Wayward Music Series: Aaron Butler
$5-$15 donation at the door
- Aaron Michael Butler, percussion
Matt Sargent — Selected works (world premiere)
Justin Greene — Selected works (world premiere)
Local experimental percussionist Aaron Michael Butler presents a concert of premieres for resonant metal instruments and electronics by Elizabeth A. Baker, Justin Greene, and Matt Sargent.
Elizabeth A. Baker's new work for vibraphone and electronics utilizes paintings created by the composer in multiple ways: one is amplified to capture the vibraphone’s sound for processing as well as sounds made on it directly, and one is used as a backdrop for projection of a video score that is interpreted by the performer.
Matt Sargent's work explores chime harmonics through spectral analysis and mapping those frequencies onto two octaves of crotales to highlight the internal resonances of the tubular bells.
Justin Greene's work also focuses on chime harmonics, but unlike in Sargent's work, the performer draws them out through manipulation of nodal points along the instruments.
COVID-19 Protocols: For the safety of all present, audience members are required to wear a mask covering nose and mouth.
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
https://www.waywardmusic.org/About Aaron Michael Butler, percussion
Aaron Michael Butler is a percussionist/composer currently based in Athens, OH. He regularly presents concerts of contemporary solo and chamber music, and has been active in the creation of new works through commissioning composers of his generation. Recent performance highlights include the 2013 Athens International Film Festival, 2012/14 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, the 2014 Ohio University World Music and Dance Festival with marimbist Pei-Ching Wu, a performance with Luciano Chessa's Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners in 2015, and the 2016 Nelsonville Music Festival. In 2010 Aaron founded the NOBROW.collective; in conjunction with the Athens International Film Festival NOBROW has commissioned Deep Earth - a large-scale, multimedia work - from composer Matthew Burtner which was premiered in April 2014.
As a composer, he frequently collaborates with artists from other disciplines including choreographers Ani Javian and Travis Gatling, filmmaker Chris Lange, and Bristol-based potter Steve Carter. His recent work includes commissions from Andrew Trachsel and the Ohio University Wind Symphony, percussionist Kyle Lutes, and a choral work for the Cincinnati Soundwebs project.
Aaron holds degrees in percussion performance from Ohio University and Centenary College of Louisiana where he studied with Roger Braun, Guy Remonko and Chan Teague. He is currently adjunct professor of music at Ohio University.
https://www.aaronmichaelbutler.com/