Leila Bordreuil w/ Kepla

A French-American artist based in Brooklyn, Leila Bordreuil embraces the cello as a primary medium for crafting an intense music that moves fluidly between noise, contemporary composition, improvisation, and drone, without anchoring itself to defined canons. Bordreuil challenges conventional approaches to her instrument and uses extreme amplification to summon torrents of noise, tense stillness and a melancholic aura that courses through her sonic flow.

Her panoramic vision of form and genre is reflected in the diversity of her collaborative projects, which include artists such as Tamio Shiraishi (Fushitutsa), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Kali Malone, Laurel Halo, Drew McDowall (Coil), Zach Rowden (Tongue Depressor), Julia Santoli and Luke Stewart (Irreversible Entanglements).

Leila’s longstanding dedication to improvised music has led her to perform with musicians Marina Rosenfeld, Zeena Parkins, Bill Nace, Toshimaru Nakamura, Eli Kessler, Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, Nate Wooley, Susan Alcorn, Ingrid Laubrock, Joanna Mattrey, Michael Foster, C. Spencer Yeh, Aki Onda, Senyawa and many others.

Leila’s work has been showcased at The Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, The Stone, Barbican (London), Cafe Oto (London), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), LUFF Festival (Lausanne), Berlin Atonal, Unsound (Krakow), Centquatre (Paris), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris), Edition Festival (Stockholm), Control Club (Bucharest), KAII Theater (Brussels), KRAAK Festival (Belgium), Ftarri (Tokyo), Melbourne Recital Hall, and countless DIY basements across the USA.

Local support from Kepla