriad of institutions over the past decades including Rewire Festival, Counterflows Festival, Donau Festival, MoMA PS1, The Getty, The Wire Magazine (Cover, April 2023), DOCUMENTA 14, the JUDD Foundation, Cambridge University Press and many, many more. Chavez’s 2012 book, Of Technique: Chance Procedures on Turntable has garnered a reputation as both an academic resource on turntablism and a foundational text for a new generation of turntablists.

Related Entities: Edgar Um Wood Street Galleries
Tags: Electronic Experimental Turntablism