with Kiernan Laveaux, Gladstone Deluxe, and Yessi

Replenish your soul with beats and rhythms by trusted musicians and vibe-makers Kiernan Laveaux, Gladstone Deluxe (New York), and Yessi (Los Angeles). Join us in the Sculpture Court, under the big sky, in the most magic of hours, and let the music take it from there.

Closing to a pinnacle of summer, a horizon emerges not as an end but as a beginning.

Food Truck: El Rincón Oaxaqueño

About the Artists

Kiernan Laveaux

Kiernan Laveaux is a connective rhythmic energy conduit and ecstatic beat conductor from the Great Lakes. A boundless ball of discordant energy, she’s an adventurous spirit—conducting the vibrant forces of our world that are transmitted through the unbridled passion contained within her DJing.

As a “one-of-a-kind American DJ,” she’s best known for her arcane technical skill, propulsive dance floor catharsis, and hyper-creative approach behind the decks.

Originating from within Cleveland’s multiversal electronic underground, she materialized through the rhythms of life and her loved one—inspired by forces of universal chaos, the experimentalism and joy found within midwestern electronic music, and the infamous In Training, Heaven is in You, Disco Paradiso parties manifested by herself and loved ones in Cleveland, she’s since embarked on a lifelong journey of channeling binary dissolving phenomena throughout our known universe via her unbridled musical vitality and the multifaceted Sweet Abyss imprint.

The music she plays is all-embracing and expansive, but unified by a restless sense of ecstatic momentum, dissonant euphoria, and kinetic exuberance—all woven together by entrancing pulsations of uninhibited groove and rhythmatic sensation.

Gladstone Deluxe

Gladstone Deluxe is a New York-based artist working with percussion and electronics. As a percussionist, Gladstone is interested in how conceptions and politics of time are embodied and can bleed into the social topography of a culture through rhythmic performance. As a technologist, he develops systems for the augmentation and amplification of percussive messages. His experimental approach toward composition and interface design is a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic.

Gladstone has released music with Fixed Rhythms, Subsonic Ebonics, Black Techno Matters, and is/was. Films that Gladstone scored have been shown at the British Film Institute, a STARZ television premiere, the Hawai’i International Film Festival, and more. Gladstone has recently appeared in galleries such as The Warhol Museum, Rubin Foundation, Fridman Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, and clubs all over the country. Over the past few years, Gladstone collaborated with Moog Synthesizers, Sō Percussion, Attacca Quartet, Marcos Balter, Maria Chávez, Ikue Mori, and more. Gladstone also keeps busy as the timbales player for Las Mariquitas, which was recently featured in Rolling Stone. Gladstone holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Columbia University, and is a Ph.D candidate at Princeton University.

Yessi

Yessi is the producer/DJ alias of Jessica Medrano Fuquay, a sound artist, film composer, audio engineer, and improvisatory musician based in Los Angeles. Her DJ sets concoct delicious multi-genre chaos with ever-expanding ingredients, weaving together sonic references from her familial ties in Colombia and her experiences organizing in queer nightlife scenes across the US dance music underground.

About Inside Out

Meet us in the Sculpture Court, where art is all around you, for our free outdoor summer performance and music series. Inside Out is your summer vibe; express yourself with others and experience a cooling breeze of fresh sounds, movement, and connection with artists across our region’s neighborhoods and beyond. Let Inside Out be your happy hour, your brunch, or your dinner: Each program features a delicious food truck and treats and drinks from Café Carnegie.