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Yomp is a performance piece featuring extended voice and microphone techniques, live-processed flutes, samples, feedback, fractured rhythms, and motion interfaces that both trigger and manipulate sound. The piece loosely plays with the idea of a march that repeatedly falls apart, furthering Baird’s investigation into sound’s outer dimensions through performance. Yomp embodies their signature tone that is simultaneously confrontational, visceral, ritualistic, and humorous.
“The general time pressures destroy all that has the character of a detour, all that is indirect, and thus makes the world poor in forms. Every form, every figure, is a detour. If walking lacks all hesitation, all pausing, then it freezes into a march.” – Byung-Chul Han
Ka Baird is an American recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and performer based in New York City. For more than twenty years, they have explored the outer dimensions of sound through performance. Extending far beyond their roots in the psychedelic folk movement of the early aughts, Baird is known for their raw, boundary-pushing solo performances that bridge experimental sound, performance art, and ritual. Their tool set in the live arena includes extended voice and microphone techniques, electronics, flute, and piano.