Mike Munson (upup/Over) & composer May Klug perform Live at the Carnegie

About this event

upup/OVER is a musical alter-ego of Mike Munson (Winona, MN)

featuring acoustic, instrumental guitar with an interstellar focus. Inspired

by time and space and the distance between humans and nature,

upup/OVER is an exploration of big issues through the lens of

American primitive guitar. To accompany the meditative movements,

images will be projected from the Webb telescope, an observatory

instrument that orbits the Sun 1 million miles away from Earth, studying

every phase in the history of the universe. May Klug is a Minneapolis-

based composer/performer and improviser whose deep relationships

with pieces of audio equipment and electronic instruments are a

bridge through which she explores the networks of technological

development, industry, and modern social life. 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.