Kiernan Laveaux (US)
Pittsburgh / U.S.A
Kiernan Laveaux is a connective rhythmic energy conduit & ecstatic beat conductor from the Great Lakes, USA. A “one of a kind”, boundless ball of discordant energy, she’s an adventurous spirit - conducting the vibrant forces of our world that are transmitted through the unbridled passion contained within her DJing.
She’s best known for her arcane technical skill, propulsive dancefloor catharsis, & hyper-creative approach behind the decks. Her style is all-embracing & expansive, but unified by a restless sense of ecstatic momentum, dissonant euphoria, & kinetic exuberance - all woven together by entrancing pulsations of uninhibited groove & alchemical sensation. “CDJs become like instruments in her sets; her liberal use of FX, pitch-bending, & jog-wheel trickery invokes the dubwise production techniques of Lee Scratch Perry, Dennis Bovell, and Adrian Sherwood, as well as DJ heroes Larry Levan and Ron Hardy. Technicolor wormholes of distortion and delay stretch out from percussive passages as she mixes, in a way that feels freaky, playful, and purposeful - honoring the past, while gazing wide-eyed into the future.”
Originating from within Cleveland's multiversal DIY underground, she materialized through the rhythms of life & her loved ones - soaking up influence in everything from the enchanted & irreverent joys of disco, the raucous mayhem of hardcore punk & noise gigs, the spatial manifestations of dub, nonlinear revelations & outer reaches of free jazz expressionism, bewitching industrial conjurations, lineages & contrasts of freeform DJing across the world, & dancing with many weirdos in rooms full of fog, neon mesh, & skate ramps.
Over the past decade of a life in music, her spirit of connective resonance, passionate autonomy, and transportative psychedelia has grown to encompass the creators of possible worlds everywhere - releasing a vast array of mixes and live recordings available for your listening pleasure, as well as playing iconic & transformative sets at worldwide rave destinations including Freerotation, Draaimolen, WHOLE United Queer Festival, Horst Arts & Music Festival, an anarchist bookstore in Ohio, Honcho Campout, Return to the Source, a train car in Wisconsin, a woodworking studio in Oregon, ZAP Outdoorz, a gas station turned into a restaurant in Texas, Club Toilet, Sustain-Release, a USPS shipping container in Virginia, a dub soundsystem club in Poland, and a soon to be debut in the Australian bush at un:send..