Concert: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and Natalie Epstein-Hogue

About the artists

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is a multifaceted artist, curator, and composer renowned for his innovative work with voice and modular synthesizer in the realm of experimental music. With a focus on performance and installation/exhibition, Lowe’s combination of synthesis creates a heightened physicality, often inducing trancelike states in his compositions. He has also recorded and performed under the moniker Lichens, as well as being a member of the bands Om and Singer. 

In recent years, Robert has focused on composing music for film, and has worked with filmmakers such as Ben Owen, Yance Ford, Nia DaCosta, Daniel McCabe, Mariama Diallo, and more. He has composed soundtracks for the films Candyman (2021), Master (2022), and Telemarketers (2023).

Natalie Epstein-Hogue is an interdisciplinary musician, artist, and technologist. Her work engages with urbanism, domesticity, and humanism within tech. Through electronic media, Natalie seeks to reflect the human experience. She works with expressive control and programming bespoke digital instruments, building up a deeply personal sound-space from first principles.

Her 2024 Album Comfort Objects is a synthesis-driven work, seeking to cultivate a soundscape of comfort and healing, in spite of a tumultuous and traumatizing reality. Dealing with themes of grief, PTSD and marginalization, and squaring them with a desire to create beautiful things, to love deeply, and to cultivate peace as a radical act.