Tuesday December 1 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Eli Wallace, Kyle Motl, and Nick Neuburg began playing as a trio in 2023 based on a mutual interest in finding new and personalized approaches within the piano/bass/drums trio format. All three members of the group have dedicated a considerable amount of their individual musical practice to developing new sonic vocabulary on their instruments, while working across varied musical and improvisational contexts. Utilizing the collective contributions of each musician, the trio traverses the outer reaches of timbre, rhythm, and harmony freely while establishing a clear group aesthetic. Their first record as a trio, Enantiodromias, was released by Fundacja Słuchaj Records in Fall 2026.
Eli Wallace is a pianist, improviser, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, NY, where he envisions his own projects and collaborates with like-minded artists. His work as a pianist displays a proclivity for non-idiomatic free improvisation, incorporating vast and elaborate piano preparations that John Lewis (The Guardian) describes as "...pushing the boundaries of the prepared piano." His compositions employ conceptual and notational strategies to broaden the ways in which musicians produce sound and interact with one another. Over the past decade, he appeared on countless albums and performed at venues such as Roulette (Brooklyn, NY), Bemis Center (Omaha, NE), Mizzou International Composers Festival (Columbia, MO), Echoraum (Vienna, Austria), and Cave 12 (Geneva, Switzerland). Additionally, he continues to tour worldwide, performing solo and with established ensembles, and teaming up with musicians from around the globe. His sophomore solo piano album, Peregrine, is scheduled for release by Protomaterial Records in November, 2026.
Kyle Motl is a “spectacularly adventurous and dynamic” bassist and improviser whose playing is noted for both “iridescent delicacy as well as abrasive force” (The Wire). His solo performances “promise to change us by revealing things we could never have imagined” (Free Jazz Collective). His music has been praised for its “speculative, many-layered evolution of imagination,” (Free Jazz Collective) and for “constantly confounding expectation” (Jazz da Gama). Kyle makes music in collaborative projects with musicians including Anthony Davis, Kjell Nordeson, Anqi Liu, Dan Clucas, Nathan Hubbard, Niloufar Shiri, Davu Seru, Milo Fine, Eli Wallace, Nick Neuburg, and Earl Howard. Kyle is Assistant Professor of double bass and contemporary performance at University of Minnesota. He holds a DMA from UC San Diego, where he studied with Mark Dresser and Anthony Davis. Motl is a recipient of the 2026 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Musicians administered by MacPhail Center for Music.
Nick Neuburg is a drummer/percussionist, originally from the greater Ft. Lauderdale, Florida area and now lives in Brooklyn, NY by way of Boston, Massachusetts. Nick devotes a significant amount of focus to solo percussion performance, practice, and recording and has two solo records out: “Cryptic Exaltations” (1039 Records, 2023) and “For 1 and 2 Surfaces” (Empty Stage Records, 2025). Nick is an active participant in the improvised music community in NYC and collaborates regularly with improvisers such as Brittany Karlson, Eli Wallace, Drew Wesely, Kyle Motl, Sam Newsome, and Evan Palmer among many others.
opening set by John Pablo Rojas