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05.12.26 Reona on dance/metal percussion, Ka Baird on flute and voice and Chuck Bettis on electronic and voice performing at Light and Sound Design in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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05.12.26 Reona on dance/metal percussion, Ka Baird on flute and voice and Chuck Bettis on electronic and voice performing at Light and Sound Design in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Ka Baird - Respires - experimental beats & vocals (RVNG Intl)
Ka Baird is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist living and working in NYC. She is one of the founding members of avant psych project Spires That In The Sunset Rise. Since relocating to NYC, Baird has set off in numerous directions apart from Spires. Her current work explores piano improvisation, extended vocal techniques, physical movement, and her electronic manipulation of the flute.
Tapping the ecstatic energy and cathartic experience of Baird’s live sets, pushing the extremes of psychological and physical release, Respires represents an unquestionable leap for an artist already out on a limb. Largely written and recorded across the length of 2018, the eight pieces align as a series of visceral actions, captured, culled, and intricately shaped by Baird, then expanded with contributions from Zach Rowden (bass), Max Eilbacher and Andrew Fitzpatrick (synths), and Greg Fox (drums). Respires was born from the intertwined etymologies of spirit and breath, the results of Baird’s singular approach to extended vocal technique and radical notions of “body music” which push her performances to uncompromising extremes. Channeling a raw energy from an internal depth, the genetics of Respires construct new bridges of communication, reaching across the perceptual boundaries of spiritual and physical.
01.11.26 Ka Baird, Joanna Mattrey and Qasim Naqvi at the Stereo Mandrax series at Pianos in the Lower Bast Side, NYC.
02.18.25 Ka Baird and Shelley Hirsch at Artifact Performance Series at Sleepwalk in Brooklyn
03.03.25 Joanna Mattrey, Ka Baird and Qasim Naqvi at Abasement at Artists Space in NYC.
07.16.23 Shelley Hirsch and Ka Baird at Union Pool
IVF Documents, 2025, Tamar Ettun
The Dreamsong gallery in Minneapolis is currently showing the full video and other works by Ettun.
I was thrilled by the music for this piece, which was composed by Ka Baird. Here's a link to her/their recordings:
https://www.kabaird.com/recordings
