Monday, May 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
A fearsome trio of the Let's Paint TV (John Kilduff) and Adam Lion Duo, Elder Sister, and deathflavorkiss! ~ This performance is the first meeting between John Kilduff (letspainttv) and Adam Lion (vibraphone) - an unlikely duo. John, an outsider legend who began on public access television 25 years ago, embraces the absurd through performances including music, food, ping-pong, painting, and treadmills. Adam, a classically trained improviser of experimental music, has developed an idiosyncratic practice deeply focusing on vibraphone. In this performance these backgrounds blend (or clash!) through spontaneous musical improvisation. This celebration of creativity builds a bridge between two vastly different backgrounds that are both peculiar, unique, and determined. Nobody knows what will happen, including them. adam-lion.com + https://letspainttv.com/ ~ Elder Sister is the materialisation of incantations voiced from the marrow of broken bones, human DNA, ancestral imprints, whispers from other dimensions, and future triumphs, channeled through unpredictable songs of delayed guitars, vocal loops, and collected transmissions of everyday sounds. Elder Sister is Jane Paik who persists as an artist, musician and healer for creatives, mystics and misfits. A wanderer by nature and forever situated in duality, she now resides between her hometown of Los Angeles and longtime home in the City of Magic - Torino, Italy. A dig into the past will unearth the Janet Pants Dans Theeatre, a pioneering experimental dance troupe that booked and toured like a band in the independent music scenes of the 90s/2000s. An easy stroll across the way will reveal the flip side of Elder Sister as the vocalist in the art-damaged, no wave, folk band Muscle Beach. https://deareldersister.wixsite.com/eldersister ~ Deathflavorkiss is Melissa Achten and Eli Klausner, two composers, improvisers, and multi-instrumentalists. Their decade-long collaboration combines esoteric objects and hand-built instruments with their experimental harp and piano practice. They’ve performed and premiered compositions in New York, Montréal, London, and Cyprus. Deathflavorkiss develops work out of their home studio Oracle Egg, which is also an experimental arts incubator that they run together. https://www.melissaachten.com/collaborative/deathflavorkiss