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Lonny Hoffmann - And I, And I Booklet & CDr
Oberlin's Hoffmann needles down into Fluxus type performance/sound happenings. Recent performances in China & the UK proved that this young 'un ain't yr average bone headed yank. No sir. They know all about the power of the hum of a room. The clunk of a chair. Minimal tones. Space. Focus.
Comes with a booklet of recent collages of black & white abstractions.
Breathe deep.
"Multi track recordings of overwhelming and exhausting situations recorded over the past year. Used laptop, objects, amplified zither, portable turntable, bluetooth transducers, fans."
-LH
Edition of 50
Special show
Wednesday Eve
April 29
Doors at 6:30
Wolf Eyes
(special Aaron / Nate / Inzane Johnny Trio set)
Opening sets by:
Rogers/Williams/Picard Trio
Hoffmann / Biggs Duo
Music at 7pm sharp
Show over by 9pm
$10-$20 donation
Limited Space
All ages / BYOB
Lonny Hoffmann & Zhao Ziyi
As a multimedia artist studying religious artworks and their purposes in Oberlin, Ohio, an awakening occurred in the foyer of a Thai restaurant (as they often do), leading Hoffman to develop an interest in the tight connection between the unknowable and the everyday. The challenge, if not impossibility, of creating largely objective and pure representations of extremely subjective, personal situations and events, using a deliberately unfixed array of materials, is the basis of his work.
Zhao Ziyi was born in Beijing in 2007 with a simple sound and a difficult-to-use body. His debut solo CD Sorry (Sub Jam 2025) uses “embarrassed silence” to illuminate the unbearable “meaninglessness of time.” The One, Two double-cassette (Sub Jam 2025) and The Cheapest Japanese Cuisine in the World (Zoomin’ Night 2025) — both by Nichijo (his duo with Yang Kuku of Ghostmass) — approach musicality with annihilation in their hearts and ought to be the one-two micro-gulp of The New Torpor. Ziyi has organized the You and Me Festival in Beijing every summer since 2023, and in 2024, co-founded the exceptionally small, multifaceted venue Xiaozu.
Lonny Hoffmann & Zhao Ziyi will perform on Sunday 19th at One Church
