Bitter Fruits is an electronic song cycle exploring survival techniques that have developed in response to oppression and injustice within our government, society, and communities. There are intentional injustices and passive. Both have cultivated methods of coping so that marginalized people can function in their daily lives. Defined by Tina Campt in her Quiet Soundings: The Grammar of Black Futurity, these everyday tools, or the quotidian, are what black and brown people need to survive. Lunon defines “Bitter Fruits” as the gains reaped by marginalized people in the United States. The performance examines ideas of erasure and displacement and engages with tokenism, code-switching, and other forms of quotidian survival techniques. Lunon explores the feelings that emerge when these tools are put into action using a light-reactive custom synthesizer in the form of a 10-foot braided wig. 

Shara Lunon voice electronics, wig theremin
Lesley Mok percussion, electronics
Chris Williams trumpet, electronics
Kalia Vandever trombone, electronics
Lester St. Louis electronics
13th Law bass, guitar, electronics

Tickets: https://roulette.org/event/shara-lunon-bitter-fruits/