Thalia Zedek has one of the most enduring and distinctive voices in modern rock music — a voice like no other — that can be heard in her work with some of the most groundbreaking underground bands, from Uzi and Live Skull to Come. Since 2001, Zedek has been making music under her own name, releasing a string of critically acclaimed albums including her latest release, Eve.

Insect Factory focuses on texture and mood, building layers of dense sounds that slowly evolve into hypnotic and atmospheric drones.

Hothead is Laurie Spector (Gauche, Dudes, Foul Swoops) conjuring dreamworld arena stage swagger and spacious introspection in equal measure.

Nice Breeze is a veteran three-piece from Washington, DC who stir up lo-fi, surf-tinged punk cuts that weave droning hooks with laconic, off-the-cuff vocals.

Maple House Collective presents...

75 Dollar Bill's core of Che Chen's quarter-tone guitar buzz and Rick Brown's inimitable wooden box brings an expanded lineup with Steve Maing on 2nd guitar and Sue Garner on bass to Rhizome's friendly confines on a holiday afternoon/evening to close out the summer! As part of his week-long residency at Rhizome, the ever-inventive Ben Bennett performs extraordinary music on outsider instruments. Abstract Human is Maya Miller and Michael Bernstein's new group. After Double Leopards and Religious Knives they have spent their 5 year hiatus listening to mostly early 60s jazz and modern R&B. Come dig the result.

Seth Chrisman is a musician based in the Hudson Valley, New York. Extended techniques, location recordings, and radio receptions are woven together to create undulating sonic environments.

Hudson, NY resident Nathan McLaughlin explores sound with a focus on the stringed instruments and reel to reel. He views the reel to reel not just a source of effect and texture, but as its own instrument. Focusing on the sounds of acoustic instruments as a companion to the reel to reel, studies are carried out on the philosophical idea of going to the center.

Insect Factory focuses on texture and mood, building layers of dense sounds that slowly evolve into hypnotic and atmospheric drones.

Literals: A sonic experiment in drone, doom, and minimalism by Rebecca Mills and Matt Cohen.

Ingrown Records presents 6 bands featured on its label in a summer showcase concert at RhizomeDC:

Lineup:
Bong Rodent (VA) 
ROBE (MD)
The Big Drum in the Sky Religion (VA)
Opal Wood (MD)
Nagual (VA)
Plake 64 + The Hexagrams (MD)

Lead Bubbles is an improvising trio out of the New England Conservatory in Boston comprised of Sarah Hughes on alto saxophone, Jeff Cox on trumpet, and Andres Abenante on guitars. The group blends free improvisation and noise with a cinematic sensibility and occasional bits of performance art.
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.

Dura - Ambient Primative \\\ Space /// Drone \\\ Waves ///

Janet- noise burlesque

Bliss Stains - apocalyptic summer time ministry

Guitarist/vocalist Jean-Paul Bourelly’s musical output spawns a diverse array of variations of funky otherness. Often fiery solo exchanges, harmonic textures, and sound constellations, characterized by a spontaneous flow of rhythmic energy. His music is informed by the migrant community of Haiti and the southern culture of Chicago's south side that he grew up in.

Raised in a blend of Haitian meringue, folkloric, and the hard-edged urban blues of Chicago's South Side. Howlin' Wolf, Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana, were all inspirations. At the age of 18, he studied with the great alto saxophonist and educator Bunky Green. During his early years, Bourelly worked with notable jazz figures like Elvin Jones, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roy Haynes and recorded with Miles Davis, and later collaborated with genre-crossing musicians like Olu Dara, Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson, and jazz legends Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. Moving to Berlin allowed Bourelly a further focus on his very original “Afro/fusion” sound. Tonight, Bourelly will be joined in this too rare stateside area performance by: Charles Woods: reeds / Tom Teasley: drums / Sub-Z: voice/words / Thomas Stanley: sounds/efx.

Keir Neuringer is a saxophonist and composer whose work is underpinned by interdisciplinary approaches and socio-political contextualizations. He is best known for a personal and intensely physical saxophone technique, revealed through long form solo improvisation...

