Kyra Sims and Ryn Hardiman (US) w/ Lucky Pollock (Album Release)

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.

They will be supported by local classical composer, Lucky Pollock, on flute, keys and vocal.

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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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Lucky Pollock (beet-wix) will join the lineup for their album release! Lucky composes contemporary classical music and has recently started an electronic label called scrap metal cereal. For this set, they will perform on flute, keys and vocals.