Thursday May 16 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Recognized in the New Yorker for his “characteristic magnanimity” and his “invaluable contributions to New York’s new-music community," bassist/composer/improviser James Ilgenfritz presents "Almostness" and other new creations for solo contrabass in Just Intonation scordatura with Autonomous Mechanical Instrument Array, from his new album Stay Logged In On This Trusted Device.
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Blurring the limits between speed and slowness, guitarists Meg Duffy and Greg Uhlmann communicate in velocities, underwriting each other’s peaks and flurries as they ache toward a mutual horizon. These one-take improvisations, recorded in Uhlmann’s brothers’ house on a borrowed tape recorder, unfold like a game of truth or dare. Their constant motif is an unceasing return, a steady heartbeat they mutually commit to, knowing when one wanders off, the other will either follow or call them home. Here, flushness overrides order, each note saunters by like initials etched into tree bark: a devotion both passing and eternal.

After playing in Perfume Genius and Hand Habits, Duffy and Uhlmann embarked on their first record together, Doubles. A testament to the wordlessness of their musical intimacy, Duffy and Uhlmann take up the guitar in order to make an imprint of the slowness and presence of their improvisational practice. They weave together a sonic meditation, embracing intuition and relying on trust.

The intimacy in these songs dances like shadows - providing relief even as they slip away. I want to put this music in my pocket and hold it in my palm like a worn down stone. Duffy and Uhlmann give us a sweet rawness that reverberates even once the song is over, hitting the body the very moment words fall away. – Rosie Stockton
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Inverse Square Trio is Shelly Purdy and co - Baltimore - "seeks to demonstrate and illuminate acoustic properties and aural illusions."