Tuesday July 1 * $15-25 * 7pm * TICKETS
Table of the Elements Relaunch Party No. 3 - DC Edition!
Folk Music
Nate Wooley – trumpet/amplifier
Chris Corsano – percussion/half-clarinet/electronics
Ches Smith – percussion/sampler/electronics
After a decade of conceptually-minded bands such as Mutual Aid Music and knknighgh, trumpeter Nate Wooley put together the trio Folk Music to reconnect with pure improvisation. Asking two of his favorite collaborators, the percussionists Chris Corsano and Ches Smith, to join him with the only rules being flexibility and spontaneity. The result has become an improvising trio capable of whispering sensitivity and huge monoliths of sound.
Nate Wooley (b.1974) was born in Clatskanie, Oregon and began playing trumpet professionally with his father, a big band saxophonist, at the age of thirteen. He made his debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic at the opening series of their 2019 season. Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language.
Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990's. He's been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of "jazz" (Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, 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).
Originally from Sacramento, California, Ches Smith is a drummer, percussionist, and composer based in New York. He has collaborated with a host of artists on many scenes since the early 2000s, including Marc Ribot, Tim Berne, John Zorn, Darius Jones, David Torn, John Tchicai, Nels Cline, Mary Halvorson, Trevor Dunn, Terry Riley, Kris Davis, Dave Holland, Secret Chiefs 3, Xiu Xiu, Good for Cows, Theory of Ruin, and Mr. Bungle, among others.
Weed Tree - Amanda Huron and Layne Garrett have been improvising together for 15 years and counting on drums, prepared guitar, and etc.
Although preparing for its imminent relaunch, tonight Table of the Elements revisits its origins and early support of free-improvisation with a discussion by musicologist and historian Ian Nagoski. Nagoski, founder of acclaimed Canary Records, will introduce a screening of a Table of the Elements short, An E-Ticket Ride in the Six Flags of Sound. Through a kinetic barrage of pop-cultural imagery, this film considers the reverberations of the label's 1992–1993 Guitar Series Vols. I & II. The soundtrack includes work by Derek Bailey, Hans Reichel, Keith Rowe, Davey Williams, Jim O'Rourke, Henry Kaiser, KK Null, Loren Connors, Paul Panhuysen, Keiji Haino, Lee Ranaldo, and Thurston Moore.
As part of the celebration, Table of the Elements will offer select audience members the first-ever digital edition of Guitar Series I & II.
JOIN OUR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tote/table-of-the-elements?ref=1435ya
Table of the Elements 2025: Relaunch of a Visionary Arts Platform
A membership-powered revival of one of experimental music's most radical, influential, and uncompromising publishers.
“Table of the Elements is clearly ahead of the game.” —ARTFORUM
Table of the Elements is a rigorous curatorial network and publishing platform, lauded by Pitchfork as “a national treasure.” More than a record label, we are a member-powered engine that exalts ingenuity, repudiates convention, and inspires agency.
Over the coming months, we are realizing a catalog of over two dozen projects, producing numerous programs for our podcast network, and sponsoring a global series of live events, parties, and installations.
This membership drive is our first stage, and we need your participation to reach the destination. We travel the path together.
Join us. Share a vision. Voice a sound. Stop the clock. Own the moment.
Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tote/table-of-the-elements?ref=1435ya
Website: www.tableoftheelements.co.uk
Contact: info@tableoftheelements.org