Sunday October 2 * 7pm * TICKETS
A night of improvised music with three individual sets, followed by a group improvisation with all five performers.
Jamie Sandel is a musician and creative producer based in Northwest DC. His life’s mission is to be in service to art in all ways — through performance, writing, advocacy, photography, videography, graphic design, audio engineering — and to resist systems of power, through art and otherwise. He has studied violin with living legends in folk and jazz. Past musical collaborators include Jason Robinson, Luke Stewart, Bartees Strange, Misfit Marti, Rahiem Supreme, October ’71 and Sarah Hughes.
Mark Cisneros is a Washington, DC based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser whose creative output toggles between the Jazz, experimental, punk, and improvised music worlds. As a saxophonist he studied at the New School in New York City under the tutelage of such greats as Ahmed Abdullah, David Schnitter, Joe Chambers, and Tim Price. His current trio with bassist Luke Stewart and drummer Nik Francis called WE WERE HERE BEFORE just released their debut record on Catalytic Sound. He also currently plays reeds, percussion, and upright bass with Zach Barocas’ New Freedom Sound, drums in The Make-Up, and guitar in Hammered Hulls, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, and Des Demonas.
Cutting Ceremony is a new improvised music trio. The members are:
Pete Dennis (they/he), a musician, improviser, composer, visual artist, and teacher. Living in West Philadelphia, Dennis is inspired by their beautiful community and the future. Other ever present inspirations include William Parker, the works of Octavia E. Butler, their partner Abigail, and the knowledge that all vibrations carry the potential to transmit the truths of life and death. Dennis’s recorded creations are released using the project name Search for the Infinite Light and include but are not limited to: Killing a Dixie Hummingbird (2019), World’s End Welcoming Committee (2021), and pastē (2022). They believe that sound is the foundation of healing and would like to acknowledge all master improvisers of the past, present, and future;
Tracy Lisk (she/her), a percussionist who mainly performs on drum set, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Lisk’s history as a painter and background in Brazilian percussion inform the substance of her improvisations which contain references to rhythmic structures while maintaining a fluid, suspended continuity. She has collaborated with William Parker, saxophonist Gary Hassay, Andrea Pensado, dancer Ryuzo Fukuhara (JP, SI), and Mia Zabelka (AU), cellist Helena Espvall (PT), among others;
and Abe Mamet (he/him), a French horn player from Denver, Colorado and living in Mt. Rainier, MD. Abe's main artistic motive as a composer and instrumentalist is to use considered composition and rigorously practiced improvisation to more honestly ground himself, his fellow musicians, and his audiences within the spaces they occupy daily. Abe is further interested in expanding the use of the French horn in groove-oriented improvised music (aligned with and informed by jazz/creative music/BAM), and expanding the technical and theoretical limitations of that instrument.
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