I’m joining The Walden School’s Summer of Creativity!
For my project, I’ll be knitting Halloween-themed sock(s). It’s my first time doing colorwork (spoooooooky). Please check out my blog posts and donate to Walden here:
https://walden-summer-of-creativity.raiselysite.com/kittie-cooper
I’m playing with And Big Band—the biggest band ever! We’ll be playing a wonderful, strange, almost certainly noisy and boisterous piece by David Menestres.
Also on the bill, the biggest band of flutes you’ll ever hear and big big noise!
Doors at 7:30, Music at 8
$10-20 NOTAFLOF—come on out!
Ear Infection is back!!!
Experience a wall of sound like none other at Visible Records on July 31—Radon Abatement’s cassette release show!
We might cook out!
$10 suggested NOTAFLOF; why not buy a tape while you’re at it?
If you’re in high school, sign up for noise music summer camp through the Music Resource Center!
We’ll be making contact mics, learning how to solder, experimenting with robotics and music, making fun motor contraptions to make sound, making cassette tape loops, and lots of other electronic/noise music-oriented things!
12-2:30 every day from July 20-24
Happening in the one and only C4K clubhouse makerspace area
We’re back! With a mostly new, little bit of old, little bit of the classics Trash Cats set.
Psyched to be playing with the one and only Jordan Perry and Luke Schneider!
July 11, 2026, doors at 7, music at 8
$10 suggested NOTAFLOF
I’m hopping on a show with the fantastical and mysterious Soliton, along with Neda Nadim!
July 10, 2026, doors at 7, music at 8
$10-15 NOTAFLOR
Excited to join Day for Night for a Tuesday show at Material Room!
A big night of improv and good vibes—come on out!
Music at 8!
$10 NOTAFLOF
Excited to hop on 2 shows for Elka Bong’s spring 2026 tour.
April 18 - Material Room (Richmond) (Mia Zabelka, CillaVee, and a whole bunch of other incredible local improvisers!)
Both shows will be improv extravaganzas!
Excited to hop on 2 shows for Elka Bong’s spring 2026 tour.
April 17 - Infinite Repeats (Charlottesville) (Mia Zabelka, CillaVee, Grand Banks)
Both shows will be improv extravaganzas!
Psyched to share a bill with Varun Kishore, Alex Christie and Neda Nadim, and PLARK!
I’ll be playing feedback! Via sewing machine. With a little light.
Save the date!
Trash Cats are doing a residency at Glendale Community College. We are so excited about it!
CANCELLED : (
I’m co-teaching a youth workshop for the Odds and Ends Film Festival with Alex Christie in the UVA Wilson Maker Studio. More details coming soon.
I’m writing the music for a delightful site-specific performance called Let There Be Lichen for this year’s Let There Be Light festival at Piedmont Virginia Community College.
Bundle up, grab a flashlight, and come on out!
More info here: https://www.pvcc.edu/fine-arts-and-performance/show/let-there-be-light-2025
Super excited to be sharing a bill with Erica Dawn Lyle (touring guitarist for Bikini Kill) and Atta Girl!
Need to spend some time with friends after a weekend of family? Trash Cats will be your friends! Have visitors in town that need an activity? Bring em on by!
We’re so excited to be invited guest artists for Third Practice at the University of Richmond! We’ll be performing our newest piece, Fur Baby for homemade analog synthesizer and light.
Festival Website: https://thirdpractice.org/3p25/index.html
More info about Third Practice:
Third Practice is an annual festival of new electroacoustic music and experimental media presented by the Department of Music at the University of Richmond. The festival will present works for instruments and computer, gamelan and live electronics, and stereo and multi-channel works for fixed media. The festival will feature New York's BlackBox Ensemble, cellist Schuyler Slack, and violinist, Andie Tanning.
Third Practice 2026 explores the electroacoustic art form and its relationship to past and present musical practices. This year, the festival will present pieces that combine audio and video, that navigate the boundary between experimental and popular musical practices, that engage with instruments and performance practices from around the world, and that feature new instruments and explore cutting edge sonic practices. All works are presented on an immersive multi-channel surround audio system.
Trash Cats is performing at Technosonics! We’ll be performing our newest work, Fur Baby.
More info about Technosonics:
The University of Virginia Department of Music’s program in Composition & Computer Technologies (CCT) is pleased to present TechnoSonics, its annual festival of electronic and acoustic music, installation, and intermedia arts, November 10 — 14. This year’s festival will feature work by special guests Lauren Sarah Hayes, Benjamin Broening, and Travis Thatcher, as well as CCT faculty, staff, and graduate students.
We’re playing at Book Club!
All new set!
September 27 / Doors at 8:30 / Music at 9
Photo by Odd John Photography
Save the date!
Ear Infection / Tongue Depressor / Soliton
Live at Visible Records
March 21
8pm Music
$10-15 suggested donation; NOTAFLOF
Trash Cats and Bobby Metronome
Live at Infinite Repeats!
Doors at 7, Music at 8
Big Bend and Kittie Cooper
Live at the Music Resource Center!
Doors at 7, Music at 7:15
$10 suggested donation for the MRC (NOTAFLOF)
Live creation of tape loops feeding the Tape Worns sound installation, with Xolile ‘X’ Madinda, Alex Christie, Kittie Cooper and Noel Lobley.
