American French hornist Kyra Sims combines electronically processed field recordings from Antarctica with free improvisation, vocals, and storytelling, in collaboration with A/V designer Ryn Hardiman. Support from local multi-instrumentalist duo March of the Kororā.
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Kyra Sims is a musician, writer, and theatremaker residing in NYC. She has worked with artists such as Rosalía, Jon Batiste, Earth, Wind & Fire, Carole King, and Lizzo, and performed in the Broadway musical Illinoise. Kyra now works independently as a performance artist, combining French horn with vocals, electronics, and spoken word, blending slice-of-life themes with hopeful Afrofuturism.
In January 2026 she traveled to Antarctica as a Polar STEAM fellow on a research vessel, and the work she created on this voyage, Otto in Antarctica, will be performed here at the Pyramid Club!
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Ryn Hardiman is a Chicago based experimental A/V designer and performer with over 2 decades of experience working in live theatre and devised performance. As a technical designer, Ryn has collaborated with hundreds of artists and dozens of institutions including The Neo-Futurists, Manual Cinema, Blue Man Group, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Their artistic practice explores electronic signal manipulation as a performative medium – utilizing a combination of analog and digital equipment to shape, bend, slice, and distort, audio and video signals to create electronically collaged environments.
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March of the Kororā are a pair of multi-instrumentalists trying to make sense of ecological collapse, injustice and resistance. Their first album, 'lonely blue penguin on a little blue planet', is born out of jazz jams, space explorations and rage.
