Like a Villain (Holland Andrews)
with CymaSpace

Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Doors open at 7:30 pm
Performance at 8:00 pm

Please join The Art Gym for our final event at Marylhurst University — a special performance by Like a Villain (Holland Andrews). In collaboration with Cymaspace, a Portland non-profit headed by musician Myles de Bastion, Andrews will highlight the unique acoustics of an empty Art Gym through improvisational sound and voice work. The performance, “Valediction”, will be the final gesture within this historic architectural space in gratitude for 38 years of exhibition, performance, and regional artist support.

The venue is ADA compliant, and wheelchair accessible. ASL Interpreters, CART (Open Captioning) will be provided for Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing attendees. Contact us for other accommodation requests.

About Holland: Holland Andrews is an American extended technique vocalist, composer, and performer who works across Europe and the United States. Andrews is a musician who combines influences from contemporary opera, musical theater, and experimental genres such as ambient and noise music. Holland also performs under the stage name, Like a Villain.

Andrews has a focus on doing collaborations for dance, theater, and film, in addition to composing solo work. Their vocal style is known to traverse a vast terrain of textures ranging from opera to distorted vocalizations. Their composition style is marked by the multitude of dense vocal layers and textures used to weave together a sprawling emotional tapestry to command space for both dissonance and intimacy. Through collaborations has received accolades from the New York Times, Le Monde, La Republica, and continues to tour different festival worldwide. Holland Andrews is based in Portland, OR.

About Myles: Myles de Bastion, Artistic Director, Musician and Creative-altruist who develops technology and art installations that enables sound to be experienced as light and vibration. His work has appeared in the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland Art Museum and on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! Show. He has built large-scale installations for music festivals and Grammy-award winning jazz artist Esperanza Spalding.

A dual citizen of the UK and the United States, Myles grew up in England where he obtained a BA from University of Teesside (UK), focusing on computer science & animation and was the chairman of the Musician’s Society for two years.
He has taught at Austine School for the Deaf (VT) and at the world’s first Deaf Music Camp (MI), where he developed the curriculum and was responsible for the music and sound program.

In 2012 Myles moved to Portland OR and founded CymaSpace, a non-profit that facilitates arts & cultural events that are inclusive of the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing, where Myles further develops his technological artistic works that translate sound into visual mediums. In 2015 Myles took his concepts into the commercial sector and founded Audiolux Devices, a technology company that now produces professional products featuring the synergy of light and sound.

Myles continues to live in Portland with his partner Kimberly and CODA daughters Zebra & Juniper.

This final event at Marylhurst University is possible thanks to the numerous donors that contributed to The Art Gym’s APPF (Art Production and Publication Fund).

https://www.cymaspace.org/
https://soundcloud.com/like-a-villain
http://myles.debastion.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/233787214072139/