C. Spencer Yeh
C. Spencer yeh
Thursday, march 6, 2025 at 7pm
Tufts University
Granoff Music Center (Fischer Performance Space)
20 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
FREE | 7pm exhibition tour, 8pm music
Non-Event and the Tufts University Art Galleries and Department of Music present a solo set by experimental musician and artist C. Spencer Yeh. Yeh will present improvisations on violin, voice, and electronics. The performance is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Impossible Music, where Yeh’s installation World of Music will be on view through April 20th.
There will be a free curatorial tour of the Impossible Music exhibition in advance of the performance at 7pm next door to the Granoff Music Building in the Aidekman Arts Center.
About the artist
C. Spencer Yeh is an experimental artist, improviser, and composer. Since 2020, Yeh has performed for The Kitchen NYC, The Renaissance Society with ESS Chicago, Casa del Lago UNAM MX with Jacob Wick and Bonnie Jones, Jazz em Agosto Lisbon PT with Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, Blank Forms with Raven Chacon and Che Chen, and both solo and with Luke Stewart/Leila Bordreuil’s Feedback Ensemble for Roulette NYC. He presented new video works and performances for both ISSUE Project Room NYC, and the Bemis Center Omaha NE. Yeh also exhibited with Anthology Film Archives, Loong Mah NYC, Bánh Mì Verlag online, 5th Floor/Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, and participated in Nick Klein’s “Bring the Flowers to the Theatre” at Sara’s NYC. In 2021 he organized a karaoke event for Creative Time and Rashid Johnson’s “Red Stage” NYC project, and started a key music duo with Kwami Winfield. In 2019, Yeh received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award. Yeh is on the advisory board for Montez Press Radio, is a contributing editor for BOMB magazine and Triple Canopy, and was a former programmer/trailer editor for Spectacle Theater, a microcinema in Brooklyn NY. This will be his first Boston-area performance since 2017.
