An Evening of Performances with Spencer Yeh and Damon & Naomi

Join us for a special closing program celebrating Salad Days: Primary Information. Experimental musician, composer, and artist Spencer Yeh will perform alongside Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang. Longtime collaborators, musicians, founders of the independent press Exact Change, and alumni of Harvard (VES), Damon & Naomi have played a significant role in supporting artists' books, experimental culture, and independent publishing. Interdisciplinary sound artist C. Spencer Yeh has collaborated with Primary Information to release two acclaimed experimental LPs: Solo Voice I – X (2015) and The RCA Mark II (2024).

6:30–8:00 pm, Sert Gallery, Level 3

Free and open to the public. 

Seating in the Carpenter Center is limited, please register here. 

Please email: [email protected] with any questions about accessing Level 3. 

Damon & Naomi began playing music together as the rhythm section, co-songwriters, and sometime singers in Galaxie 500. The band’s three albums on Rough Trade (Today,On Fire, and This Is Our Music) were genre-defying landmarks of atmospheric post-punk, inspiring countless other artists who followed in their wake. Since the early 1990s, Damon & Naomi have worked as a duo exploring folk music, psychedelia, and collaborations with other like-minded musicians on a series of albums for Shimmy Disc, Sub Pop, Drag City, and their own label 20/20/20. In addition to their work as musicians, Damon & Naomi are the publishers of Exact Change, a small press dedicated to avant-garde literature and artists’ writings. Damon is also a writer, author of several books and essayist for publications such as Pitchfork, Artforum, and his own newsletter Dada Drummer Almanach. Naomi is a visual artist, photographer and graphic designer, as well as director of music videos (Sharon van Etten, Steve Gunn, Lee Ranaldo, Meg Baird, Waxahatchee, Julia Holter) and the essay film Never Be A Punching Bag for Nobody. 

C. Spencer Yeh is an interdisciplinary artist, improviser, and composer known for his music project Burning Star Core. His video works are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. Yeh is on the advisory board for Montez Press Radio, is a contributing editor for BOMB and Triple Canopy, and was a former programmer and trailer editor for Spectacle Theater, a microcinema in Brooklyn. He has published two works with Primary Information, Solo Voice I-X and The RCA Mark II. Recent presentations of work include World of Music with Tufts University Art Galleries, Impossible Music (curated by Candice Hopkins and Raven Chacon), and Tales from Area 212 with Creative Time. Recent performances include collaborations with Kwami Winfield, Moriah Evans, Char Jeré and Michael Candy, John Dieterich and Raven Chacon, Jordan Deal, Ka Baird, Audrey Chen, Che Chen, Alex Zhang Hungtai, and More Eaze. He scored Tim Geraghty and Sarah Halpern’s 2026 film Monument.