C. Spencer Yeh Performance with Non-Event

Presented in collaboration with Non-Event and on the occasion of Impossible Music, experimental musician and exhibiting artist C. Spencer Yeh will return to Boston for his first performance here in a decade. Yeh will present improvisations on violin, voice, and electronics at the Granoff Music Building, next door to the Aidekman Arts Center, where Yeh’s installation World of Music and Impossible Music will be on view through April 20th. 

 Join us for a curatorial tour of the exhibition in advance of the performance at 7pm. 

Presented in collaboration with Tufts Music Department and Non-Event. 

C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for interdisciplinary activities as an artist, improviser, and composer, and for his music project Burning Star Core. Since 2020, Yeh has performed for The Kitchen NYC, The Renaissance Society with ESS Chicago, Casa del Lago UNAM MX with Jacob Wick and Bonnie Jones, Jazz em Agosto Lisbon PT with Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, Blank Forms with Raven Chacon and Che Chen, and both solo and with Luke Stewart/Leila Bordreuil’s Feedback Ensemble for Roulette NYC. He presented new video works and performances for both ISSUE Project Room NYC, and the Bemis Center Omaha NE. Yeh also exhibited with Anthology Film Archives, Loong Mah NYC, Bánh Mì Verlag online, 5th Floor/Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, and participated in Nick Klein’s “Bring the Flowers to the Theatre” at Sara’s NYC. In 2021 he organized a karaoke event for Creative Time and Rashid Johnson’s “Red Stage” NYC project, and started a key music duo with Kwami Winfield. In 2019, Yeh received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award. Yeh is on the advisory board for Montez Press Radio, is a contributing editor for BOMB magazine and Triple Canopy, and was a former programmer/trailer editor for Spectacle Theater, a microcinema in Brooklyn NY. 

Non-Event is a Boston-based concert series devoted to the presentation of the finest in experimental, abstract, improvised, and new music from New England and around the world.