Kyle Eyre Clyd is a sound artist and performance artist who has performed in over 200 shows, sometimes under different monikers—most recently AGNES. She has played at D.I.Y. warehouses, outdoor generator shows, universities, museums, galleries, bars, and nightclubs. She has an M.F.A. in Music/Sound from Bard College and a B.F.A. in interdisciplinary art from the Cooper Union. She has performed as a local artist in Alabama on and off for eight years since moving there in 2017; in New Orleans, LA for four years; in Western Massachusetts for one year; and in NYC for eleven years. She has also toured extensively, appeared on radio, and has exhibited performance documentation at galleries; she has distributed music through distros and radio internationally. She has been interviewed in The Village Voice and was a Village Voice number one noise artist in 2012. She was a number one experimental artist in November 2019 on Bandcamp’s site. She has also been written about in Vice, Magnet magazine, Art Forum, Wire Magazine, Phaidon’s website, The Gambit, and more.
Most notably, she has performed at Issue Project Room, Pioneer Works, Artist’s Space, Sculpture Center, Tracy Williams Gallery, PPOW Gallery, Outpost Artists Resources, Eyebeam, Theater for A New City, The Stone, and more in New York City. She has also performed in support of Joan Joans at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. In New Orleans she has presented work at the Contemporary Art Center, Good Children Gallery, City Park, and more. She has performed at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), The Red Room (Baltimore, MD), and Rhizome (Washington, D.C.) She has also performed at Bennington University, the Cooper Union, Bard College, Columbia University (on WGXC), at N.Y.U. (on WNYU), and has exhibited scores at Texas Tech University. She has also presented performance documentation at the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She was a Visiting Faculty member at Antioch University in 2010-under her given name- and a guest lecturer at Bruce High Quality Foundation University and a panelist at Outpost Artist Resources for Ende Tymes. She has performed live on the radio at WFMU (three times), Wave Farms Arts, and-as listed above-on WGXC and WNYU. She has been a headliner at Ende Tymes Festival in New York City four times; at RVA Festival in Richmond, VA twice; and has been a headliner at INC Miami twice.
Kyle Eyre Clyd has collaborated with Keith Connolly, Samara Lubelski, Johnny Coley, Turner Williams, Jasper Lee, Tom Thayer, Joan Jonas, Lea Bertucci, Suzanne Kite, Zeljko McMullen, Patrick Cole, and more.
As a sound artist and performance artist Kyle Eyre Clyd has been curated by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Jay Sanders (then-Whitney Museum performance art curator), Lawrence Kumpf (current Blank Forms curator), Lea Bertucci, Jeff Ryan (Excepter), Ladonna Smith, and more.
She has shared the stage with Raven Chacon, Phil Niblock, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Tamio Shiraishi (Fushitsusha), Maria Chavez, Aki Onda, Aaron Dilloway, Lingua Ingota, Pharmakon, Metalux, Haribo (led by Raul Denieves), Sarah Hennies, Yugi Agematsu, Tom Thayer, Circuit de Yeux, Ladonna Smith, and more.
Kyle Eyre Clyd studied music under Diamanda Galas, Matana Roberts, David Behrman, David Grubbs, Alan Licht, Jessica Rylan, Jace Clayton, and more at Bard College’s Music/Sound MFA program. She studied conceptual art including performance art and community organizing under Hans Haacke, Tom Burr, Walid Raad, Sharon Hayes, and more at the Cooper Union’s BFA program. She also studied advanced (abstract) painting at the Alabama School of Fine Arts under Darius Hill.
