Making Music in Cybernetic America. AN EVENING WITH THEODORE GORDON and musical guests •••••• Stories about new musical instruments are often told as quests for new kinds of sounds. The Composer’s Black Box asks, What happens when new musical instruments produce not only new sounds but also new dynamics of musical agency and control? ••••••••• People who are interested […]
Mariana Carvalho and Zach Hart are a Berlin based duo working in between experimental music, noise, radio and sound art. They will present a new set together, combining binaural mics, transducers, glass, modular synthesizer and a tape deck. Two Weeks is Ben Starkey and Obie Feldi. Together they make music with computers. Jasper Hoffman is […]
9 SONIC CRAFTSPERSONS IMPROVISE WHILE YOU DRINK TO BENEFIT HIGH ZERO Different sets involving THESE musicians in a TAVERN setting. Stop trying to put together a dungeon run and ORDER a bizarre Amaro, a rare Japanese whiskey or an trim German rice beer. Bespoke cock-tails. Delicious non-alchoholic rarities! •••••••• All orders at the bar benefit […]
Two incredible string performers from Georgia and Egypt plus a Takoma Park who reinvents guitar virtuosity. Killick Hinds lives in Athens, Georgia. His music is Appalachian Trance Metal made on unusual stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable rhythms, intuitive intonation, and shamanistic ROYGBIV. The primary sonic influences on Killick are animals, wind, water, fire, electrical hum, and […]
Amazing evening of music bringing together DC’s Alma Laprida’s new project using exclusively subwoofers (w/Bryce Hackford) and the duo Voicehandler (High Zero Alum Danishta Rivero and percussionist Jacob Felix Heule). Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments — the voice and percussion — juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics. The […]
