Trapped: Uncanny Short Films

Tropical Rock is the collaboration of Ka Baird & Camilla Padgitt-Coles, incorporating analog synthesizers, flute, electronics, voice, crystal singing bowls and projections. Together they co-run Perfect Wave, a curatorial platform that ""maintains a committed vision to experimental performance, sound and art with a special interest in creating intergenerational dialogue."" Perfect Wave produces a magazine, releases music and organizes events in NYC.Camilla Padgitt-Coles is a multimedia artist and musician currently working in light, sound, video and audio-visual environments. She has performed music and live visuals across the US and in Europe at music venues, yoga studios, galleries, dance parties, and museums. She utilizes analog and digital synths as well as prepared footage and a variety of D.I.Y. projection methods, more recently incorporating newer technologies in order to fuse light and sound. She plays and records solo as Ivy Meadows and in ambient improv collaborations Future Shuttle, Energy Star and Tropical Rock.Ka Baird is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist living and working in NYC. She is one of the founding and continuing members of the long running avant psych project Spires That In The Sunset Rise. Since relocating to NYC in November 2014, Baird has set off in numerous directions apart from Spires with new collaborations as well as honing in on her own solo work. Her current work explores piano improvisation, electroacoustic interventions, extended vocal techniques, physical movement, and her unusual electronic manipulation of the flute. She has toured extensively both nationally and internationally with performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), MoMA PS1, Roulette Intermedium, Cafe OTO (London) and numerous festival appearances with Spires including TUSK (Newcastle, UK), Incubate (Tilburg, Netherlands), and Festival Of Endless Gratitude (Copenhagen, DK).