Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

Event:
Live @ LOW END | Evicshen

Victoria Shen a.k.a. Evicshen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and inventor based in San Francisco. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the materiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Shen's music eschews conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones. She is the Summer 2023 Sound Artist-in-Residence at Bemis Center.

Shen is notably the inventor of Needle Nails, acrylic nails with embedded turntable needles allowing her to play up to 5 grooves of a record at once. Shen's DIY approach extends beyond just instruments but also music releases. Her debut LP, Hair Birth, features copper album art that transforms the cover into a loudspeaker through which the record can be played. Recently, Shen has started releasing hand-made resin records embedded with found materials, each piece functions not only as playable music media but as unique art objects.

Event Type
FRIENDraising
Event Setting
At Nonprofit's Location
Where

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
United States

When
Thursday, June 15th, 2023, 8pm - 9pm
Duration of 1 hour