Helen Gillet in Virtual Concert for "Mending the Sky"

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Acclaimed New Orleans cellist, composer, and improviser Helen Gillet—Gambit's 2014 pick for Big Easy Best Female Performer—is bringing her surrealist-archaeologist approach to synthesizing sounds and textures to accompany NOMA's new exhibition Mending the Sky. Weaving together a soundscape of cello, drum machine, sounds in nature, loop pedal, poetry, and storytelling, she will explore the vibrations of sonic disturbance: the tipping points where swollen rivers of human tension and natural imbalances flood the banks of an unsustainable society. Across a series of three solo performances, Gillet responds to quarantine, friction, and trauma in a search for homeostasis. Each performance will take place within the exhibition galleries for Mending the Sky and will stream for free across NOMA's social media channels. 6 pm. noma.org.