Concerts L.E.V. Sunday September 20th. KELLY MORAN y NAO 'THE CLUSTERs'

KELLY MORAN. live AV

Kelly Moran is a pianist and producer from New York who has spent her career excavating the sonic possibilities of the piano through extended techniques, prepared piano, and electronic experimentation. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with an array of visionary contemporaries including FKA twigs, Yves Tumor, Kelsey Lu, Oneohtrix Point Never, and the Avalanches. 

Her acclaimed solo work explores the intersection of acoustic performance and technology, particularly through the Yamaha Disklavier player piano, of which she has been an official Yamaha Artist since 2018. Following the critically praised Bloodroot, Ultraviolet, Vesela, and Moves in the Field, Moran returns to LEV Matadero with Don't Trust Mirrors, an album that blends synthesizers and prepared piano to reflect on perception, transformation, and the search for self. An immersive journey towards self-reconnection and coming back into focus.

NAO. THE CLUSTERs. Spanish Premiere

“The dancers are fools, the watchers are fools. If both are fools, why not dance?”Awa Odori son

In pale white light, the dry sound of wood strikes the floor. Eight small machines, each standing on six legs, wander like insects across a circular field of light, casting shadows as they move. At the center, a performer wears geta — traditional Japanese wooden sandals embedded with sensors. Each step becomes a signal, passing through the robots, electronic sound, and images projected onto the floor.

As the space darkens, the robots begin to glow red from within, one by one. The performer stamps the floor. The machines stop, march, drift, and gather, while sound, light, and projection spread through the space.

Is it a march, or a dance? Between humans, machines, sound, and image, a temporary festivity emerges.

NAOABS is a Japan-born ARTIST-INVANDOR based in France and active internationally. Through Japanese folk thought, he redefines robots and creates performances in which sound, image, and bodily movement interact. In his works, the relationship between performer and robot transforms sound and image in real time, allowing the outlines of society and structure to emerge within a rhythmic space marked by techno-noise.