James Brandon Lewis (saxophone) Trio featuring Luke Stewart (bass) and Warren Trae Crudup III (drums). "Tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis delivers a taut, street-smart set, rooted firmly in hip-hop ancestry yet crafted to honor the tenets of inspired jazz improvisation. Lewis segues effortlessly from rich melodicism to caustic split tones and multiphonics; his lines are challenging, sometimes audacious, but focused and well honed. As the AACM would put it, this is “Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future,” and these musicians purvey it with integrity, grace and spirit." -Jazz Times

Over the last 25 years, Ayman Fanous has forged a singular synthesis of classical and flamenco guitar technique with contemporary free improvisation. His music has been described as a “stylistic amalgam of Derek Bailey and Paco de Lucia” (Signal to Noise).

CK Barlow has always been fascinated with field recordings (and mangling thereof) and attempts to bring some of the energy of a rocknroll show to her experimental electronics performances via an emphasis on physicality, risk, and a clear association between cause and effect.

C Joynes is one of the UK’s most inventive and highly regarded solo guitarists. Over the last 10 years he has recorded a string of acclaimed albums exploring the fault-lines between traditional music, field-recordings from around the world, free improv and lo-fi experimentalism.

Guitarist and poet Max Ochs turned 75 years a few months back and for 55 of those years he has been playing and recording music. Ochs contributed two tracks for the 1967 CONTEMPORARY GUITAR on John Fahey’s Takoma label. Ochs also performed with the legendary band, Seventh Sons, founded by Greenwich Village mainstay and early folk innovator Buzzy Linhart.  Returning to the DC/Annapolis area, he has continued recording and performing, releasing multiple records on Joe Bussard’s Fonotone label and the Tompkins Square label IMAGINATIONAL ANTHEM.

DYR FASER: Dark, winding, and krauty. Electronic, phased-out beats wind and pulsate underneath gorgeous guitar and synth lines.

INSECT FACTORY: How could a guitar sound like radio static, hurricanes, blizzards, cicada swarms, anything at all but a guitar?

SANSYOU weaves atmospheric guitar textures into songcycles and tonepoems.

a night of electronic and improvised music:

Jimmy Joe Roche (modular electronics, voice) + Layne Garrett (modified guitar & objects)
Heejin Jang (max/msp)
Tom Boram (solo modular electronics)

Skip supper. Or rather, bring yr supper. This one starts with a potluck and performance(s) in the Shnth room, followed by music/dance performance and discussion with Asimina Chremos and participants from her afternoon workshop.

Maple House Collective presents a diverse night of creative and improvised music at Rhizome--

Maple House Collective presents...

Snake Union - Chuck Bettis and Dave Grant - rhythmic improvisational explorations between analog synths and digital, modular and max. The sequenced collides with the freeform....

Hatchers - Michael Barker - modified and homemade instruments, drum machine, and modular synth; and Brian Osborne - stripped down drum kit augmented by tapes, contact mics, bells and gongs.....

Sunn :):):) - ritualistic witch noise queer performance improv etc.

Maple House Collective presents a night of sound, visuals, and movement at Rhizome...

Join us for an evening of experimental performance across the spectrum. Music, poetry, performance art, and the intersections of all of the above.

The next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring world-class artists from near and far.

The next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring world-class artists from near and far.

I am synthetic life form “Yoko K.,” assembled in the US with components made in Japan.  I am designed to assume the role of an “electronic musician.”  We, Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities, are sent to this time to plant magical thinking in people through the use of “pre-22nd century nostalgia Mars pop music.” 

First concert in the new space!
David Grollman and Sam Weinberg from New York, Jenny Moon Tucker and Pony Payroll Bones from Baltimore, music to wake the senses......

RhizomeDC and Back Alley Theater present the next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvising musicians.

The next in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring pre-show workshops with world-class improvisers.

The first in a series of concerts of experimental and improvised music featuring a pre-show workshop with world-class improvisers.