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Crystal Myslajek is a multi-instrumentalist, performer, and composer, who blends looping, ethereal vocals, and effects with minimalist, post-classical, jazz, and pop forms. She is an avid collaborator across disciplines including experimental film, performance art, theater, and dance. Recent projects include, Cove, released on Moon Glyph, Sea of Being, a collaboration with Aros E-V and the steward, the rev.web released on Corrector Records, Stasis & Motion, a collaborative sound-film piece commissioned by the Walker Art Center; Circadia, an album released on Water Wing Records; a multimedia piece for the 2016 Red Eye Theater Isolated Acts commission; multimedia compositions commissioned by the Cedar Cultural Center’s 416 Club; collaborations with playwright Rachel Jendrzejewski and SuperGroup performance collaborative; and Reflectors, a collaborative music/film piece which she co-presented at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival and the Eco Park Film Center in 2016, and at the MONO NO AWARE international film exhibition in Brooklyn, NY in 2015. Myslajek sang and played bass guitar in IE and Brute Heart. The trio was awarded City Pages’ 2012 Best Female Vocalist, featured in filmmaker Doug Aitken’s Station to Station project, and commissioned by the Walker Art Center to compose a score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Shows


Upcoming


2021
Dec 17,  Lantern Procession 

Dec 9,  Mirror Lab

Sept 23, Mirror Lab

July 23, Mirror Lab

July 19, Icehouse

May, 19, BEYOND SERIES, House of Balls



2020 and earlier
Sept 21, Peace Day Lantern Procession, 2742 15th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN

Sept 27, house show, Minneapolis, MN

 Sept 7, 7:00p Album release show, The White Page, Minneapolis, MN

 June 9, Composers Evening, Black Forest Inn, Minneapolis, MN

 June 6, Old Moon and Reflectors, The White Page Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

 June 1, IE, Reflectors, Betazoid, Moon Palace Books, Minneapolis, MN

May 18, 7:00p SeaWatch Fundraiser, Hook & Ladder, Minneapolis, MN

June 1, 9:00p Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Forth, 171 McDermot Ave, Winnipeg, Canada

August 23, Trylon Cinema, Minneapolis

 April 20, Expanding the Frame: Stasis & Motion, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

 February 13, Nightingale, Chicago

 January 29, MirrorLab Studios, Minneapolis

 September 22, 7:00p, Reflectors, a multi-projection and experimental sound performance, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Auditorium 140, Free 

 August 19, 7:00p, WZFR Film Screening, Lily Springs Farm Wisconsin

July 13, 7:00p, Movies at Weisman Art Museum, Free 

 June 9 - 12, 7:30p, "Peripheries" by Crystal Myslajek and John Marks in New Works Four Weeks festival, The Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis (tickets and info) 

 May 7, 7:00p, "People I Know", Public Functionary, Minneapolis

April 28, 9:30p, Circadia Tape Release Show!!!, Icehouse, Minneapolis (tickets)

April 16,12:30p, Anonymous Choir Bazaar, PAIKA, St. Paul 

April 16, 3:00p, BEYOND THE FRAME - Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, St. Anthony Main Theater, Minneapolis (tickets)

March 19, 8p - Arboreality Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles

ARBOREALITY is a program of short experimental film, video and expanded cinema from Minnesota based artists, loosely organized around the themes of elegy, impermanence, and trees. 


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