Chris Corsano |Erica Dawn Lyle | Lea Bertucci, Ben Vida, Cleek Schrey| Henry Fraser Quartet
8 PM
$15
CHRIS CORSANO is a New York-based drummer who's been working at the intersections of free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late '90s. He's a rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of "jazz" (Joe McPhee, Mette Rasmussen, Zoh Amba) and "rock" (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O'Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour, Michael Flower, Okkyung Lee). Appearing on over 180 albums and touring in an ultra-wide array of collaborations, he's a renowned solo performer in his own right, with a new solo record due out next year on the Drag City label. He's built a highly inventive musical language through ecstatic free improvisation, extended percussion techniques, and the augmentation of his kit with circular-breathed reeds and bowed strings that coax new resonances out of the drums' heads. Corsano's been called "one of the world's great drummers" by The Guardian, an "ace of the avant-garde" by The New York Times, a "powerhouse drummer" by Rolling Stone, and "arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz" by Wire Magazine.
ERICA DAWN LYLE is a writer, curator, experimental musician, and cultural instigator who lives in New York and Florida. The former touring guitar player for Bikini Kill, as a solo performer, Lyle has released musical collaborations with Kim Gordon, The Raincoats, Bernadette Mayer, Kathleen Hanna, Satomi Matsuzaki, Brontez Purnell, and many more. The author of several books and a contributor to Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, and other publications, her most recent book is The Knight of Cups(Beladonna Press, 2023).
LEA BERTUCCI is an experimental musician, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments, her work incorporates spatialized speaker arrays, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology. In recent years, her projects have expanded toward site-specific and spatially aware projects that initiate new access points to architecture. Her approach to music is marked by dense masses of sustained dissonance and a fascination with the sonic substance of common experience.
BEN VIDA is a composer and artist. In the mid-1990s Vida co-founded the minimalist quartet Town & Country and released solo records under the moniker Bird Show. He has worked with numerous labels including Alku, PAN, Shelter Press and Kranky. Vida teaches in the MFA program in Sonic Arts, Brooklyn College.
HENRY FRASER grew up immersed in music - singing, playing piano and cello, studying theory and ear training. He began playing the double bass at 14, sparking an interest in improvisation via the music of Charles Mingus. Fraser moved to NYC in 2014, and quickly began contributing to an eclectic array of musical projects while remaining grounded in his unique perspective, actively working in the areas of jazz, long-from drone, noise, and spectral music. Much of Fraser’s work is rooted in his music for solo double bass, which features massive aural landscapes that reach beyond the limits of audibility towards a synaesthetic experience of sound. Also a passionate educator, he was recently invited to participate in Carnegie Hall’s Future Music Project as a Teaching Artist - conducting music workshops in ACS facilities with justice-involved and incarcerated youth.
CLEEK SCHREY is a fiddler, improviser, and composer from Virginia. He plays traditional music from Appalachia and Ireland and makes experimental work using composition, film, and field recordings. His work is preoccupied with the physical phenomena of vibrating strings and the histories and aesthetics of recording technologies. He collaborates with experimental composers such as David Behrman and Alvin Lucier and the downtown improviser Shelley Hirsch. Solo appearances include the Big Ears Festival (Knoxville), SuperSense Festival of the Ecstatic (AUS), and the Kilkenny Arts Festival (IE). He is a 2021-2022 Jerome Foundation Artist in Residence at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn.