Since 2009, Black Lake (comprised of Susan Jennings and Slink Moss) has collaborated to produce over a dozen multi-media art installations with performances including "Gray Rainbow" (2011), “Snow” (2011), "Bloom" (2011) "Seek" (2010) "Toasting the Trees" (2009). They have installed and performed in art venues such as The RISD Art Museum, Freight+Volume Gallery, David Nolan Gallery, X-Initiative, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and The Wooly (hosted by Invisible-Exports and BOMB Magazine. David Brody writes in a recent review of their first vinyl release “Shake” in BOMB Magazine, "Black Lake enacts a new paradigm...The duo triangulates the rock gig with the presentational detachment of a poetry reading and the DIY trickiness of an art installation...[Black Lake] is all about backing the audience off just far enough to create incantatory elbow room for (their) precisely strummed Mack Truck ragas." BOMBsite featured a simultaneous interview by Lydia Dona. Black Lake sound art is featured on the soundtrack of Pip Chodorov’s documentary film “Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film” which won a public choice award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2011. Their signature sound includes shimmery percussion from hand-made sculpture/instruments by Susan Jennings. Their upcoming release of new music will be accompanied by a multi-media art and music performance at Freight+Volume in NYC on Sunday, May 20th, 6-9 PM. They will be joined by David Humphrey on bass and Jesse Gammage as Technical Director.
Jesse Gammage sampling of Black Lake sculpture/instruments 6:00
Video by George Jenne and Damian Stamer 6:15
Video by Laurie Olinder 6:45
Video by Cheryl Donegan 7:00
Black Lake video by Simon Lund 7:15
Reading by Nick Flynn 7:20
Les Bicyclette Blanche 7:40
Black Lake 8:00