* Humble Acts before Berbere

3 acts each from their own corners of the platter, you are the injera, soaking up our fats and spices as a totality. Abstract Non-idiom, chamber improvisation and noise!!

$15 Notaflof

ElkaBong + Tracy Lisk

Walter Wright, 

Al Margolis

Tracy Lisk- percussion 

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A chamber group that plays improvsations rooted in many idioms but freely moving between them. Each of the musicians has a strong basis in romantic  and 20th century classical music, but all are enmeshed in delightfully unhinged spiritually-fueled transgressive spontaneous composition. This is the first meeting of this group. 

Will Fredendall- Flute 

Melinda Rice- Viola/Violin

Sonali Singh- Bassoon, Voice, Guitar

Aaron Pond- Horn, Voice, Percussion, Flutes

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Gladys Nobriga- Electronics

BIOS

LISK + ELKA BONG

Tracy Lisk,  (drums) is a percussionist based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Ms.  Lisk’s history as a painter informs the substance of her improvisations  which contain references to rhythmic structures while maintaining a  fluid, suspended continuity. She has lead percussion ensembles, and  regularly tours as a drummer in the US and Europe. She has collaborated  with Mia Zabelka, William Parker, saxophonist Gary Hassay, Maggie  Nicols, renown electronics/voice powerhouse Andrea Pensado, dancer Ryuzo  Fukuhara, and cellist Helena Espval among others.

https://youtu.be/5wJJAIsHmrk Tracy Lisk/Mia Zabelka/Panny Brown

https://youtu.be/XZq0BA2c1t0 Tracy Lisk/Susanna Ferrar/Maggie Nicols/Sylvia Hallett

https://youtu.be/r-PaRCbqsfY Tracy Lisk/Ryuzo Fukuhara

ELKA BONG

Al  Margolis, (clarinet, violin, objects, contact mics) “...is some sort of  evil genius working with sources radically altered up to an utterly  unrecognisable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact  determination” - Massimo Ricci. Al has performed and recorded under the  name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between fairly  spontaneous studio constructions

and more process-oriented composition. He is known as an activist of  the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette label Sound  of Pig Music, and is the co-founder of experimental music label Pogus  Productions. Margolis is label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records,  and Mutable Music; played bass guitar in the legendary punk/post-punk  band Styrenes. He has recorded and/or performed with Pauline Oliveros,  Ione, Joan Osborne, Monique Buzzarté, Phil Niblock, Katherine  Liberovskaya, Adam Bohman, Ellen Christi, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Jane  Scarpantoni, Ulrich Krieger, David First, and Dave Prescott, among  others.

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/al-margolis/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTollHnDiJo

Walter  Wright, (Board Weevil, video) is an interdisciplinary artist, his  practice includes computer programming, music, and video performance.  His focus is on “improvisation as a way of being

present  in the world”. As artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television  Center, he pioneered video performance touring public access centers,  colleges, and galleries with the Paik/Abe Video Synthesizer.

https://www.experimentalintermedia.org/concerts/20/ Walter3.20.shtml

https://elkabong2.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKNfIlgqF3U