Velvet Revolutions: Sylvee & The Sea

For the late-night finale of her Velvet Revolutions residency, Pieta Brown explores experimental ambient music, enlisting electric and slide guitars, keyboards, drums, and cinematic live visuals. For fans of improvisational sonic visuality.

Brown’s Sylvee & The Sea project was born when the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis commissioned her to curate and score 60 minutes of experimental films in 2022. Brown chose to highlight avant-garde films by women and performed her experimental score live with her band to great reception. Later that year, Brown recorded and released an album of original cinematic instrumentals, “The Less I Needed The Better I Felt”—featuring John Convertino (Calexico), Don Was, and CJ Carmerieri (Carm)—under the moniker Sylvee & The Sea. Since that release, Brown has continued to perform live with her shapeshifting band Sylvee & The Sea in various cinematic and experimental circumstances.