On Bandcamp you can hear Trē improvising with flutes on these records:
On Soundcloud you can find Trē improvising with text loops for “Read-Shifting Web,” a collaborative piece with Iris Seoyoung Kang for JADED.
Stay tuned for the release of a duo record with Adam Kantz, GLO-TREE’s debut EP (with Gloria Mwarage and Herman Pearl), and an album of Sam River’s jazz with the Dylan Zeh quartet.
Photo by Cynthia Kramer at Mr. Small’s Recording Studio.
7 august 2024. excerpts from a solo set of field recordings, SP-404 sampler, flute, and RC-202 loop station performed by trē seguritan abalos at The Big Idea Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA.
Field recordings (all collected by trē except for samples of Motaz Azaiza and Dalal Abu Amneh):
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 on her parents' piano in San Jose, CA - 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 her parents' piano in San Jose, CA - trē recounting a memory with family - same samples as opening
2.23.24. Noise set with text. Improvised at CHANNELED: sound & poetry night at Fungus Books held by Ed and Ceremonial Abyss.
Improvised by Trē with alto flute and loop station (Boss RC-202) at Unmade Place in Pittsburgh, PA on April 19th, 2023.
Photo by Justin Audet
Trē improvising with flutes, field recordings, and loop station in dialogue with live visuals by touring SF-based artist Eric Theise.
Performed and recorded Oct. 14, 2023 at Creative Coffee in Pittsburgh.
Improvised by Trē on alto flute with loop station (Boss RC-202) at Adda’s Coffee and Tea House in September 2023.
Improvised by Trē with flute and loop station (Boss RC-202) at Davis Cherry Blossom Festival in CA. April 2023.
Improvised by Trē with pre-recorded original text, alto flute, and loop station at The Big Idea Bookstore in June 2023.
Trē improvising with flutes, field recordings, & loop station in dialogue with live visuals by touring SF-based artist Eric Theise.
Performed and recorded on Oct. 14, 2023 at Creative Coffee in Pittsburgh, PA.