trē | sound artist, improviser, flutist
trē seguritan abalos is a Filipina-American sound artist based in ancestral land of the Seneca, Adena, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Shawnee, and many other indigenous peoples.
trē creates soundscapes with improvisation, breath, field recordings, silence.
photo by Justin Audet
5.2023
Improvisations by trē seguritan abalos (flutes), Hellcat Sneer (drum synthesizer), and Carl Fuermann (midi guitar) recorded in Pittsburgh, PA.
From roots in Western classical music trē has become a performer of improvised music, playing with alto flute and field recordings — drawn to the distortion of memory, familiarity, and belonging within the placelessness of a soundscape.
8.2024 Live sound collage with field recordings by trē seguritan abalos at The Big Idea Bookstore
0:00 bells heard in a forest in Hakone, Japan / temple chimes at Sensō-ji, Tokyo / water in Pangasinan, Philippines near a woman singing under her breath / trē reading from an unsent letter: "did you know... that to escape our skin, I become a sound?" / trē's little cousin talking to herself in Tagalog in a cemetery / the cousin's mom calling her / train from Narita airport to Tokyo / 3:00 stuck in Manila traffic, listening to Tagalog hip hop / trē saying, "... life, here? ... welcoming" / 6:00 sample of Gazan journalist Motaz Azaiza singing / voices of food vendors on a bus to Baguio, Philippines / voices at izakaya in Odawara, Japan / train from Narita to Tokyo / trē improvising with piano / trē's little cousin speaking, birds singing around her / 10:10 flute loop / voices of protesters in Pittsburgh / 11:20 sample of Dalal Abu Amneh singing a Palestinian song about the olive harvest / television & voices at an izakaya in Odawara, Japan / 13:45 trē improvising on piano in San Jose, CA / trē recounting a memory / same samples as opening.
9.2024 Live sound collage with field recordings and alto flute by trē seguritan abalos at Seafoam
Field recordings, in order of appearance: train in Berlin / train to Tokyo / traditional Philippine interlocking rhythms in a procession led by Susie Ibarra in Jasmund Forest, Germany / a beech tree in Jasmund Forest / vocal samples for Asian-American reading room held by JADED / sample of mass protest in Yemen in 2023 / clock tower bells in Berlin / common chiffchaff birdsong on Rügen Island. All samples recorded by trē except for the protest in Yemen. Videos from Jade Montesano and Iris Seoyoung Kang.