Wayward Music Series: Aaron Michael Butler + Matt Sargent
$10-$20 donation at the door
- Aaron Michael Butler, percussion
- Matt Sargent, guitar
Matt Sargent — Bell Arcs (world premiere; Aaron Michael Butler, percussion)
Matt Sargent — Fifth Illumination (Matt Sargent, electric guitar & electronics)
Local percussionist and composer Aaron Michael Butler premieres two new works for solo percussion by composers Matt Sargent and Anthony Donofrio.
Donofrio's Until Then plays with narrative by interweaving six musical "stories" – related through texture, timbre, and/or musical material – in a non-linear arc that explores the effects that duration can have on memory and meaning.
Of Bell Arcs, Sargent says:
"Bell Arcs is a book of patterns, composed for Aaron Michael Butler. The piece began its life as a few pages of non-repeating, simple-yet-strange patterns that lived in the back of one of my notebooks for several years. When Aaron asked about a new piece and mentioned his instrument collection (including a collection of unusual orchestral chimes), the purpose for these patterns as a compositional idea suddenly came into focus. Each of the movements of Bell Arcs present the performer with questions of notation, physicality, and improvisation. The music is constructed throughout with slowly phasing/orbiting patterns, which reveal new variations with every pass. I hope that the listener feels drawn to dwell and meditate within this environment of ringing metal."
Matt Sargent will also perform his Fifth Illumination for solo electric guitar and electronics.
Please join us for an evening of delicate, meditative experimentalism. Listeners are encouraged to bring yoga mats, blankets, etc. to enjoy the evening if they wish. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please note that our building's only elevator is still out of service, so the only way to access the Chapel is via a couple flights of stairs. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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/