Joanna Mattrey

Join us for a night of experimental performance, strings and songcraft, featuring a trio of innovative artists from LA and NYC: Lu Coy, Joanna Mattrey and DAYS, the duo of Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley.

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**Lu Coy** (they/them) is a queer mixed media artist and musician of Mexican and Ashkenazi Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles, California. Known for their mastery of woodwinds, elegant use of electronics, and agile vocals, Coy embraces modern technologies and compositional techniques, while mining inspiration from ancient texts, stories, and musical traditions. They have been featured prominently in various contemporary theatrical and operatic works across the country, and their newest composition “Becoming the Moon,” was recently commissioned and premiered by the Getty Research Institute.

**Joanna Mattrey** is a violist and composer working in free improvisation and new music. She uses extended techniques, modern compositional approaches, and electronic alterations to challenge the conventions of the viola. Joanna creates an embodied performance practice centered on ceremony and ritual. Recent solo works include, 'Soulcaster' (Notice Recordings), ‘Dirge’ (Dear Life Recs 2021), 'Veiled’ (Relative Pitch Records, 2020). Mattrey has had residencies with Roulette, Watermill, ISSUE Project Room, Banff, 14th Street Y, Wild Project, and MoMa PS1's ALLGOLD. Mattrey has performed with icons Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Threadgill, Miya Masaoka, Marc Ribot, H Sinno, John Zorn, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Crash Ensemble, and Irish National Opera. Recent press and album reviews by The Wire, The Chicago Reader, Bandcamp Daily, Noise Not Music, and more. 'Joanna Mattrey is becoming a force of nature' (Foxydigitals) www.joannamattrey.com

**DAYS** is Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley, a band, a theatrical project, and a couple that lives in an apartment in Brooklyn. They bring cello and voice together to create mystical songs and uncanny theater. Their latest EP, "Do I," was produced by Kyp Malone.

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2220 Arts

2220 Arts + Archives

Joanna Mattrey, DAYS, Lu Coy

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Los Angeles

We usher in the Arab.AMP 2025 season at The Lab with Strider—the longtime duo of Joanna Mattrey and Steve Long. The group’s alchemical procedures fuse together field recordings, found objects, derelict instruments, keyboards, bowed strings, to create ambient soundscapes in miniature. Our evening opens with St Celfer, the folk, glitch, improvisational project of john macdougall parker who asserts, "There is a lot of noise today—we just need to hear the music within it."

Directed by Leyya Mona Tawil, Arab.AMP is a platform for experimental live art, music and ideas by artists of the SWANA diaspora, the region, and our allied communities. The Arab.AMP 2025 season highlights practices of listening and action; through sound, performance and conversation.

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