SHOW HISTORY:
2025 Wild Violet Gardens—Birmingham, AL (music performance with Mother Harmony)
2025 Noble’s—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
2025 Cha House feat. Joan Mills—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
2025 In Bloom Yoga sound bath series—Birmingham, AL (sound bath performance)
2025 In Bloom Yoga sound bath series—Birmingham, AL (sound bath performance)
2025 In Bloom Yoga sound bath series—Birmingham, AL (sound bath performance)
2025 EVA feat. Ladonna Smith and Klimchak—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
2025 EVA feat. Mika Carpenter and Sam Herman—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
2025 EVA Noise Night—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
2025 EVA Guitar Drone Festival—Birmingham, AL (performance art)
12.24 Saturn Bar—Birmingham, AL (music performance with Flusnoix)
04.14.24 EVA feat. Ladonna Smith—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
02.16.20 Jerry’s on Front feat. Tether & Marcia Bassett—Philadelphia, PA (music performance)
02.15.20 Red Room feat. Meredith Moore & Marcia Bassett—Baltimore, MD (music performance)
02.14.20 Issue Project Room feat. Marcia Bassett—NYC (music performance)
2019 EVA—Birmingham, AL (music performance with Flusnoix)
2019 EVA—Birmingham, AL (music performance with Mother Harmony)
2019 Clubhouse on Highland—Birmingham, AL (music performance with Keith Connolly)
2019 EVA—Birmingham, AL (music performance with Johnny Coley)
2019 Firehouse—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
2019 Firehouse–Birmingham, AL (music performance with Johnny Coley)
2019 Saturn Bar—Birmingham, AL (music performance with Mother Harmony)
2019 Cahaba Brewery—Birmingham, AL (music performance with Jasper Lee)
2019 Tampa Noise Festival—Tampa, FL (music performance)
05.2017 Po Boy’s bar—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
04.30.17 Ende Tymes Festival—NYC (headliner-music performance)
2017 Circle Bar—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
02.11.17 INC Festival—Miami, FL (music performance)
02.06.16 INC Festival—Miami, FL (music performance)
11.15.16 Rhizome—Washington, DC (music performance)
11.14.16 Vox Populi—Philadelphia, PA (music performance)
11.11.16 Red Room—Baltimore, MD (music performance)
08.06.16 Contemporary Art Center—New Orelans, LA (music performance)
07.2016 Bard dissertation presentation—Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (music performance)
06.2016 Bard presentation—Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (music performance)
02.06.16 INC Festival—Miami, FL (music performance)
2016 bar in the French Quarter—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2016 Eyedrum—Atlanta, GA (music performance)
2016 show feat. Donald Miller at Siberia—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2016 Mudlark—New Orleans, LA (music performance)*
2016 Saturn Bar—New Orleans, LA (music performance)*
2016 queer loft show—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2016 Manhattan bar feat. Shredded Nerve—NYC (music performance)
2015 Zeitgeist feat. Ora Iso—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2015 Vox Populi—Philadephia, PA (music performance)
2015 Sunview Luncheonette feat. Lea Bertucci—NYC (music performance)
2015 Tallulah’s Cabaret, Buddies in Bad Times Theatere—Toronto, CA (screening of sound art film)
03.25.15 Pleasure Dome—Portland, OR (screening of sound art film)
03.05.15 Tritriangle—Chicago, IL (music performance)
2015 Rob Cambre’s series at Allways Lounge-New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2015 Rob Cambre’s series at Allways Lounge-New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2015 Rob Cambre’s series at Allways Lounge-New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2015 Pre-INC Festival at Siberia—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2015 Mudlark—New Orleans, LA (music performance)*
2015 Saturn Bar—New Orleans, LA (music performance)*
2015 Rotten’s house—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2015 basement show feat. Timeghost—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
09.25.15 Abasement at Max Fish—NYC (music performance)
08.15.15 Trans Pecos—NYC (music performance)
08.13.15 WFMU 91.1 NJ—radio (live music performance)
06.22.15 Issue Project Room at Artist’s Space—NYC (music performance)
07.29.15 Wave Farm WGXC 90.7 Hudson Valley, NY—(live radio performance)
07.2015 Bard presentation—Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (music performance)
06.2015 Bard presentation—Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (music performance)
2015 Babycastles—NYC (music performance)
05.17.15 Ende Tymes Festival—NYC (headliner-music performance)
05.16.15 Ende Tymes Festival—NYC (panelist)
2014 Eyedrum—Atlanta (music performance)
