Bill Nace is one of the premiere avant-garde guitarists active today. He has one of the most personal and unique pallets of sound ever to be culled from an electric guitar. Nace creates a distinct, mind-bending cacophony and focuses his textures with intense precision and control. He works under various guises (Body/Head with Kim Gordon,… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Bill Nace + Steve Baczkowski
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Fire Museum Presents: Jake Meginsky
JAKE MEGINSKY (percussion/electronics) has collaborated and performed with such artists as Milford Graves, Alvin Lucier, Joan Labarbara, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings, Joe McPhee, Thurston Moore, William Parker, John Blum, Daniel Carter, Paul Flaherty, Arthur Brooks, Bill Nace, and John Truscinski. HUCK magazine describes his work as “constantly transgressing the boundaries between acoustic and… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Jake Meginsky
Fire Museum Presents: AKNKVN
aknkvn is a duo based in Tokyo and has been performing free improv and noise in tandem since 2009. Akihiko Akkun Ando is an alto saxophonist born in Chiba, Japan in 1986. Since moving to Tokyo in 2001, he has been an active member of underground music scenes in both Tokyo and Kansai in western… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: AKNKVN
Fire Museum Presents: Lead Pipe
Lead Pipe is sound artists Stephanie Bonham & Paul Irvin Brinkley. Stephanie moved to Philadelphia from Austin in 2013. Her soundscapes incorporate field recordings, drones, infinite loops, synthesizers, effects pedals, drum machines and distorted vocals. She is joined by longtime collaborator Paul Irvin Brinkley , manipulating radio and records. Brinkley played bass synth with Lead… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Lead Pipe
Fire Museum Presents: Jooklo Duo + Brandon Lopez + Keir Neuringer
Jooklo Duo is the Italian duo of Virginia Genta and David Vanzan. The duo performed a set of their improvisational music for the ecstatic “Fire Museum Presents” crowd at House Gallery 1816 in Fishtown. The set included the following musicians: Virginia Genta: tenor and soprano sax, clarinet David Vanzan: drums Brandon Lopez: bass and Keir… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Jooklo Duo + Brandon Lopez + Keir Neuringer
Fire Museum Presents: Helena Espvall + Bardo Pond
Helena Espvall started to play electric guitar as a bored teenager in northern Sweden, and went on to take cello lessons and was never bored again. After having played in rock bands, a silent movie orchestra, an Arabian ensemble and being inspired to play free improvised music by a shocking Eugene Chadbourne performance, she moved… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Helena Espvall + Bardo Pond
Fire Museum Presents Audrey Chen + Flandrew Fleisenberg + Margaret Rorison
Fire Museum Presents the Audrey Chen, Flandrew Fleisenberg and Margaret Rorison trio. Audrey Chen has been trying to defy conventions all along first by choosing music as a career in a family of material scientists and then by moving away from classical and conservatory music to start her negotiations with sound & discover a more… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents Audrey Chen + Flandrew Fleisenberg + Margaret Rorison
Fire Museum Presents: Nick Millevoi’s Bug Out! Quintet
The Nick Millevoi of Many Arms, Deveykus, The Archer Spade Music Series and many more musical projects debuted his latest and greatest brainchild: The Nick Millevoi Bug Out! Quintet. Explorers of free improv jazz, the Quintet is: Nick Millevoi, guitar Dan Blacksberg, trombone Julius Masri, circuit bent electronics Pete McRae, bass Ricardo Lagomasino, drum
Fire Museum Presents: Steve Baczkowski + Bill Nace
Multi-wind instrumentalist Steve Baczkowski lives in Buffalo, NY where he works as a conduit for creative music of any & every sort. Baczkowski began playing alto saxophone at age eight, switched to baritone by the time he was twelve, and has since developed a wide array of woodwind styles & formidable breathing techniques. In addition… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Steve Baczkowski + Bill Nace
Shh! Shh! Flandrew Fleisenberg
Flandrew Fleisenberg plays percussion on an assortment of everyday ephemera and modified drum parts that he has reduced and eroded through a process of playing and breaking. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with a focus on conceptual art, he is musically self-taught and has developed a cadre of… Continue reading Shh! Shh! Flandrew Fleisenberg