Leila Bordreuil
A French-American artist based in Brooklyn, Leila Bordreuil embraces the cello as a primary medium for crafting an intense music that moves fluidly between noise, contemporary composition, improvisation, and drone, without anchoring itself to defined canons. Mixing melancholic cello melodies with harsh noise walls Bordreuil challenges conventional approaches to her instrument and uses extreme amplification to summon torrents of noise, tense stillness and a melancholic aura that courses through her sonic flow to the extent she sometimes seems to be playing the P.A rather than her cello. Her panoramic vision of form and genre is reflected in her diverse collaborations with artists including Laurel Halo, Drew McDowall, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore and Tamio Shiraishi.
Photo: Randy Ryandi
