Amy Kohn’s highly charged, intricate art songs meld with The Life of Onions: Black Arrow Productions videos of objects and actions, created for this night.
Meeting as they do with violin and cello above a unifying drone, Conrad and Carbon explode the space we normally think of in connection with string quartets, waltz music, and country fiddlin’. Chaotic parameters are bent and rigorously sculpted using techniques that have been revealed through enduring experimentation.
Tonight’s performance features 2 new works for theremin. Also featured is a new work by Dorit Chrysler in collaboration with Danish artist Jesper Just.
Shawn Onsgard presents fresh selections from his avant jazz compositions arranged for solo piano and Hammond organ. Joined by Maguire, Cleaver, and Halvorson; an unbalanced trio of drums, electric guitar, and exposed Rhodes integrates extended sections of exact notation with improvisation.
ISSUE Project Room presents Totem, a noise rock free improvisation trio that ventures from walls of sound to exploring microscopic sound worlds with Blacksberg/Hernandez/Evans/Lipson, a collective ensemble that plays improvised music.
The Apestaartje and Incunabulum labels present 2 nights of music focusing on the use of traditional instrumentation (lute, acoustic guitar etc) and styles (Baroque Music, Folk forms etc) in combination w/ contemporary experimental practices and adaptations.