JOYAS PEQUEÑAS

Joyas Pequeñas is an installation and sound ritual memorializing the chicanx/ indigenous bodies, both spiritual and physical, slain at the hands of the brutally imposed modern, colonial, gender system. A system which, through a systematic replication/ repetition of Euro-christian ideologies, erasure of indigenous cosmologies, and dichotomous hierarchies of human and non human, has been used to justify the rape, murder, and control of colonized bodies, memory, and land. The objects sounds and actions of this piece are a desperate attempt to connect with signs of culture and shreds of identity. A hybridized, fragile space.


A Snack Lacking Nutritional Value

A video installation which challenges the value placed on displays of Hyper-Masculinity and the often racist standards which mainstream society has deemed fit to dictate the value and beauty of the body. In this piece, Louis Coy wishes to present the radical thought that a small, effeminate, queer person of color is a sexual being, with intellectual value, who is fit to critique the terms of society which belittle their existence and de-value them both physically and intellectually, while creating new ownership of terms such as “twink” in an act of disidentification.


JOYAS PEQUEÑAS (PREMIERE PERFORMANCE)

Premiere performance of Louis Coy’s “Joyas Pequeñas,” a sound ritual and installation memorializing the Xicanx/Indigenous bodies, both physical and spiritual, slain at the hands of an invasive Euro-Christian gender binary.

Performed February 12th 2017 at California Institute of the Arts, Roy O. Disney Hall.
Louis Coy- Vocals, Bass Clarinet, Flute
ABE – Vocals, Electronics
Marta Tiesenga – Bari Sax
Dylan Freeman – Electric Guitar


Klezmer – Popirosn

Recorded at The Boston Conservatory, April 9th, 2015
Music and Lyrics by Herman Yablokov in the late 20’s, as performed by the Barry Sisters in the late 30’s. Arranged by Louis Coy
Vocalists – Lena Glikson, Renata Kapilevich, Louis Coy
Guitar- Jessica Fennely, Violin- Lizzie Jones, Dillon Robb, Ed Wharton, Cello- Christopher Mendez, Bass- Andrew Harlan, Tuba- David Vess, Trombone/Trumpet- John Niro, Clarinet- Sophie Kass, Saxophone- Charlie Larson, Percussion- Dan Pessalano, Andy Jung


Klezmer – Yidl Mitn Fidl


Recorded at The Boston Conservatory, April 9th, 2015
Based on music written by Abraham Ellstein, Lyrics by Itzik Manger for the Polish film “Yidl Mitn Fidl” Staring Molly Picon in 1936. Arranged by Michael Wartofski
Vocalists – Lena Glikson, Renata Kapilevich, Louis Coy
Guitar- Jessica Fennely, Violin- Lizzie Jones, Dillon Robb, Ed Wharton, Cello- Christopher Mendez, Bass- Andrew Harlan, Tuba- David Vess, Trombone/Trumpet- John Niro, Clarinet- Sophie Kass, Saxophone- Charlie Larson, Percussion- Dan Pessalano, Andy Jung


Klezmer Band – Bublichki


Recording from April 9th, 2015
Lyrics and Music by Yakov Jadow, Odessa Ukraine 1922, as performed by the Barry Sisters in 1939, Transcribed and Arranged by Louis Coy.
Vocalists – Lena Glikson, Renata Kapilevich, Louis Coy
Guitar- Jessica Fennely, Violin- Lizzie Jones, Dillon Robb, Ed Wharton, Cello- Christopher Mendez, Bass- Andrew Harlan, Tuba- David Vess, Trombone/Trumpet- John Niro, Clarinet- Sophie Kass, Saxophone- Charlie Larson, Percussion- Dan Pessalano, Andy Jung


Ned Rorem’s Ariel – A Cycle of Five Poems of Sylvia Plath for Soprano, Clarinet, and Piano.

Yukiko Oba- Piano, Amelia Wilbur- Soprano


“Creep” Radiohead Bass Clarinet Cover

Senior Recital of Louis David Coy
The Boston Conservatory, April 9th, 2015
Arrangement by Cornelius Boots, for Edmund Welles in 1997
Bass Clarinetists: Chuck Furlong, David Angelo, Stephanie Clark, Louis Coy
Dancers: Christiana Roberts, Emily Richards, Holly Wilder