Sunday October 17 * 8pm Eastern * online via ESS
If you haven’t been able to come out for our outdoor shows this season, tune in to check out some highlights!
MARTİN & TETÉ
Teté Leguía (bass) and Martín Escalante (sax) explore the extremes of noise music and performance. Never resorting to distortion or effects pedals they have both spent years developing extended techniques in order to find original sounds and unmatched intensity using their traditional instruments. Their first time playing together was a chance meeting in Lima while performing in trio alongside drummer Miguel Flores (Pax) in 2014. Immediately they began plotting an album which they were finally able to record at Lasse Marhaug’s Best Studio in Oslo and then make into a CD on Peru’s Buh Records in 2016. Tours in Mexico and Peru followed shortly after as well as two more cassette albums on Escalante’s own Sploosh Records, Huachafa (2017) and Monkey Cop (2018) which was re-issued on CD in 2020.
CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA & CAMILO ÁNGELES
Keen documentarian of the experimental scene in Mexico for more than five years, Concepción Huerta has extended her creative practice of visual media towards sound design. With a constant activity in the noise, improvisation and audiovisual collaboration circuit, she creates aural textures of narrative background with ambient and noise as pillars. Concepción has an EP “Cueva de Cristales” (2018) for Vorágine, an album for Static Discos, Personal Territories (2019), an EP with Fliae.latam “Lost Time” (2020), an imminent album in collaboration with Mabe Fratti, and an upcoming release with the Amor Muere ensemble and an extensive list of collaborations that include artists such as Fernando Vigueras, CNDSD, Mabe Fratti, Camille Mandoki, Gibrana Cervantes, RSNNC, José Orozco M, Rodrigo Ambríz, Camilo Ángeles.
Camilo Ángeles, flutist, composer, improviser, sound artist borned in Perú. Works with interest on the hybridization of aesthetics, the search for an own aesthetic vision through a deconstructed approach on his own instrument and musical language; crafted by several years of exploring ways to expand his sound aesthetic spectrum. He co-directs his record label TVL REC and works as the curator of the Lima Jazz Festival. Has received awards and scholarships from the National Fund for the Arts of Argentina, and also received the Science, Art and Technology Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima, Perú. He currently compose and directs the music for his ensemble "Nicotina es Primavera”, a sextet with whom he has published two albums and has a third one coming out by the end of 2021; and a long list of other album releases and collaborations with artists like Brandon Seabrook, Kaja Draksler, Chris Pitsiokos, William Winant, Paula Shocron, Tony Malaby, Anaïs Maviel, Brandon Lopez, Cara Stacey, Ben Bennett, Andrew Drury, Sales de Baño, Ido Bukelman, Samuel Hall, Javier Bustos, Aviva Endean, Chatori Shimizu, among others.
NINA RYSER
Nina Ryser was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and is now based in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BA in Music Composition at Bard College, where she studied electronic music and composed music for a variety of ensembles, including the American Symphony Orchestra. She performs in several bands and projects that regularly record and tour across the US and Canada, including Palberta, Shimmer, Fire Roast, and Data. Palberta, an all-women art punk/pop trio of 8 years, has relseased eight albums and toured prolifically, opening for Bikini Kill, Deerhoof and Porches, among many other groups.
Nina started writing songs on piano, singing and recording when she was 8 years old. Over the years her solo project has entailed synths, vocals and electronics, and whatever objects she finds around her house. She regularly performs across the east coast, and has released six albums, all home-recorded. Her latest album, Paths of Color, is her sixth solo album. “In line with her past few releases, Paths of Color is characteristic Nina Ryser: dreamy, wonky, synth-based art-pop that’s bubbly, edgy, sweet, and dark all at once; with elements of post-punk, art rock, and free jazz. But on Paths, Ryser has honed her home recording and mixing skills and refined her home studio set-up, making it her most polished-sounding work yet. But she’s maintained that homemade vibe, as well as the freedom of childhood expression that is so crucial to her sound. Her background in contemporary classical music serves to hold it all together in a taut, designful balance.” (Leah Mandel, Cowgirl Records) ninaryser.bandcamp.com/
JOHN HOEGBURG & JONAH GIULIANO
John Hoegberg is a guitarist and singer-songwriter whose music is an idealistic marriage of the emotional intensity, poetics and narrative of songwriting with the instrumental experimentalism, novelty and freewheeling energy of free-improvisation. The songs bend back and forth between order and disorder, using confoundment as a major compositional tool. Microtonal tunings and various extended techniques flavor his guitar playing - the notable example of which is his preference to play seated with the guitar flat on it’s back in his lap. An emphasis on patterns, à la American primitivism and minimalism, is also a strong element.
Like the compositions themselves, his sung lyrics are simultaneously highly abstract just as they are affecting. Influences in this arena include poets such as Christopher Dewdney, and writers such as David Markson.
Accompanying his guitar and voice is often a percussionist, Jonah Giuliano, whose musical ability to comfortably traverse between arrhythmia and rhythm, chaos and structure, has made them a logical and personally enjoyable musical duo since they began performing together as children. ehserecords.bandcamp.com/album/motion-detecting-songs
CMW PLAYERS
An evolving collective of DC improvisers presenting a free-form sonic mind-meld. Tonight's lineup: Kirsten Lies-Warfield, Layne Garrett, Nate Scheible, Nik Francis, Sarah Hughes.