we are new and we are the same.

we make monomes, chop wood, grow apples, chase chickens, watch clouds.

Robert Lopez, Drum Set and Percussion
Shanna Sordahl, Cello and Electronics

SO AR (formerly known as ZE BIB!) is a collaborative effort between cellist/electronic musician Shanna Sordahl and percussionist Robert Lopez. Their music grapples with the spastic intensity arising from their explorations into sound worlds developed both collectively and independently. Both are graduates of Mills College's music MFA program, and their extreme musical interests converge with explosive force. Their music is tinged with influences ranging between noise, free improvisation, avant garde rock, and heavy drone. They cultivate psychological structures and interpretations of material grown out of improvisations, all with an emphasis on the deconstruction of composed melodic and rhythmic material.

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