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Ben Bennett, Michael Foster & Jacob Wick:

Michael Foster: tenor/soprano saxophones Jacob Wick: trumpet Ben Bennett: percussion

Michael Foster is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist utilizing extensive preparations of his saxophone, augmenting it with amplification, objects, balloons, drum heads, vibrators, tapes, and samples as a method of subverting and queering the instrument’s history and traditional roles.

Jacob Wick is an improviser, writer, and artist. His work is dedicated to and informed by queer feelings and queer politics.

As an improviser and trumpet player, he has performed in a variety of contexts, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kennedy Center, and the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC). He has performed with Matana Roberts, Andrea Neumann, Gerald Cleaver, Katherine Young, Judith Hamann, Toshimaru Nakamura, and others.

Ben Bennett is an improvising percussionist who plays drums, membranes, and self-made instruments, which are combined with each other in various mutable arrangements, and played by striking, friction, breath, and other techniques. Although his instrument and music could both be described as unorthodox, they retain the essence of the modern drumset, and are a distillation of diverse musical traditions. He has toured North America and Europe, playing with different groups, ad-hoc collaborations, and solo.

Cecilia Lopez & Joe Moffett:

Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation and the creation of sound devices and systems. Lopez holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College and an MA from Wesleyan University in composition (2016). Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (AR), Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room, Ostrava Days Festival 2011 (Ostrava, Czech Republic), Experimental Intermedia, Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway) and the XIV Cuenca Biennial, among others. In 2019, Lopez curated the intermedia festival Folly Systems co-produced by Roulette Intermedium and Outpost Artists Resources that featured 11 international artists. Collaborators include Carmen Baliero, Aki Onda, Brandon Lopez, John Driscoll, Carrie Schneider, Joe Moffett and Lars Laumann among others. Joe Moffett approaches his work with a keen interest in unconventional sounds and forms, collective improvisation, and the intersection of action and stillness. He is a co-founder of ambient improv trio Earth Tongues with Carlo Costa and Dan Peck and collaborates regularly with artists such as Henry Fraser, Cecilia Lopez, Sam Weinberg, Tania Chen and Zach Rowden, in addition to performing frequently as a solo artist. He has also performed compositions by Cecilia Lopez (Machinic Fantasies, Dos (tres)), Carlo Costa (Strata), Frantz Loriot (Echo from the Frantz Loriot Systematic Distortion Orchestra) and Yoshi Wada (Earth Horns with Electric Drone). His recorded material appears on Neither/Nor, Underwolf, Eh?, NotTwo, Tubapede and Prom Night Records.

Picard & Picard:

Picard & Picard, the Philadelphia-based duo of Carlos Cotallo Solares (guitar, electronics; born in Spain) and Jeffrey Young (violin, electronics; born in NYC), moves between dreamy electro-acoustic soundscapes and harsh, deliberate noise, drawing on their backgrounds as improvisers and composers. Carlos and Jeffrey met in Philadelphia playing in the Arcana Open Sound Workshop, an ongoing project of Bowerbird‘s Arcana New Music Ensemble that served as a space for contemporary classical musicians to explore and develop open score pieces. They began working as a duo in March 2020, just before the start of the coronavirus lockdowns, and their first public concerts were performed over Zoom, with the two musicians calling in from their separate apartments across the city.

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This event made possible by a grant from the Penn Treaty Special Services District