An improvising trio for guitar, trombone, percussion, and more. Philly-based drummer, composer/improviser, and multidisciplinary artist Mikel Patrick Avery opens solo.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.
Che met Bex through Peter, who he heard singing beautifully (in octaves) on a tune called “What’s Not Enough About That” by Bex’s xylophone driven post-punk band Vula Viel. Guitar. Trombone. Bex’s homemade mallet percussion and other instruments they’ve found or made out of garden hose, bicycle frame tubing, metal strapping and the idea of bamboo. Spontaneous Music: They donk in a key and its modes, welcome noise, play inside this relational shape and others. Borders are demanding papers but Bex’s visa cleared! She had a tongue drum shipped to Staten Island instead of Berlin. Fish and birds are citizens of somewhere bigger.
This trio brings three unique voices, in the sympathetic tangle of group improvisation. Best known for his ecstatic, modal guitar sound in the group 75 Dollar Bill, Che Chen has been a player and show organizer in New York City’s musical underground since the early 2000s, taking an idiosyncratic path from song-noise duo True Primes to studying guitar in Mauritania to improvising with upstarts and veterans from the global creative music scene. Composer/trombonist Peter Zummo’s inimitable tone and “minimalism plus a whole lot more” approach has its roots in a storied era of NYC history via his deep association with downtown/nightlife luminary Arthur Russell, mixed media productions with choreographer Trisha Brown and visual artist Nancy Graves and a veritable who’s who of New York Avant-garde history. Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, instrument maker and improviser who emphasises space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterise an ongoing approach she describes as “messy minimalism.” Burch’s critically acclaimed 2023 solo album, There is only love and fear was released via Chicago’s International Anthem and named The Guardian’s Contemporary Album of the Month. She runs the label, Vula Viel Records, the domestic music event, Kantine Musik, and has collaborated with influential artists including Thomas Sekgura, Leafcutter John as part of ‘Boing!’, Tamar Osborn and Danalogue in ‘Flock’, Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ben LaMar Gay, Dan Bitney and Macie Stewart.
Mikel Patrick Avery is a multidisciplinary artist, drummer, modern pedal and electronic instrument innovator, photographer, and filmmaker well known for his role as drummer in Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society.
An improvising trio for guitar, trombone, percussion, and more. Philly-based drummer, composer/improviser, and multidisciplinary artist Mikel Patrick Avery opens solo.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing. Watch below or on YouTube.
Che met Bex through Peter, who he heard singing beautifully (in octaves) on a tune called “What’s Not Enough About That” by Bex’s xylophone driven post-punk band Vula Viel. Guitar. Trombone. Bex’s homemade mallet percussion and other instruments they’ve found or made out of garden hose, bicycle frame tubing, metal strapping and the idea of bamboo. Spontaneous Music: They donk in a key and its modes, welcome noise, play inside this relational shape and others. Borders are demanding papers but Bex’s visa cleared! She had a tongue drum shipped to Staten Island instead of Berlin. Fish and birds are citizens of somewhere bigger.
This trio brings three unique voices, in the sympathetic tangle of group improvisation. Best known for his ecstatic, modal guitar sound in the group 75 Dollar Bill, Che Chen has been a player and show organizer in New York City’s musical underground since the early 2000s, taking an idiosyncratic path from song-noise duo True Primes to studying guitar in Mauritania to improvising with upstarts and veterans from the global creative music scene. Composer/trombonist Peter Zummo’s inimitable tone and “minimalism plus a whole lot more” approach has its roots in a storied era of NYC history via his deep association with downtown/nightlife luminary Arthur Russell, mixed media productions with choreographer Trisha Brown and visual artist Nancy Graves and a veritable who’s who of New York Avant-garde history. Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, instrument maker and improviser who emphasises space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterise an ongoing approach she describes as “messy minimalism.” Burch’s critically acclaimed 2023 solo album, There is only love and fear was released via Chicago’s International Anthem and named The Guardian’s Contemporary Album of the Month. She runs the label, Vula Viel Records, the domestic music event, Kantine Musik, and has collaborated with influential artists including Thomas Sekgura, Leafcutter John as part of ‘Boing!’, Tamar Osborn and Danalogue in ‘Flock’, Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ben LaMar Gay, Dan Bitney and Macie Stewart.
Mikel Patrick Avery is a multidisciplinary artist, drummer, modern pedal and electronic instrument innovator, photographer, and filmmaker well known for his role as drummer in Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society.
