Wayward Music Series: Carl Stone + Millis/Abramson/Jones + Broken Crow
$5-$20 donation at the door
A wide-ranging evening of experimental and improvised music in a variety of settings: compositions for computer by Carl Stone; talking machines/tapes/percussion/lap steel from the improvisational trio of Robert Millis, Dave Abramson and AF Jones; and spectral acoustic drone by Portland’s Broken Crow.
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 Carl Stone
A pioneer of live computer music, Carl Stone has been hailed by the Village Voice as "the king of sampling" and "one of the best composers living in (the USA) today." He studied composition at CalArts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. Recordings of his music have been released on New Albion, CBS Sony, Toshiba-EMI, EAM Discs, Wizard Records, Trigram, t:me recordings, New Tone/Robi Droli, Unseen Worlds and various other labels. A winner of numerous awards for his compositions, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Foundation for Performance Arts he has toured all over the world and is based in Japan.
https://www.rlsto.net/Nooz/who-carl/About Robert Millis
Robert Millis is known for many things – co-founder of Climax Golden Twins, Messenger Girls Trio, Idol Ko Si, and AFCGT; filmmaker and producer for the Sublime Frequencies label; co-producer of the Victrola Favorites book and cassette series (other collections include the Deben Bhattacharya: Men and Music on the Desert Road and Indian Talking Machine books). His scholarship into the hidden corners of music across the world has also earned him Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships. His most recent LP, 2020's 'Related Ephemera', was on the Helen Scarsdale label and explored the textures of 78rpm and wax cylinder recordings.
https://robertmillis.net/About AF Jones
AF Jones is a composer, and sound designer, improvising with lap steel, guitar and electronics. Recent sound design work includes the acclaimed What Is Man and What Is Guitar?: Keith Rowe. He runs the Laminal mastering studio and curates the Marginal Frequency performance series and record label.
https://www.af-jones.com/About Broken Crow
Broken Crow is the trio of Caspar Sonnet (lap steel, pump organ), Joel Nelson (crank synth), and Sam Klapper (violin). Drawing from a contemporary take on acoustic folk/drone music, the trio settles into arched landscapes of spectral sound, using extended/prepared techniques and altered tunings to blend interdependent vestiges of vaguely familiar timbre, texture, and noise.