• albums
  • Always Becoming
  • DR DIEGO
  • Symbolic Gesture
  • Payton MacDonald's Sonic Divide
  • PETITE ecstasy
  • Miolina
  • David Morneau's Love Songs Remixed

• 2022 performances
  • 21 April Diego Vásquez

• 2020 performances
  • 23 Feb Hans Tammen: the complete Cornelius Cardew

• 2019 performances
  • 22 May Itinerant @ Smack Mellon
  • 13 Nov mem mer mère @ Havre de Grace Cultura
  • 08 March l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop

• 2018 performances
  • Fall performances
  • 30 Oct l'Ao @ KGBar
  • 19 Oct: l'Ao @ Hans Tammen's Hair
  • 29 June l'Ao w Nicole Antebi @ Brooklyn Art Lib
  • 22 June l'Ao @ Strange Stage
  • 10 June l'Ao @ Spectrum~Tom Piercy
  • 20 May l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop
  • 06 May l'Ao @ DROM
  • 27 April l'Ao w Gahlord Dewald
  • 20 April Tuned Squared
  • 28 March l'Ao @ Marshall University
  • 24 March l'Ao w Marc Fiaux
  • 09 March l'Ao w Jessica Bowers
  • 27 Jan l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop
  • 02 - 08 Jan l'Ao @ Toy Piano Fest

• 2017 performances
  • 18 Nov l'Ao @ Pete's Candy Store
  • 05 Nov world premiere @ lpr
  • 14 Oct l'Ao @ Emmet O'Neal Library
  • 12 Oct Miolina @ BNMF
  • 15 Sep EIO @ Soft Series No9
  • 22 Sep l'Ao with Thomas Piercy
  • 09 Sep l'Ao @ NCEMF
  • 18 Aug Sonic Divide
  • 01 Jun Sonic Divide
  • 26 May l'Ao @ Strange Stage no.3
  • 25 Apr Lynn Bechtold: Argentina
  • 22 Apr Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 17 Apr l'Ao @ Rutgers
  • 24 Mar Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 08 Mar Miolina NOC
  • 05 Mar Sonic Divide/CompCord
  • 29 Jan Miolina @ Rockwood
  • 27 Jan l'Ao Nicole Antebi
  • 26 Jan ETHEL
  • 08 Jan Nicole Antebi
  • 08 Jan Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 06 Jan l'Ao @ Toy Piano Festival

• Melissa Grey & David Morneau
  • Quiet Friends ~ Jessica Bowers
  • Trappist-1 ~ Thomas Piercy
  • Ao Vivo No Casarão | Lado B |
  • Good Morning ~ Yanbin Song
  • Biophonic Beats
  • Melissa Grey's Tuned Squared
  • Kepler-19 ~ Jessica Bowers
  • Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
  • Soft Series

• sounds
  • to...return for trombone & string orchestra
  • blur (after blue hour)
  • Environnement sonore
  • hyperlocal for Thomas Piercy
  • Photon Ecstasy M44, NGC 2632
  • Appassionata for Angela Grauerholz
  • SPRAWL: colony
  • Honeybee Cape Breton
  • Grey Theta for Winter Shack
  • Watertable
  • City
  • New York Interior
  • Psychodrama
  • Colony

• collaborations
  • Angela Grauerholz || Environnment Sonore
  • Angela Grauerholz || Appassionata
  • Nicole Antebi || Vince Clarke
  • Nicole Antebi || Procrustean Bed
  • Nicole Antebi || ...Bees Telling
  • Nicole Antebi || Eva Ingolf
  • David Morneau || Love Songs
  • Kirkbride || Overtone
  • Kirkbride || Beirne || Leal
  • 60x60 || New York Minutes Mix

• satorarepoTENEToperarotas
  • Vince Clarke || Nicole Antebi
  • Craig Hultgren, ecello
  • Claudia Dumschat, organ

• artistic director || concert series
  • l'Artiste ordinaire || Soft Series

• publications
  • l'Ao - Circumference Magazine
  • The Horror Show
  • Alphabet City: Water

• bio | contact
  • contact
  • bio

• . . .

22 September 8:00pm
Barge Music

Brooklyn Bridge Blvd
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Photon Ecstasy (Trappist-1)

composer-performers
l’Ao with Thomas Piercy

instrumentation
baoding balls
bass clarinet
trombone
live processing
interactive light

Photon Ecstasy is a growing catalog of compositions that engages music, sound, and interactive light. It is an expansion of the mythology created by Dan Rose in his artist book, The DNA-Photon Project. Photon Ecstasy allows l’Ao to collaborate and connect with musicians, artists, engineers, and designers.

l'Ao with Tom Piercy (bass clarinet) at Bargemusic.