WINDSCOUR Joe Moffett approaches his work with a keen interest in unconventional sounds and forms, collective improvisation, and the intersection of action and stillness. He is a co-founder of several projects, including ambient improv trio Earth Tongues. He has also appeared with a number of artists and projects including Yoshi Wada & Joe Morris. @moffijazz | https://www.joemoffettmusic.com/ Zach Rowden deals with the acoustic and performative possibilities of the upright / electric bass and violin. Current collaborations with Iancu Dumitrescu and the late Ana-Maria Avram’s Hyperion Ensemble as member and soloist,Tyshawn Sorey,Leila Bordreuil & Charmaine Lee. Rowden also performs with Henry Birdsey as Tongue Depressor and the Crazy Doberman collective. @zach___rowden | https://zachrowden.bandcamp.com/
BONNIE KANE Dedicated improvisor and electro acoustic pioneer, Bonnie Kane’s music is formed from equal exposure to the avant-garde, hard core and the psychedelic. Integrating saxophone, flute, feedback and electronics, her solo and group work traverse the genres of noise, free jazz and improvisation, psych rock, jam band, and bio-composition. Currently based in Western Massachusetts, Kane has toured nationally and worldwide, performing extensively throughout her Eastern USA base. A bandleader since the 1990s, with over 40 releases, those she has performed and recorded with include: John Spencer, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Tatsuya Nakatani, Chris Forsyth, Kevin Shea, Walter Wright, Andrea Pensado, and John Loggia.
“I’m interested in what a musician can bring to the moment of creation”
TRACY LISK Tracy Lisk is a drummer, painter, and curator who resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although she is an internationally renowned percussionist, a large amount of her creative output has been visual art, which has been a strong source for her free compositions on the drum set. 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 recorded and played with Gary Hassay, William Parker, and Mia Zabelka. She has toured extensively as the drummer for Butoh artist, Ryuzo Fukuhara.
SPECTRUM 3 Spectrum 3 is a fiery, but soulful vanguard music trio that combines “the cry” of jazz with various other idioms, including the raw aesthetic of their Detroit home and the extended technique explorations of the avant-garde. Drawing on a large body of composed material, the group varies every show’s balance of pure improvisation with playing - and playing-off of - the themes of bandleader and saxophonist Skeeter Shelton. He’s joined by Joel Peterson on double-bass and Jim Baljo on drums.
Now in his mid-60s, Shelton is finally getting the notoriety he has long deserved. As the son of drummer and Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) charter member, Ajaramu Shelton, Skeeter was largely raised by organist Amina Claudine Meyers and grew up around many of his parents’ collaborators and employers, including Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman and Fred Anderson. His early musical study was with harpist Dorothy Ashby and organist Lyman Woodard. Shelton has been a member of Hakim Jami’s Street Band, The Vizitors, The Northwoods Improvisers, The Soar Trio (with pianist Thollem), The Faruq Z. Bey Quartet, the United States Army Band and Joe Tex’s group. He has performed and/or recorded with Fred Anderson, James Blood Ulmer, Han Bennink, Dennis Gonzales James Carter and Dushun Mosley. At the end of 2021, he released, Sclupperbep, a duo record with percussionist Hamid Drake on Two Rooms Records.
Joel Peterson is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who works in a wide range of musical fields. He has performed with William Hooker, Elliot Sharp, Han Bennink, Damo Suzuki, Marshall Allen, Rhys Chatham, Amy Denio, Salim Washington, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright, Eugene Chadbourne and many others. His chamber music has been performed by members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Opera Theater, New Music Detroit and The Toronto Symphony. Peterson is a founding member of Immigrant Suns; Cycle of Rejuvenation (with William Hooker); BoxDeserter and Soar Trio with Thollem; Agape Trio (with Alex Harding); Scavenger Quartet (with Frank Pahl); Kindred (with Faruq Z. Bey); Viands, and rock-hybrid improvisers Chatoyant. Peterson also owns and operates the art space Trinosophes in Detroit.
James Baljo is best-known as the former guitarist of noise darlings Wolf Eyes, but he also performs solo guitar-with-tape-machine sets as 696 Blues Band, plays drums and percussion in improvising hybrid band Chatoyant and performs various electronics in CJS. His extensive touring has crossed the US, Europe and parts of the Middle East.
LMB LMB is an improvised duo from Washington, D.C. consisting of Abe Mamet (French horn and effects) and Jamie Sandel (violin and effects). The duo formed in 2018 in a performance at Rhizome DC, and has played many venues off- and on-line. With all their music, the duo tries to use practiced improvisation to seek beauty and peace within the spaces they play and communities they play with. As well, both Jamie and Abe use the platform to dive deeper into the worlds of their instruments, seeking new sounds, modes, and relationships with music-making devices.
