Join composer and multimedia artist Anqi Liu for the release of her debut portrait album, Veiled Erosion (KAIROS). This special event features a live remix and improvisation of the full album, reimagined through Anqi’s modular synthesizer setup. Working with 32 audio splices from the original recordings, she transforms the material in real time through sampling and live processing.

Later in the set, Anqi’s longtime duo partner, Kyle Motl, will join on contrabass, weaving an improvisational dialogue with Anqi’s electronics and her performance on the Morin khuur, the traditional Mongolian fiddle.

This performance extends the sonic and cultural inquiries at the heart of Veiled Erosion, exploring thresholds between breath and bow, noise and tone, self and other.

From the KAIROS website:
Veiled Erosion, the debut album by Anqi Liu, invites listeners into a world of spectral nuance, cultural memory, and fragile connection. Her music breathes through thresholds—between noise and tone, breath and bow, self and other. In the closing Etude for Friends, Liu renders friendship as a sonic practice: intimate, unstable, and quietly transformative. Drawing from Mongolian long song and microtonal chamber traditions, she composes sound as a site of listening, learning, and being-together. Veiled Erosion is not about resolution but about staying with paradox—where sound becomes a trace of relation, and music a gentle method of knowing otherwise.
Listen: https://save-it.cc/hne/anqi-liu-veiled-erosion

Anqi Liu: @anqiliumusic
Kyle Motl: @kylemotl
Flyer design: Anqi Liu