New Haven’s Austin Larkin returns to the series to transmogrify his violin into a tool to amplify the poetics of space. Following a stunning performance at Other Minds Festival 26 in 2022, Theresa Wong makes her debut appearance at Latitudes to deconstruct the cello and voice to their most essential elements.
Austin Larkin is a composer and violinist focusing on elements of tone within the interstices of fields, asymmetries, and patterns. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. He lives in New Haven, CT.
Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, vocalist, and intermedia artist active at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in music composition, her works include Fluency of Trees for solo cello and voice which premiered at the Other Minds Festival in 2022, She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill for The Future Is Female project, and Harbors, co-composed with Long String Instrument inventor Ellen Fullman and chosen as one of The Wire’s top 50 releases of 2020. Her multimedia piece The Unlearning, 21 songs inspired by Goya’s Disasters of War etchings, premiered in 2013 at Roulette in Brooklyn and was also featured in the 2016 New Frequencies Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Recent commissions include works for San Francisco Girls Chorus, Peninsula Women’s Chorus, NakedEye Ensemble, Long Beach Opera, Del Sol Quartet, and Splinter Reeds. She has shared her work internationally at venues including Fondation Cartier in Paris, Cafe Oto and Barbican Centre in London, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Museo d’Arte Orientale in Torino, Sydney Festival, and The Stone in New York City. Wong is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.