Come out for an evening of noise and improv featuring Boueffe (Martin Freeman and T.J. Borden) + Zoots Houston, Beige (Stella Silbert and Liam Kramer-White), and solos by Poacher (Tim Johnson) and Michael Rosenstein.
$5 - $10 donation
Boueffe is the free-improv duo of TJ Borden (cello) and Martin Freeman (electronics). This time out, they’ll be joined by Zoots Houston (clarinet and electronics).
http://boueffe.bandcamp.com/
Martin Freeman is an instrument builder, improvising musician and installation artist from Rochester, NY. His instruments are developed through tinkering and improvisation, leading to happy accidents and unpredictable behaviors that often render the circuits improvisers themselves.
http://mroztronium.blogspot.com/
T.J. Borden is a musician working in and around the constraints of the cello. He is now based in Philadelphia, where he spends much of his time exploring ways to exploit the strengths and failures of himself and his instrument.
http://www.tylerjborden.com
Zoots Houston is an improviser of various sorts. He works primarily with misuse and perversion of objects and systems. Virtuosity, volatility, futility, and capability are thought of. Zoots currently lives, works, and plays in Kingston, NY.
Beige is the Western Mass-based collaborative project of Stella Silbert and Liam Kramer-White. Through improvisation with an array of electroacoustic instruments, Beige explores multilayered relationships between sounds in time.
https://feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/beige
Tim Johnson’s solo project Poacher uses items straight off the workbench – bandsaws, voltage converters, scrap metal – in conjunction with a mic’d turntable to create jarring and powerful collapsed rhythms. Johnson is also an accomplished photographer, hanging work in Easthampton and Providence.
http://uninvitedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/oilgun
Michael Rosenstein develops raw sonic sources, transforming, distressing, and combining them, and feeding off of the unstable sonic results.
https://soundcloud.com/michael-rosenstein/michael-solo-at-the-cannery-penobscot-maine