Piano stalwart Scott R. Looney comes out of the woodwork playing duos and a trio grouping with friends old and new. Scott has been playing with percussionist Kjell Nordeson off and on for well over a decade, frequently in groupings featuring ex-local bassist Damon Smith, but with a variety of sax players. This time they’ll […]
TO….OBLIVION
Giacomo Fiore performs three works that situate the electric guitar in dialogue with itself through looping and delaying processes: from the postminimal textures of Eve Beglarian until it blazes (2001), through Anthony Porter’s mercurial loops in hair of the thing that bit you (2011), to Danny Clay’s Turntable Drawing No. 16, with its ambiguous explorations […]
TO….OBLIVION
Giacomo Fiore performs three works that situate the electric guitar in dialogue with itself through looping and delaying processes: from the postminimal textures of Eve Beglarian until it blazes (2001), through Anthony Porter’s mercurial loops in hair of the thing that bit you (2011), to Danny Clay’s Turntable Drawing No. 16, with its ambiguous explorations […]
Martin Azevedo & Planarian Collective, with Dennis Aman: Disassembling The Clocks
Writer & sound artist Martin Azevedo combines found sounds, homemade electronic & acoustic instruments, experimental song craft and vivid storytelling to uncover a world of ghosts. Composer & instrument builder Dennis Aman performs on custom-designed instruments to explore a family history of inventions, devotions, confinements and escapes. […]
Martin Azevedo & Planarian Collective, with Dennis Aman: Disassembling The Clocks
Writer & sound artist Martin Azevedo combines found sounds, homemade electronic & acoustic instruments, experimental song craft and vivid storytelling to uncover a world of ghosts. Composer & instrument builder Dennis Aman performs on custom-designed instruments to explore a family history of inventions, devotions, confinements and escapes. […]
Sontag Shogun (NYC/Montreal) with Maggi Payne
Sontag Shogun is a collaborative trio that makes use of analog sound treatments of foley and tape, and nostalgic solo piano compositions in harmony to depict abstract places in our memory. Textures built from organic materials such as sand, slate, boiling water, brush and dried leaves, both produced live in performance and recorded to weathered […]
Sontag Shogun (NYC/Montreal) with Maggi Payne
Sontag Shogun is a collaborative trio that makes use of analog sound treatments of foley and tape, and nostalgic solo piano compositions in harmony to depict abstract places in our memory. Textures built from organic materials such as sand, slate, boiling water, brush and dried leaves, both produced live in performance and recorded to weathered […]
I Will Learn To
In this inspired new music program, artists Jordan Curcuruto (percussion), Chelsea Villanueva (clarinet), Phoebe Wu (piano), and Jocelyn Zelasko (voice) explore empowerment within relationships. Each musical work completes the phrase: “I will learn to…” (e.g., laugh, love, grieve, empower, forgive). Repertoire ranges from solos to works for the entire ensemble by emerging composers Jordan Curcuruto, […]
I Will Learn To
In this inspired new music program, artists Jordan Curcuruto (percussion), Chelsea Villanueva (clarinet), Phoebe Wu (piano), and Jocelyn Zelasko (voice) explore empowerment within relationships. Each musical work completes the phrase: “I will learn to…” (e.g., laugh, love, grieve, empower, forgive). Repertoire ranges from solos to works for the entire ensemble by emerging composers Jordan Curcuruto, […]
Closing Reception: Inventions from The Maze and The Machine
Inventions from The Maze and The Machine: Instruments by Daniel Schmidt for the Paul Dresher Ensemble Featuring inventions by Daniel Schmidt in collaboration with Paul Dresher Closing Reception 6pm Artist Talk and Demonstration with Paul Dresher and Daniel Schmidt: 7pm Paul Dresher and Daniel Schmidt have collaborated on invented instruments since the mid-1970s. Their initial inventions were for […]