Berlin presents an evening of electroacoustic exploration and deep listening. First, May Klug and Jo Kellen will collaborate as Green Button to present a gentle, 30-minute exploration of electroacoustic feedback for guitar, flute, synthesizer, and voice. No earplugs required! Then, pianist/composer Mary Prescott will process ritualistic audio patterns to explore the spiritual dimensions of physical sound.

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"...masterfully envisioned interdisciplinary work... a bright light cast forward." – Washington Post, “21 for '21: Composers and Performers Who Sound Like Tomorrow”

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Mary Prescott is a Thai American interdisciplinary artist, composer, and pianist who explores the foundations and facets of identity and social conditions through experiential performance. She is an awardee of the McKnight Composer Fellowship, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Music, the Princess Grace Award in Theater, NPN Creation and Development Fund, and a New Music USA Grant. Her recent residencies include Bogliasco, Loghaven, Camargo, VCCA and Lanesboro Arts. Mary holds piano performance degrees from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and the Manhattan School of Music. She is a Steinway Artist.

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May Klug is a Minneapolis-based composer/performer/improviser who explores the networks of technological development, industry, and modern social life through her deep relationships with pieces of audio equipment and electronic instruments. Her performances blend electroacoustic experimentalism with the visual aesthetics of pop, high-femme fashion, and camp theatrics.

May’s primary electronic collaborators are Casio CZ-101 synthesizers, through which she generates sounds that capture the natural process of memory loss in volatile RAM. She also has built a variety of feedback systems and works with Max/MSP. Her work celebrates the agency of these unpredictable machines.

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Jo Kellen is a founding member of art-punk projects the Florists and Products Band. These projects have released more than 10 collective albums and EPs since 2015. As a primary songwriter, lyricist, and performer, Jo's work has been praised by outlets such as The Current, Atwood Magazine, Racket, Brooklyn Vegan, and Midwest Action for its sharp wit and inventive arrangements. Along the way, they've traveled the country and shared stages with artists like Gang of Four, Deerhoof, A Savage, DEHD, and Water From Your Eyes.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.