poster: Jenny Moon Tucker
Sunday April 13 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-25 * TICKETS
Austin-based percussionist and multi-instrumentalist, Lisa Cameron (aka Venison Whirled), is well-respected in the noise and free-improv scenes, and has played with everyone from Brave Combo (Cameron was a member of the original late ‘70’s lineup) to Roky Erickson, Jandek, and members of Faust and Guru Guru, and she has opened for many others, such as Psychic TV and various incarnations of Hawkwind, plus the bands growing out of the Hawkwind diaspora. She has also been a member of such seminal groups as ST 37, Glass Eye, Three Day Stubble, and other Texas cult-acts. Using amplified/acoustic percussion and strings, she locates resonant frequencies in space to create oscillating overtones, which are then employed as sound sources for live improvisation.
Eli Wallace is a pianist, improviser, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, NY, leading his own projects, and collaborating with other like-minded artists. His work as a pianist displays a proclivity to free improvisation, incorporating elaborate piano preparations that John Lewis (The Guardian) says is "...pushing the boundaries of the prepared piano." His compositions employ notational strategies to broaden how musicians produce sound and the ways in which they interact. Over the past decade, he appeared on dozens of albums and performed at venues such as The Stone, New York, NY, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, and Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL.
2025 Shasha Chen Concert Series: fe-[mute(male)] – an investigation on violence toward women - Chapter Two: fe-mute(male)
Shasha Chen: piano, percussions, found objects
Chao Tian: Chinese dulcimer, sibao
1. Premier of "fe-mute(male)" - for female performers, piano, electronics, and needles — This work perceives and uses the interior of the piano as a metaphor for the uterus, extending outward from the performer's own body, in other words, the performer’s body could also be seen as part of the “organic piano”. It is composed in the way of using her pulse rate (speed), breath (voice), hands (keyboard), “womb” (inside piano), and legs (pedals), to constantly interact, contrast, and transform between muted and resonated sounds, representing the female body as the ultimate battlefield—a producer and social resonator, inherently marked by violence, oppression, and trauma—while exposing the surrogacy industry's exploitation of women through systemic external violence (needles).
2. Premier of "women, wǒ men" - for Chinese dulcimer, percussion, found objects and voice — In Chinese pronunciation, "wǒ men" means "we." We are women, women are us. This is a beautiful coincidence. I want to use both musicians' voice and instruments, speaking, singing and improvising with selected contemporary Chinese feminist poems.
Nectar Gnome is Jenny Moon Tucker and Meg Ragan. An exploration and experiment in weaving sound through the realms. Saxophone, strings, tones and percussive textures sourced though a variety of mysterious objects, build ecstatic stories. Through play they will coax voices out of the aether. Based in Stevenson, MD they help facilitate Changing Ferns Farm, a space for growing food, medicine and healing. Jenny Moon Tucker has their roots in the DC/Baltimore experimental music worlds, collaborating with a wellspring of beautiful sound technicians, and has performed at High Zero and DC’s Sound Scene.