Music at Washington St. was a series of experimental and improvised music featuring musicians from around New England as well as visiting musicians from around the world. The series was started in 2012 by Morgan Evans-Weiler and Michael Rosenstein and was later co-curated by Michael Rosenstein and Jesse Kenas Collins. The series ended in April 2023 and is no longer active.
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Boueffe Boueffe is the free-improv duo of TJ Borden (cello) and Martin Freeman (electronics). They have been playing music together in various contexts for fourteen years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtdOxpGip4
Victoria Shen Shen's solo sets completely take over a space, whether playing in Boston's boxiest building, its tallest, and pretty much everything in between. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHkIXLNiJc
Variant State [Duo] Mary Staubitz said about the duo: “Michael Rosenstein and Jesse Collins inadvertently created an improv narrative about being stranded in a swamp, missing the rescue plane, and descending into delirium as they starved to death. Good set.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAWSerhO_iQ&t=375s
MORE ABOUT THE MUSICIANS: Martin Freeman is an instrument builder, improvising musician and installation artist from Rochester, NY. He works predominantly with instruments of his own design and construction. 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. Hailing from Western NY, 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. These explorations have either accrued with the practice of or have been pursued through multiple approaches/styles, including [but not limited to] improvisation, noise, Western art music, drone, and performance art. http://www.tylerjborden.com
Victoria Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Shen’s music floods its location acting as a form of sculpture. Her music features analog modular synthesizers (Flower Electronics), contact microphones, and other hand-built electronics. These instruments are designed to electronically reproduce chaotic systems, systems which are highly sensitive to small changes in their initial parameters. The resulting music eschews conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of the extreme textures and gestural tones. http://www.evicshen.com
Jesse Kenas Collins performs in both solo and group contexts, focusing on the confusion of brass and woodwind instruments integrated with analog electronics and systems of feedback. http://www.jessekenascollins.com
Michael Rosenstein explores the interaction of amplified surfaces, salvaged instruments, and simple oscillators and distressed everyday recordings. http://www.variantstate.com/michael-rosenstein/
