Atim Opoka / Queen Drea / Dameun Strange

Thu, Feb 27

6PM DOORS 8PM SHOW Full food and beverage menu available the whole show. $15 ADVANCE (+taxes/fees) $22 AT THE DOOR (+taxes) Modulation En Noir a night of electronic works are focused on stories of the African diaspora, often exploring Afrofuturism themes. An experience of story telling through sounds, poetry, conversations, and love. Atim Opoka (They/She) is a Ugandan-American(Acholi) songwriter, vocalist, composer, producer, and teaching artist. Who fuses Afro-pop and alternative beats while embracing the power of transformative storytelling. Atim believes in the power of storytelling. Part of their current practice is decolonizing what is “Good Art” Challenging the power structures that decide what and whose stories get told. Life is art, and it is all around us. There is power in imagination, and being able to dream. To let your mind wander, and your heart feel. That is how they create their art. Queen Drea is a sound alchemist. Mixing up potions laced with looped natural and affected vocals, jagged rhythms, and found sounds, Queen’s compositions are often conceived under the auspices of improvisational settings which is where she thrives most.Voice-Loops N Effects creates conceptual soundscapes. By applying poetic and often metaphorical language to her lyrics and compositions, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way and likes to involve the audience in conversation as they accompany her on her musical journey. Her performances directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. With a conceptual approach, her work references love, pain, the feeling of not being “enough as a form of resistance against the "Normalcy" box people want to put her in. Dameun Maurice Strange is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer whose conceptual chamber works and electronic works are focused on stories of the African diaspora, often exploring Afrofuturism themes. Strange is compelled to express through sound, music, and poetry the beauty and resilience of the Black experience, digging into a pantheon of ancestors to tell stories of a triumph while connecting the past, present, and future. While his sound experiments have many dimensions, he uses West African polyrhythms, synthesizers, and other electronic tools, contemporary jazz harmonic explorations, and found sounds, field recordings and historic recordings to create modern afro-futurist performances that disrupt the notion of genre.