Le Creuset is an ongoing series of sound rituals, enacted by Ro Kaelyn and Scott Carver.
Le Creuset evolved out of a collaborative improvised music practice that began between the artists after a trip to Berlin in early 2017. The starting point - amidst political tumult and personal transition - was an interrogation of our passion for extreme and immersive music, set against the problematic histories and power structures built into western experimental music, noise, power electronics, and live performance.
Noise music’s fascination with oppression and fascism has often been criticized as fetishistic, and this fetishism extends to the nature of the performance and its emphasis on violence and masculine catharsis. In response, how can we create spaces for vulnerability, openness, and sensibility - and construct the overwhelming sound experiences that were critical for us - while fighting the performer-centered individualistic and aggressive(ly) white-cis-male-hetero normative power structures that seem to be bound with them?