~ Music Performance
Canyon Counterpoint is on a brief live performance hiatus whilst the artist completes her graduate school toiling — erm — I mean education! 😇😘
Past shows include:
- Sofar Sounds, October 2021, Austin, TX
- SXSW Official Artist, March 2018, Force Field PR Showcase
- The Echo, October 2018, Los Angeles w/ Mirah and Lonesome Leash
- 1m1w1d, April 2018, Los Angeles w/ Bouquet
- CMJ Official Artist, June 2018, Brooklyn, NY
- 2017 Midwest U.S. Tour included dates at True/False, Chicago, IL, Nashville, TN w/ Erin Rae
- True/False Film Festival, Columbia Missouri 2017 - 2019
- Elsewhere, December 2017, Brooklyn, NY w/ Anni Rossi
- Cheer Up Charlie’s, 2016-2019, Austin, TX c/o The Nothing Song
- Gold Diggers, May 2019, Los Angeles w/ Alex Dupree
- Wonderful house shows and backyard shows and funky gallery spaces and makeshift stages at restaurants, Austin, TX and Los Angeles, 2016-2021
~ Actor/Voiceover
Performance Training includes:
University of Washington (Seattle) undergrad degree in drama and journalism. Minor in music.
Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre (Technique I, II, III, Script Breakdown)
Gregory Berger / Berg Studios (Technique I)
Background work includes:
Togetherish (2020/forthcoming) Directed by Nikole Beckwith
Mistress America (2015) Directed by Noah Baumbach
Into Light (Short) (2020/forthcoming) Directed by Jessica Graham.
Featured work includes:
Ry Rocklen’s Food Group: The Body Palms. Starring in the role of “Cupcake” for a run of 4 shows as part of Los Angeles’s public art triennial Current: LA.
Voiceover for Tzu Chi Connect. Listen here:
~ Singer; Original Score/Demo’ing
Singer/gun for hire.
I’ve sung on ads for Google, Blue Moon and contributed to the soundtrack for a video game called Kentucky Route Zero.
Singer, Lyrics (co-write) for Bend Goods
Community Chorus (2017 - 2020): We meet bi-weekly at the Women’s Center for Creative Work. We sing at protests and art museums in the Los Angeles area!
Daughters of Wolbachia:
A short film Directed by Ariel McCleese
Produced by Alex Rose & Ariel McCleese
Full credits on IMDB
Instagram
About Daughters of Wolbachia:
The Wolbachia bacterium is transmitted in arthropods through female sex cells. There are four types of dissemination to produce the maximum number of hosts: feminization, asexual reproduction, embryonic death, and male killing. Whole insect populations have been made female through the infection. Bacteria spreads.
Daughters of Wolbachia follows the Infected, the Uninfected, and the Transformed, a family governed by a bacterial matriarch. As the Infected and the Transformed join together to pass on the legacy of their infection, the Uninfected intervenes, threatening to reestablish patriarchal order. Wolbachia, and her daughters, must fight to secure their domination over man once and for all.
The film was shot by an all-female crew on location in a research facility nestled in the surreal rock formations of Yucca Valley, California. Bringing together women in film, fine art, dance, and poetry, this project is the result of deep collaboration and shared commitment to feminist stories.
Daughters of Wolbachia is the directorial debut of Ariel McCleese, who also co-wrote and co-produced the film. With a background in fine art, Ariel makes work about feminism, insects, and horror. Ariel learned about the Wolbachia bacteria while researching sex differentiation in lepidopterous insects at a vision lab using butterflies as research subjects. Ariel lives and works in Los Angeles.
Email me if you’d like a link to watch on Vimeo 🦠🦋🦠
