Doors 7:30/Show 8pm
Join us for our second (!) installment of Trustfall Series. This one features Gelsey Bell (voice + daxophone), Cindy Lan(viola, voice + electronics) & Sylvain Souklaye (microphones and body). The show will close with a short improv by Gelsey, Cindy, Sylvain, and Sugar!
Trustfall is a new performance series that features artists and composer-performers experimenting in sound and music. Artists may share work at any stage of development. This series aims to build a nurturing creative community by creating a space of trust and generosity between artists and foster a more intimate connection between art and audiences. Following each performance is a short, casual gathering.
About the artists
Courtesy of Roulette. Photo by Wolf Daniel
Gelsey Bell (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary performance creator, composer, and vocalist. Her recent works include the experimental opera mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] (2023), commissioned by the HERE Arts Center and presented in the Prototype Festival; Cairns (2020), a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery; the musical one-act “Archaeopteris” (2025), commissioned by Wet Ink; and thingNY’s collaboratively written opera Mouthful (2024). She has released multiple albums, including the recent mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning], Skylighght, and Heads Together. She has received awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Opera America, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Japan Foundation, NYSCA, and others. Performance highlights include Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway) and Ghost Quartet, Robert Ashley’s Foreign Experiences and Improvement, Darius Jones’s Samesoul Maker, Alaina Ferris’s The Lydian Gale Parr, Aaron Siegel’s Rainbird, and other works by Jay Afrisando, Kate Soper, Tomomi Adachi, Dan Trueman, and others. www.gelseybell.com
Cindy Lan is a violist, composer, and collaborative artist from Queens, NY. Since 2019, she has explored her inner emotional world through the interplay of voice, strings, and electronics in her project ‘Breath & Bow Meditations’. She is a 2025 recipient of the Queens Art Fund New Work grant for the development of a forthcoming interdisciplinary work, “Sadness isn’t any louder than joy”. Her string quartet, Ondine Quartet, is a 2024 Chamber Music America Ensemble Forward grantee. She performs with Isogram and is a contributing performer for “Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia” by Sugar Vendil, and performed at National Sawdust, Lincoln Center, and Movement Research at Judson with Isogram. She performed as a soloist with Orchestra Northern Arizona in 2021 and 2023. She is the Executive Director of the Greenwich Village Orchestra, and holds an MM in Viola Performance from the Eastman School of Music.
CIRCA PRIZE
Sylvain Souklaye is a French Caribbean Brooklyn-based live artist, sonic maker, and author whose work explores the interiority of broken bodies, environmental urgencies, and political retribution through the concept of the rhizome. Drawing from his Lyon hometown's Canut revolts heritage and his Martinique Neg marron origins, Souklaye began with DIY social justice activism before developing his signature action poetry and protean political happenings.
His craft evolved through a durational radio show at French independent station RCT, leading to uniquely lyrical, sonic, and politically charged live experiences that blur audience boundaries. Notable works include Depopulated at Judson Church, BE HAPPY OR DIE at Fridman Gallery, solitary venice at Barbican Center, and Liquid Soul at Helsinki Central Library Oodi.
Recognized among the top 100 Contemporary Artists by Aesthetica Art Prize, Souklaye is a commissioned artist for International Contemporary Ensemble, lecturer at IRCAM Paris, and current resident at Harvestworks. His essay "Living Liveness" appears in Art As Social Practice: Technologies for Change (Routledge, 2022).