Clockshop and Floating presented Listening by Moonrise featuring artists Lu Coy and Matías Anaya. Lu Coy is a queer mixed media artist and musician of Mexican and Ukrainian Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles, known for their mastery of woodwinds, elegant use of electronics, and agile vocals. Matías Anaya is a Los Angeles-based transfeminine multi-instrumentalist and producer of Peruvian and Uruguayan ancestry. She composes queer Latinx music in a plethora of genres, from cumbia and South American folklore to punk and house. Known for their frequent collaboration, the artists will perform solo with shared moments throughout their performances. Coy and Anaya were joined by DJ collective Chulita Vinyl Club.

This event was free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Lu Coy (they/them) is a queer mixed media artist and musician of Mexican and Ukrainian Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles, California known for their mastery of woodwinds, elegant use of electronics, and agile vocals. Coy performs regularly with several prominent bands in LA’s Queer-Alt-Latin music scene and has been featured in contemporary operas by Anna Luisa Petrisko, Trulee Hall and Four Larks Opera company. Holding degrees in music performance and composition from the Boston Conservatory of Music and California Institute of the Arts, Coy’s musical practice embraces modern technologies and compositional techniques, while remaining deeply rooted in, and mining inspiration from ancient texts, stories, and musical traditions. Notably, Coy is an avid performer of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish musical traditions, performing regularly in Yiddish and Ladino. As a recording artist Coy has been featured on various film scores and projects for artists such as Eyvind Kang, Avey Tare, Blonde Redhead, Jarina De Marco, PJ Sin Suela and recently appeared on season 2 of the STARZ series VIDA.

Matías Anaya (she/her) is a Los Angeles-based transfeminine multi-instrumentalist and producer of Peruvian and Uruguayan ancestry. She composes queer Latinx music in a plethora of genres – from cumbia and South American folklore to punk and house. Matías currently performs as a member of cumbia-punk group Lxs Cochinxs and sings her own acoustic compositions as Matías Anaya. She plays at musical venues, art spaces and street protests alike, bringing her message of joy and liberation to all those seeking to dance and sing through the ongoing revolution. Her work has been featured by publications such as Remezcla, SheShreds, and Spin.

Chulita Vinyl Club (CVC) is made up of women, gender-non-conforming, non-binary, LGBTQIA+ and self-identifying people of color. CVC launched in 2014, with the context of providing a safe space for empowerment, togetherness and to utilize music and vinyl as a form of resistance against the erasure of culture. Each Chulita identifies with their own identity. They are not to be classified as one nationality or culture. The unifying denominator is that they come together over the belief that EL DISCO ES CULTURA and they believe that it is worth preserving and perpetuating.

ACCESSIBILITY

Arrival
Los Angeles State Historic Park is located at 1501 N Spring Street, directly adjacent to Chinatown and the Metro A Line. Follow the dirt path around the perimeter of the main lawn of the park to the northeast. Clockshop’s welcome table will be in view once you reach the boardwalk overlooking the wetland area.

Parking
There is paid parking at 1501 N Spring Street, the main parking lot of the park, at $2/hour, up to $8 daily. The park will open the dirt overflow parking lot directly in front of the main parking lot which is free and first come, first served.
There is also free street parking around the park. Please avoid parking near residential homes on the east side of Main Street and give yourself plenty of time to park and walk over!

Restrooms
There are several all-gender public restrooms and portapotties on site.

IN COLLABORATION WITH

Floating is a weekly all-ages outdoors arts series that explores the harmony between soundscape and landscape. As a collective, their programs nourish symbiotic relationships among kindred artists, environmental organizations, and unique land projects with the goal of inspiring deeper interdependence among our local communities, cultures, and environments.