KOLE GALBRAITH AND WARREN REALRIDER LIVE PERFORMANCE ft. WHITE BOY SCREAM

Warren Realrider and Kole Galbraith album cover artwork. Courtesy of artists.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Drifter’s, 1305 W Cameron St., Tulsa, OK, 74127

Presented by Pitku and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, this evening features a live performance by Kole Galbraith and Tulsa Artist Fellow Warren Realrider, continuing their ongoing collaboration through sound, visual art, and site-specific recording processes, with a guest appearance by Micaela Tobin (White Boy Scream).

Courtesy of Warren Realrider & Kole Galbraith.

Kole Galbraith is a multi-disciplinary artist and enrolled member of the Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, working primarily in sound, audio-visual, and found-object installation. Based in Seattle and Tartu, Estonia, he has spent the past decade active in underground experimental music scenes across the U.S. and Europe. His compositions draw from musique-concrète, metal, jazz, and contemporary classical, and are thematically rooted in Interior Salish folklore and Indigenous experience. Galbraith’s performances range from frenetic noise improvisations to long-form, site-responsive sonic narratives. He co-runs the label Obscure & Terrible, performs in the duo Coyote Teeth, and has collaborated with artists such as Lori Goldston, Chloe Alexandra Thompson, and Maja Osojnik. Alongside visual artist Sean Waple, he creates audio-visual installations exploring human-landscape relationships and the concept of “the Spectacle,” with exhibitions in Berlin, Tulsa, NYC, and beyond. For CYCLE II, COUSIN supported Galbraith’s creative practice.

Warren Realrider is a Pawnee/Crow multidisciplinary sound artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While studying painting at the University of Oklahoma, he began an exploration of sound, materials, and site as elements of his art practice. Warren created the Tick-Suck noise performance project in 2016 and has since presented his solo works and sound performance collaborations in varied Oklahoma locations as well as distant locales such as Spokane and New York City.

His works such as IIII Kitapâtu and Unassigned Data work within the unclaimed spaces between contemporary anti-plains existence, universe engagement, and untethered sound to create hypnotic structures of human/item interface. Realrider works to play the tensions and time locations between objects, functions, and movements to create sound pieces lashed to the frameworks of noise art, improvisation, and experimental composition. Realrider is a 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee.

Micaela Tobin (White Boy Scream) is a composer and sound artist who merges operatic technique with noise, electronics, and ritual performance to explore identity, resistance, and empowerment. Performing under the moniker White Boy Scream, she uses her soprano voice to dismantle colonial frameworks and express her diasporic experience as a first-generation Filipina-American. Her critically acclaimed albums BAKUNAWA and APOLAKI blend sonic ritual, ancestral memory, and myth, with The Wire naming BAKUNAWA a top release of 2020 and Passion of the Weiss praising APOLAKI as “a brilliant showcase” of artistic evolution. Tobin’s live sets oscillate between harsh noise, drone, and extended vocal textures, pushing opera into immersive and defiant new territory. As a composer-director, she premiered her first cinematic opera BAKUNAWA: Opera of the Seven Moons at REDCAT and debuted her second, APOLAKI: Opera of the Scorched Earth, at Zorthian Ranch in 2023. Tobin is a 2025–2027 Tulsa Artist Fellow and lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Established in 2015, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship was created as a place-based initiative by the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) to address pressing challenges faced by contemporary artists and arts workers living in and joining Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa Artist Fellowship believes the arts are critical to advancing cultural citizenship and supports community-invested practitioners who intentionally engage with our city.

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