2014 The Sidewinder—Denver, CO (screening of sound art film)
10.24.14 CF’s basement—Providence, RI (music performance)
10.23.14 Trans Pecos—NYC (music performance)
10.23.14 WFMU 91.1 NJ—radio (live music performance)
10.22.14 storefront space—Philadelphia, PA (music performance)
10.21.14 warehouse space—Baltimore, MD (music performance)
10.21.14 RVA Festival—Richmond, VA (music performance)
10.20.14 DC Sonic Circuits—Washington, D.C. (music performance)
10.19.14 Robby Kee’s on tour—Atlanta, GA (music performance)
10.18.14 Mono—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
10.17.14 Circle Bar—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
08.23.14 Issue Project Room at Pioneer Works—NYC (music performance)
06.2014 Bard presentation—Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (music performance)
05.2014 John Doe Records—Hudson, NY (music performance)
05.2014 Mystery Train Records—Amherst, MA (music performance)
05.16.14 Deep Thoughts—Boston, MA (music performance)
2014 Robby Kee’s for one show not on tour—Atlanta, GA (music performance)
05.2014 bar—Providence, RI (music performance)
05.2014 Exile—NYC (music performance)
2014 Music Box—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2014 City Park—New Orelans, LA (music performance)
2014 Siberia—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2014 Mudlark—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2014 Saturn Bar—New Orleans, LA
2013 Sunview Luncheonette feat. Richard Kamerman—NYC (music performance)
2013 Texas Tech University—Lubbock, TX (performance documentation exhibit)
2013 Beloved Church—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
2013 Saturn Bar—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
2013 Mudlark—New Orleans, LA (music performance)
11.09.13 Good Children Gallery—New Orleans, LA (performance documentation exhibited)
05.26.13 Ende Tymes Festival-NYC (headliner-performance art/music performance)
05.26.13 Ende Tymes Festival-NYC (sound art video screening)
2013 NYC club—NYC (music performance)
2013 Ho-SE—NYC (music performance)
2013 ZoZo’s feat. Flaming Dragons—NYC (music performance)
2013 bar—Milwaukee, WI (music performance)
2013 storefront feat. Peter J. Woods—Milwaukee, WI (music performance)
2013 warehouse show—Detroit, MI (music performance)
2013 Jill Flanagan’s warehouse—Chicago, IL (music performance)
2013 bar feat. Shredded Nerve—Cincinnati, OH (music performance)
2013 Kirby’s Beer Store—Wichita, KS (music performance)
2013 Load of Fun—Houston, TX
2013 Dromez’s—Austin, TX
2013 The Forge—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
2013 Eyedrum at the Goat Farm—Atlanta, GA (music performance)
2013 bar—Richmond, VA (music performance)
2013 house show—Baltimore, MD (music performance)
2013 Sam’s—Greenville, NC (music performance)
2013 Apothecary—Asheville, NC (music performance)
2013 bar—Knoxville, TN (music performance)
2013 house show feat. Feeding Tube label roster—Burlington, VT (music performance)
2013 Nate Brennan project space—North Adams, MA (music performance)
2013 Nate Brennan project space—North Adams, MA (music performance)
2012 storefront space feat. Fossils—Albany, NY (music performance)
2012 Nate Brennan project space—North Adams, MA (music performance)
2012 Firehouse—Worcester, MA (music performance)
2012 Bushwick nightclub show feat. MV Carbon and Dylan Hay—NYC (music performance)
11.16.12 Feeding Tube Records—Northampton, MA (music performance)
11.15.12 Austin Sley-Julian’s warehouse–Providence, RI (music performance)
11.14.12 Firehouse—Worcester, MA (music performance)
11.13.12 Mystery Train Records—Amherst, MA (music performance)
11.12.12 John Doe Records—Hudson,NY (music performance)
11.11.12 bar feat. Lazurite—Philadelphia (music performance)
11.10.12 Lazurite’s basement feat. Lazurite—NYC (music performance)
11.09.12 Fitness—NYC (music performance)
09.12.2012 The Forge—Birmingham, AL (music performance)
08.24.2012 Port d’Or–NYC (music performance)
07.2012 Port d’Or–NYC (music performance)
20.12 Barney’s basement—NYC (music performance with Patrick Cole)
2012 Ho-Se—NYC (music performance with Patrick Cole)
06.06.12 club in Williamsburg—NYC (music performance with Patrick Cole)
06.2012-Port d’Or–NYC (music performance)
05.2012-Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
04.21.12 Sound Research Festival, Eyebeam Sound Research Summit—NYC (music performance of sound sculpture)
04.2012 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
03.2012 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
02.2012 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
01.2012 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
12.18.11 WXCR–89.9FM NY (live music performance)
12.2011 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
11.2011 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
