Beam splitter = Audrey Chen + Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø

Audrey Chen + Henrik Notstebo

AUDREY CHEN is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization… Continue reading Beam splitter = Audrey Chen + Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø

XFest

XFest 2016

Open Field Initiative and 119 Gallery present XFest 2016, a festival of improvised music, visuals and movement.      

Garguad + Gomez + Wright

A trio of: Guillaume Garaud. Guitar + Objects Jack Wright, Saxophone and Jean-Philippe Gomez, Synthesizer Analog + Voice Performed at Pageant: Soloveev Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

A trio of: Guillaume Garaud. Guitar + Objects Jack Wright, Saxophone and Jean-Philippe Gomez, Synthesizer Analog + Voice Performed at Pageant: Soloveev Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.

Fire Museum Presents Audrey Chen + Flandrew Fleisenberg + Margaret Rorison

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: Fursaxa

Fursaxa

Fursaxa is a USA-based acid folk or freak folk project led by Tara Burke of Pennsylvania.. Her home-recordings feature many instruments in addition to her heavily overdubbed vocals on a 4-track recorder. The writings of Medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen, Vladimir Nabokov, and Mircea Eliade have influenced the lyrics and mood of Burke’s work. This… Continue reading Fire Museum Presents: Fursaxa

Franz Hautzinger, Isabelle Duthoit, Gene Coleman and Archer Spade

Franz Hautzinger, Isabelle Duthoit, Gene Coleman & Archer Spade

This set included: Franz Hautzinger on Trumpet Isabelle Duthoit on Clarinet Gene Coleman on Bass Clarinet Nick Millevoi on Electric Guitar and Dan Blacksberg on Trombone

Isabel Duthoit and Franz Hautzinger

Isabel Duthoit and Franz Hautzinger

Trumpeter Franz Hautzinger and vocalist Isabel Duthoit improvised a set of their music for the crowds of Archer Spade Performance Series at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, PA.

superlith, iron dog, james strong & paul christian

is the Philadelphia based experimental duo of: Trombonist Dan Blacksberg (who has performed with Anthony Braxton Quartet and Archer Spade with Nick Millevoi) and Casio keyboard modifier Julius Masri (Electric Simcha, Avant-rock band Lionshead, and the out-improv Keir Neuringer/Julius Masri Duo). Blacksberg works to push the trombone to its limits as an unlikely pair to… Continue reading superlith, iron dog, james strong & paul christian

Anthony Coleman and Ashley Paul

Anthony Coleman and Ashley Paul

Performed a set of their organ/sax duo goodness at Studio 34 in Philadelphia, PA part of the Archer Spade Performance Series. Coleman has been a landmark in the New York Avant-Garde Jazz scene since the 70s. He plays piano, keys, trombone and vocals in a free improvised style. Paul is a Brooklyn based composer and… Continue reading Anthony Coleman and Ashley Paul