Part of the exhibition Ubuhlanti: Solution-Oriented Being, a Pop-Up Platform curated by Xolile ‘X’ Madinda (Xhosaland/ South Africa) at The Fralin Museum of Art
Ubuhlanti is a Xhosa gathering space. It is part of a ceremonial and philosophical system designed to bring families and communities together to share, communicate and resolve the issues and problems of the day and the ages.
Including video projection, images, sound art and other newly commissioned art works, this pop-up exhibition is offered as part of the continuing relationship between The Black Power Station in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and the University of Virginia. It is designed to create a space of solution-orientated dialogue in which new audiences can listen to landscapes, histories and communities.
All events are supported by the Office of the Vice Provost of the Arts.
Opening info and full outline of the weekend’s events
I’m playing a solo set on the bill with Paige and Haruhi for the fourth stop on their tour around the South and Midwest!
Visible Records, Charlottesville, 8pm
Flyer by Madeline Stocking
Trash Cats (Alex Christie and Kittie Cooper) is going on tour with Heather Mease!
Friday, August 16 @ Visible Records in Charlottesville with Resuscianne
Sunday, August 18 @ Red Room in Baltimore with Rachel Beetz
Monday, August 19 @ Rhizome in Washington, D.C. with The Modern Yonnie Remix (Becky Brown)
About Trash Cats:
Charlottesville-based noise duo Trash Cats frequently perform amalgamations of some (or all) of the following things: saxophone, guitar, cassette tapes, DIY circuits, pedals, drum machines, lightbulbs, masks, contact mics, batteries, wires, knobs, strings. Electronic and electric. Trash and cats. Alex Christie and Kittie Cooper. Lock up your cats, Trash Cats is coming to town!
Trash Cats’ first album is here!!!
Listen and buy the album on bandcamp
Trash Cats' debut album featuring live and studio recordings. Guitars, saxophones, homemade synthesizers, drum machines, circuit bent toys, and various electronic instruments collide in improvised and semi-improvised experiments.
Released through Hiccup Records
Friday, July 12, 2024
7:30 PM 8:30 PM
Friction Quartet premieres new works by Walden School Young Musicians Program faculty.
This includes my new work for 2 violins, viola, and fixed media the sound of water was with them wherever they went.
More info here.
Performance of my work the lightest things float to the top adapted for fixed media and accompanied by live improvisation by Bent Frequency (full program below!)
Tickets: $10/$5 students at the door
Join us for the SEAMUS Atlanta Conference (The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States)
https://www.eyedrum.org/calendar-events-performances-art-music/seamus-atlanta-adam-mirza-and-bent-frequency-present-forest-in-a-city#:~:text=Forest%20in%20a%20City%20is,new%20music%20ensemble%20Bent%20Frequency.
Forest in a City is a sound installation and immersive performance using wooden speaker-objects and featuring live performances by members of Atlanta new music ensemble Bent Frequency. The event imagines a new urban soundscape, a heterogenous combination of works and audio artifacts by SEAMUS composers that reflect on the nature of ongoing development within cities like Atlanta (“the city in a forest”). The installation will appear as an indoor “forest” of 8 wooden panels used as speaker-objects spread around the performance space. These panels were made by local Atlanta luthier, DJ Betsill, using wood from an 800-year-old “Sinker Cyprus” log found preserved in a swamp on the Georgia coast. Similar to John Cage’s Musicircus, multiple pieces (acoustic and electronic), will be played simultaneously in the gallery space. We are inspired by Giorgio Magnanensi’s current practice using wooden panels with transducers (https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/soundgarden-2022), as well as David Tudor’s Rainforest IV and Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet.
The event will take place at Eyedrum, one of Atlanta’s oldest experimental arts presenters, currently located in a former industrial/railroad building near downtown Atlanta.
Composers presented: Iddo Aharony, Jeremy Castro Baguyos, Nicholas Cline, Kittie Cooper, Alex Christie, Garrison Gerard, David George Haskell, Holland Hopson, Daniel Karcher, Kerrith Livengood, Giorgio Magnanensi, Scott L. Miller, Adam Mirza, John Moeller, and Daniel Smith
Performers:
Jan Berry Baker, saxophone
Stuart Gerber, percussion
South Bend, IN, Spring 2024
I will be performing my work its being is in it alone at the opening concert.
More info about PMF here.
View the festival trailer here.
Come make tape loops with Trash Cats (Alex Christie and Kittie Cooper) in the UVA Wilson Maker Studio! This event is part of the SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) Distributed National Conference.
I’m participating in a few ways!
Cassette Tape Loop workshop (co-taught with Alex Christie): see separate event
Presentation of Medieval Ghost Tales of Byland Abbey at Cinema SEAMUS
Performing with Trash Cats!
More info at seamusonline.org.
Ear Infection is infecting ears once again! This time to celebrate the release of our album, Monster Energy. We’ll be performing with Tomb Cat, Radon Abatement, and Order as a benefit for music (and new acoustic treatments!) at Visible Records. Come on out! And listen to our album while you’re at it, too.
Ear Infection is Alex Christie, Kittie Cooper, Kevin Davis, Jordan Perry, Steve Snider, and Travis Thatcher.
Trash Cats has a cover of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Shy Boy” on compilation album meat scenes 2023 ~ at world's end.
Listen and buy the album here!
cover art by Nicky Alonso
