poster by Emily Vaughan Brown
Sunday February 11 * 7pm * TICKETS
Atmospheric Music Sound Sculptor and Experimental Music Artist, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is a free jazz bass player, ambient music noise artist and improvisational avant garde jazz musician currently working on a Vegan Friendly, Ambient Electronic Music Powered Multi-Dimensional Space Ship. If you could hear a Kandinsky, Dali or an Alex Gray painting, that would be the vibe. Current obsessions are Chapman Stick, ambisonic mixing, nft music crypto art, completing an avant garde music opera called #blacbuc and working on multiple progressive music endeavors with a variety of talented experimental musicians from around the world.
One of the world’s premiere exponents of her instrument, Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country music. Having first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands, she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of 20th century classical music, visionary jazz, and world musics. Though known for her solo work, she has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Eugene Chadbourne, Chris Cutler, the London Improvisers Orchestra, the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock and Leila Bourdreuil, George Burt, Evan Parker, Michael Formanek, Zane Campbell, and Mary Halvorson among others. In 2017, she received the Baker Artist Award and in 2018, along with saxophonist Joe McPhee, the Instant Award in Improvised Music.
Sam Pluta is a composer, electronics performer, and sound artist. Though his work has a wide breadth, his central focus is on using the computer as a performance instrument capable of sharing the stage with groups ranging from new music ensembles to world-class improvisers. By creating musical systems of shared agency, Pluta’s vibrant sonic universe focuses on the visceral interaction of instrumental performers with reactive computerized sound worlds. He has performed with Wet Ink Ensemble, Peter Evans Ensemble, Rocket Science, and Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble.
Adam Kantz is an improviser, composer, and creative coder currently based on the east coast of the United States. His work is rooted in the spirit of musical experimentation across a wide range of modern musical practices. He is committed to the practice of musical improvisation as both a performative and compositional tool, and works with an ever-expanding group of musicians and composers in the creation of new music.