Opening musical Harmonishroom ceremony from Sky Macklay, Meg Huskin and Nathaniel Parks!

Jessica Pavone solo set

Closing set from Liz Meredith.

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What Happens Has Become Now is Jessica Pavone’s fifth solo viola album and her fourth for Relative Pitch Records. Over the past twenty years, Pavone has been developing solo music based on the pitches of the open strings intended to accentuate the natural sympathetic resonances of her particularly loud viola. Over the years, she has incorporated and experimented with electronic effects to give herself a “partner” to play with and more texture to her compositions. This album features a track performed on the Sword Viola, one of the artist Ken Butler’s hand-crafted Hybrid Instruments.

Violist and composer, Jessica Pavone, explores the tactile and sensory experience of music as a vibration-based medium. Inspired by processes centered on intuition and instinct, her music channels these ideas by focusing on how music feels when played and heard, integrating her experiences as an instrumentalist into works that transcend time. Although her primary training was in classical music, Pavone has dedicated her practice to exploring alternative avenues for creative musical expression and “has made a career of redefining the possibilities for her instrument” (Steve Smith, National Sawdust Log). Pavone’s music has been premiered at: Abrons Art Center, ISSUE Project Room, the Kitchen, the Noguchi Museum, Pioneer Works, Roulette, and the Socrates Sculpture Park. Grants and Commissions: NYSCA (2024), Queens Arts Council (2024, 2022, 2020), NYFA NYC Women’s Fund (2023), MATA Festival (2023), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Emergency Grant, 2021), New Music USA (2015), Tri-Centric Foundation (2015), Experiments in Opera (2013), and the Jerome Foundation (2011). Residencies and Fellowships: Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize (2024), Marble House (2024), Kimmel Harding Nelson Center (2024), I-Park Foundation, Loghaven (20

“In a furtherance of the sound explored on her 2019 album Repro. (released on s P L e e N C o F F i N), Liz Meredith entwines viola into tape loops and dissolves the distinction between them. Both pieces arrive at a slow heave of texture, rendered rough by faltering tape or the scuff of an adjusted bow, while harmonics whistle atop the primary tones like tiny clusters of pipes.” (Jack Chuter, Hard Return)
https://hardreturn.bandcamp.com/album/repro-ext

Liz Meredith is a violist, improviser and composer from Baltimore, MD. Her music explores intersections between acoustic chamber music, instrumental improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, and ambient music. Liz’s recordings include 3 solo albums, The Disposition of Vibrant Forms, a 5 LP set in collaboration with John Somers, and various solo and collaborative works on cassette. Her most recent solo albums Repro – Ext (Hard Return) & Repro (s P L e e N C o F F i N) have received critical acclaim from publications such as Tiny Mix Tapes, Vital Weekly, ATTN Magazine, and the Sound Projector.  In addition to performing her own music, Liz has premiered new works by emerging composers, and has also contributed her sound to recordings by a wide range of artists.

Liz’s performance record is fittingly diverse.  She has performed at rock clubs, D.I.Y. spaces, art galleries, chamber music venues, music festivals, and academic conferences throughout the United States.  Career highlights include performances at Signal Flow Festival, Mills College; High Zero Festival (Baltimore, MD); several performances at the Baltimore Museum of Art; The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD); and The Stone (New York City, NY).

Liz holds a Bachelor’s Degree in String Performance & Film Music from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) and a Masters of Arts Degree in Music Composition from Mills College (Oakland, CA).  She has studied music composition with Fred Frith and viola performance with Hank Dutt of Kronos Quartet.

Liz is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Event location:

425 E 31st St, Baltimore, MD 21218