Six of Saturns | Cleo Reed
- 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Wednesday May 01, 2024
- Three Keys | Ace Hotel New Orleans
- 600 Carondelet St
- Free
Performance lab Sound Observatory New Orleans and Brooklyn-based sound composer, performer and multidisciplinary artist Cleo Reed meets us on stage for a night of music that transcends genre. Kick off the second weekend of Six of Saturns with Cleo on May 1.
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Cleo Reed is a sound composer, performer, and multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Their debut album project, “Root Cause,” was released in early 2023 receiving support from Bandcamp (Essential Releases), Vinyl Me Please (Rising), Pitchfork, The Wire, OkayPlayer, amongst others. Cleo has worked with the likes of Jon Batiste, developing software instruments for his “American Symphony” at Carnegie Hall. Cleo is also a recipient of the 2022 NYC Women’s Fund for Media Music and Theatre, a fellow as a part of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s Jazz is NOW: Curatorial Fellowship, and a selected composer as a part of the International Contemporary Ensemble’s “Call For ____” Commission Program, as well as a fellow in One Beat’s global residency tour program.
Cleo is an alumni of Harlem School of The Arts and a graduate of Berklee College of Music. At 19, Cleo Reed named themselves after Cleophus, their great-grandmother and a fellow Aquarius. Whether underground or academic, experimental or popular, they express musicianship guided by their radiance, femininity, and cyclical traumas.
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