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Al Margolis & Tom Hamilton / Leo Chang / Shoz / PraxisCat / Jeff Surak

Sunday November 3 * 7pm * $15-20 * TICKETS

Al Margolis is a composer/performer, improvisor, and painter. Since 1984, often under his project name If, Bwana, he has worked in the field of non-commercial, non-popular music and sound.
https://ifbwana.bandcamp.com/

Tom Hamilton has composed and performed electronic music for over 40 years. His ongoing series of concerts, installations and recordings contrast structure with improvisation and textural electronics with acoustic instruments. He often explores the interaction of many simultaneous layers of activity, prompting the use of “present-time listening” on the part of both performer and listener.
https://tomhamilton1.bandcamp.com/

Leo Chang is a Korean improviser, composer, sound artist, and scholar of experimental music currently living in Brooklyn. Born in Seoul, Leo lived as an expat in Singapore, Taipei, and Shanghai, and then moved to the United States in 2011. Needing to assimilate to various cultures and thereby cultivating an irreverence towards rules and norms from a young age, Leo expresses rootlessness and multiplicity within identities through his music. Leo traces the origins of his fractured identity-formation to colonial legacies that continue to this day. His art is an act of home-making inspired by various musical and ideological movements that have sought to question power dynamics and imagine egalitarian possibilities. His primary methods are improvisation, written text, graphical notation, and electronic processing.
http://www.listentoleo.com/

Shoz is inspired by sound and land, responsive to invitation to listen and still.
Field recordings. found sound. melody. ceremony and prayer, connection to place, ancestor, spirit.
https://bufferzonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/shoz-bind-belong

PraxisCat is the experimental electronic solo project from Christine Paluch. Christine is a DC based composer using synthesizers, code, and other musical instruments to explore the relationship between synesthesia and urban spaces.
https://praxiscat.bandcamp.com/

Jeff Surak continues to remove any resemblance to music from his sound making activities.
https://zeromoon.bandcamp.com/album/an-ideal-death