Percussionist and composer Lesley Mok (Instagram) will perform at white house in Orlando on Monday, November 16, as part of a four-city Florida tour, with a set from composer Felipe Tovar-Henao (Website). Tovar-Henao uses computer algorithms as expressive tools for “human and post-human creativity,” and will perform sounds generated from open-source code. Mok will follow with a set of electroacoustic drumming. They describe the music as “a passage through affective zones,” like a slow, deliberate walk through a museum “where its unknown sensorium unfolds itself to you.”
Mok is a New York City-based percussionist, composer, and sound artist. Their debut album, “The Living Collection,” was released in May 2023 on American Dreams Records and was named International Debut Album of the Year at the 2024 Deutscher Jazz Preis. Their solo album, “transient,” came out in July 2026 on American Dreams Records and moves into beat-making, electronic composition, and transformed acoustic sound. Mok is a 2024 ASCAP Fred Ho Awardee and a Hermitage Fellow, and has performed with artists including Myra Melford, Mary Halvorson, Marilyn Crispell and Craig Taborn.
Tovar-Henao is a multimedia artist, developer and researcher whose work spans digital instrument design, generative audiovisual algorithms and machine learning. His music has been performed by ensembles including Alarm Will Sound and Quatuor Diotima, and he was recently appointed assistant professor of AI and composition at the University of Florida, according to the release.
The Civic Minded Five, a volunteer group that presents creative music in Central Florida, is presenting the evening in partnership with Timucua Arts Foundation (Website). The group’s concerts focus on experimental, improvised, ambient, and jazz music that might not otherwise come to the area.
Doors open at 7 p.m. Tovar-Henao performs at 7:30 p.m., followed by Mok at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased HERE.
