Eve Essex and Kevin Kenkel perform at Umbra as a double bill including two solo sets plus collaborative tracks. The music is primarily instrumental and vocal pieces with experimental electronics, synthesizers and woodwinds.

Eve Essex is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She performs with woodwinds and voice, accompanied by instrumental ensembles, and by electronic arrangements that use synthesizers, drum machines, live processing, and other sounds. Her work slides easily from structured electronic pop to open-ended melodic explorations and big-band arrangements.

Kevin Kenkel is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer whose most recent album “Break All The Bones in Your Heart” was released by Soap Library in June 2024. His music comprises elegiac compositions for analog synthesizers and sampler, filled with pathos, heady atmospheres of longing and loneliness, unanswered calls, and missed connections. The exploration and exploitation of developing technologies — especially chatbots and other AI-powered systems for communication — are of paramount interest in his work and performance.

6:00 PM - Doors

8:00 PM - Kevin Kenkel

9:00 PM - Eve Essex

10:00 PM - 11:00 PM - Kevin Kenkel (DJ Set)