Percussionists Stephen Flinn and Michael Evans join forces with sound artist Bruce Tovsky for an evening of improvisations, exploring the territory between acoustic instrumentation and electronic manipulation. Flinn’s extended technique mastery of the elements of a drum kid and Evans’ journeyman creation of sounds are acoustically generated and combined with lo-tech electronics, processed sustainer guitar and cracklebox.
Stephen Flinn is a drummer and percussionist who also works with unusual sound sources including self-made instruments and found objects. He lives in San Francisco and spends his time teaching, performing, and writing.
Michael Evans is an improvising drummer/percussionist/multi-instrumentalist/composer whose work investigates and embraces the collision of sound and theatrics. His work with unusual sound sources includes found objects, homemade instruments, the theremin and various digital and homemade analog electronics. He has performed with Jeff Arnal, Claire Barratt, Jac Berrocal, Lol Coxhill, EasSide Percussion, Fast Forward, God is my Co-Pilot, Susan Hefner, Skip LaPlante’s Muisc for Homemade INstruments and others.
Bruce Tovsky is a visual/sound artist. For the past several years he has been creating live video and sound improvisations wiht artists such as John Hudak, David Linton and Kim Cascone at spaces such as Diapason, Experimental Intermedia, Issue Project Room, and his own installation space 106BLDG30 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. www.skeletonhome.com