Kirin McElwain

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Kirin McElwain is a cellist, performer, and composer working in the realms of improvised, experimental, contemporary classical, and popular music. Equally at home in concert halls, recording studios, and in DIY venues, Kirin has contributed cello to numerous film and television scores, contemporary dance performances, mixed media installations, and traditional classical and contemporary classical performances for clients like HBO, Gimlet Media, PBS, and YouTube. As a composer, she is known for using cello, modular synthesizer, and voice to explore the tension between form and chaos, western classical harmony and noise, and ideas of "goodness" and "correctness."