Monday September 19 * 7pm * TICKETS

Ami Yamasaki will be visiting from Japan. Don't miss this rare chance to catch the creator of the famous bathroom feather installation in person! Ami will be performing in an improvised duo setting with DC's Jeff Barsky aka Insect Factory. A full night of improvised duos, in fact....

Ami Yamasaki is a vocalist and cross-media artist from Tokyo. Yamasaki creates installations, performance pieces and directs films. With primal vocals and movement, she explores the possibilities of a deeper understanding towards the mechanism of the world. In 2017 she was invited to New York by Asian Cultural Council as its grantee, in 2018 was invited to the Philippines as Asian Fellow of Asia Center Japan Foundation. She mainly performs in Japan, but has recently staged work in the U.S at “Sounds to Summon the Japanese Gods” at Japan Society in 2016, and in the Philippines “Ephemaral Knots” at VIVA EXCON 2018 CAPIZ Biennale in 2018. Her main solo show have included “Signs of voices” (2016, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto), and group shows include “Tokyo Experimental Festival vol.09 ” (2014, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo), “Exchange-planting a seed” (2013, Aomori Contemporary Art center, Aomori) and “Sonic City 2013 Liquid Architecture” (2013, RMIT, Melbourne). Her work is diverse and prolific; ranging from the collaborations with Keiji Haino, Yasunao Tone, Akira Sakata, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, workshops at The National Museum of Art Osaka, and Arts Maebashi, as well as television and film appearances as a narrator and voice foley for “MORIBITO Ⅱ” (NHK, 2017) . She presented a TEDx talk at TEDxTokyo yz in 2016. amingerz.wixsite.com/ami-yamasaki

Insect Factory is the music of Silver Spring, MD's Jeff Barsky, and is a meditative project focused on creating detailed and atmospheric guitar compositions. New tape/download “Celestial Cycles” just released on Already Dead Tapes & Records in August 2022! “…densely layered loops, planes of static standing tall like a gigantic back-scratcher of audio, improvised melodies clamoring over drones like they’re peaks in a mountain range…monolithic, moving, fluid and entirely lovely.” – Tiny Mix Tapes insectfactory.bandcamp.com/

Weed Tree (Amanda Huron and Layne Garrett) plays improvised music on drums, prepared guitar and homemade instruments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gR_xnL4eVQ

Bad Groupy is an international duo from DC/Hamburg/Tallinn that explores trans-Atlantic improvisation using double bass, voice, tapes, and electronics.

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