10.2011 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
09.2011 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
08.2011 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
07.2011 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
06.25.11 Ende Tymes—Brooklyn, NY (headliner-music performance)
05.2011 Port d’Or (music performance)
04.20.11 The Stone curated by Thurston Moore—NY, NY (music performance)
04.2011 Port d’Or—NY, NY (music performance)
03.27.11 Port d’Or—NY, NY (music performance)
02.2011 Port d’Or—NY, NY (music performance)
02.13.11 WFMU–91.1FM NY (live radio sound event)
2011 storefront club across from BHQ space on Broadway—NYC (performance art/music performance)
02.12.11 ABC No Rio—NYC (music performance)
01.11.11 Port d’Or—NYC (music performance)
2010 International Project Space—Birmingham, UK (performance documentation screening)
10.29.10 Port d’Or (music performance)
10.13.10 Silent Barn—NYC (music performance)
09.04.10 Babylon Festival—Belfast, ME (music performance)
09.03.10 Strange Maine–Portland, ME (performance art/music performance)
09.02.10 Franklin Street–Boston, MA (music performance)
08.11.10 P.I.F.A.S.—Philadelphia, PA (performance art and music performance)
08.06.10 Bodega—Philadelphia, PA (performance art and music performance)
07.21.10 Port D’Or—NYC (music performance)
07.17.10 Division of Human Works—NYC (music performance)
06.17.10 Guggenheim Museum—NYC (featured performer in Joan Jonas’ Mirror Piece I)
06.03.10 Sculpture Center—NYC (performance art)
2010 Secret Project Robot—NYC (performance art)
2010 bar in Park Slope with Hairibo and Turner Williams—NYC (performance art)
2010 Death By Audio—NYC (performance art)
2010 Secret Project Robot—NYC (performance art)
04.10.10 Bennington College—Bennington, Vermont (music performance)
04.03.10 Division Street Gallery—Detroit, MI (music performance)
04.02.10 Camp Bell—Chicago, IL (music performance)
04.01.10 Maison Fause—Bloomington, IL (music performance)
03.30.10 Rachel’s Café–Bloomington, IN (music performance)
03.29.10 Enemy Sound—Chicago, IL (music performance)
03.29.10 Monument II Gallery—Chicago, IL (music performance)
03.28.10 The Nest–Milwaukee, WI (music performance)
03.27.10 The Cool Ranch—Cleveland, OH (music performance)
03.26.10 Garfield Artworks—Pittsburgh, PA (music performance)
03.24.10 Port D’Or—NYC (music performance)
03.12.10 Port D’Or—NYC (music performance)
02.19.10 house show feat. Trip and Whipple—Philadelphia, PA (performance art)
02.18.10 record store—Greenville, NC (performance art)
02.17.10 Ryan Martin’s (performance art)
02.16.10 Eyedrum—Atlanta, GA (performance art)
02.15.10 Bird House—Birmingham, AL (performance art)
02.14.10 Jasper Lee’s—Montevallo, AL (performance art)
02.11.10 Port D’Or—NYC (performance art)
01.29.10 Port D’Or—NYC (music performance)
01.25.10 Death By Audio—(performance art)
01.18.10 Death By Audio—(music performance)
01.16.10 The Firehouse—Wooster, MA (music performance)
12.31.10 Port D’Or—NYC (music performance)
12.20.09-Century Plaza Mall art gallery—Birmingham, AL (performance art)
11.13.09 Port d’Or—NYC (performance art)
08.29.09 West Nile—NYC (performance art/music performance)
08.22.09 Big Rock Candy Mountain—Philadelphia, PA (music performance)
08.08.09 LOF/t—Baltimore, MD (music performance)
06.27.09 Goodbye Blue Monday—NYC (music performance)
06.14.09 Jack the Pelican Presents—NYC (performance art/music performance)
06.11.09 PPOW art gallery—NYC (performance art/music performance)
05.29.09 Silent Barn—NYC (performance art/music performance)
05.06.09 Silent Barn—NYC (performance art/music performance)
04.04.09 Silent Barn—NYC (performance art/music performance)
03.06.09 Grace Exhibition Space—NYC (performance art/music performance)
2009-Synthetic Zero Event, Bronx Culture Trolly Event-Bronx, NY
11.15.08 Synthetic Zero at Lucky Cat—NYC (performance art)
05.16.08 St. Marks Poetry Project–NYC (performance art/reading)
05.01.08 Bruce High Quality Foundation–NYC (performance art/reading)
04.05.08 Anthology Film Archives—NYC (performative lecture)
2007 St. Marks Poetry Project at St. Marks Church (performance art)
2007 Zebulon—NYC (performance art)
2006 Galapagos—NYC (music performance)
2006 Galapagos—NYC (playwriting performed in troop)
02.07.06 Cakeshop–NYC (music performance)
10.31.06 St. Joseph’s Church,-Albany, NYC (music performance)
2005 Princess Theater—Columbus, MS (performance art/music performance)
02.14.05 AC Temple—Birmingham, AL (performance art/music performance)
10.31.05 Theater for the New City-NYC (music performance)
2005-Salon, Tom Burr’s project space—NYC (performance art)
03.2005 Cooper Union–NYC (music performance)
04.05.05 Cooper Union–NYC (music performance)
*I performed at Mudlark and Saturn Bar multiple times per year in New Orleans from 2013-2016