"For Mr Cobra, I wanted to give myself the agency to distort all truths to see what jumped out to me as truthful in a reactive, and sometimes illusionary or misleading, sense-in all of this faulty rawness. I was really drawn to sounds and images that felt satisfyingly 'false'-I was drawn to Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures, my favorite drag queens in Los Angeles who magically bombed every Monday, Ryan Trecartin's A Family Finds Entertainment, Sunik Kim's Potential, and so much more."
"I want people to laugh at me and with me, to make this moment in my life feel like a gross, important, and unimportant spectacle."
Lucy Liyou, a California-based ambient musician and sound artist, transforms her semi-autobiographical theatrical work Mister Cobra into an album releasing April 17 via Orange Milk. The project debuts as a performance at Performance Space New York on March 28. Liyou wrote, recorded, and produced the 12-song album herself, following her 2025 release Every Video Without Your Face, Every Sound Without Your Name. Mr Cobra revisits a high school period when Liyou fell in love with a predator, working through shame, anger, disappointment, and dark humor. Liyou intentionally distorted truths to discover what felt authentically truthful, drawing inspiration from Cecil Taylor, drag performance, and experimental video art to create deliberately false-sounding elements that produce disembodying frenzy.
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