Local noise intoners Max Gong, Martin Schmidt & Obie Feldi will be opening for Senso di Voce from Buffalo NY!

Senso di Voce is Megan Kyle (oboe, English horn) & Esin Gunduz (voice, composition, tremolo harmonica, bass harmonica, harmonium). The duo focuses on the embodied experience of varying acoustical phenomena. Implementing the unique acoustic properties of their instruments and of the performance space, they create otherworldly performances that reveal the interconnected timbral threads among new music and early music from diverse cultural traditions. This, combined with improvisation and movement, brings audiences into an immersive experience that transcends expectations.

Their performance features a brand new piece by Esin for the duo, commissioned through a Classical Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America*. Inspired by the writings of revolutionary Islamic thinker İbn ‘Arabî (1165-1240), ‘…through itself…’ is an exploration of his profound philosophical concepts, through sound:
I. Selam: yearning to become one with (wajd)
II. Awe: the life-force inside all existent things (‘even inside a rock’)
III. Perplexity: the state of bewilderment / non-dual awareness (hayrah)
IV. Oneness: the state of union / higher state of consciousness (‘immediate tasting’)
The piece will be followed by improvisations that expand on this sonic world.


Senso di Voce’s previous work includes multiple performances for Silo City, a collection of repurposed grain elevators in Buffalo, NY. In 2022, they curated a performance and talk in dialogue with a Renaissance print exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester). They were commissioned to design and implement a six-channel surround installation for Play/Ground art festival (Buffalo) in 2021, which they later redesigned for Frontispace Gallery (Rochester) in 2022. Tierceron, an album of improvisations with collaborator Henry Birdsey, was released on Other Minds Records (San Francisco) in 2023.


Buffalo-based oboist Megan Kyle performs as a soloist, improviser, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. She is fascinated by unexpected acoustic phenomena on the oboe, experimenting with defamiliarizing the instrument through microtonality, multiphonics, timbral variation, and noise. In addition to Senso di Voce, Megan performs and creates with new music ensemble Wooden Cities, musical research group Null Point, and oboe/piano/violin/cello quartet The Evolution of the Arm. She is a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and performs as a substitute with professional orchestras across the country, including the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Megan teaches oboe and English horn at SUNY Geneseo and SUNY at Buffalo.

Originally from Istanbul, Turkiye, for composer, vocal performer, and improviser Esin Gunduz, sound originates in the body. She explores life’s energies as vibrations, timbre as visceral sensory experience, creating breathtaking acoustic vistas that have an unveiling quality. Her works span mediums: acoustic, electroacoustic, sound installation, and exist within diverse contexts: live / chamber music, and sound: for theatre, with field recordings, with moving image, around exhibitions, and shine a light on the multiplicity and unity, the psychological and spiritual overtones of our lives and life itself.- esingunduz.com


*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

photo credit Alana Adetola Arts Photography

Event location:

425 E 31st St, Baltimore, MD 21218

The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.