Sunday March 8 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Peter Evans (trumpet) and Sam Pluta (electronics) have been collaborating since 2008 in a wide variety of contexts. Their work together has spanned small Jazz groups, large wind ensembles, through-composed works by themselves and others, and in educational contexts in the fields of improvisation an electro-acoustic music. Their work together has been featured in the Peter Evans Quintet and Octet, Rocket Science (with Craig Taborn and Evan Parker), Parker's USA Electro-Acoustic Septet, International Contemporary Ensemble and the Wet Ink Ensemble. They have performed at major festivals and venues across Europe, Canada and USA, and have presented their work and ideas at several major colleges and universities.
In the duo format Pluta and Evans use all they have developed from their experience together to forge a new and dynamically interactive music, persistently honing and refining their duo music into a fully formed type of electro-acoustic chamber music. Improvisation and a commitment to the explosive energy of sound itself informs the duo's approach to real time composition.
Their music bridges Evans' efforts to explore new sonic worlds for a traditional acoustic instrument with Pluta's customized and highly flexible software. Their instruments are at some points fused into a unified sonic entity indistinguishable as two voices, while at others engaged in violent counterpoint.
Heather Stebbins is a DC-based composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work explores the porous boundary between memory and emotion. She foregrounds cello, synthesizer, and an array of other electronics, creating music that is imbued with patience, unfolding slowly over the course of multi-movement suites. Her new album, On Separation, was released by Outside Time in May.
Praised by The New York Times for her 'taut and impassioned performance,' pianist Ning Yu emerges as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary music. Ning brings virtuosity and adventurous spirit to a wide range of music, both in solo performances and in collaborations with some of today’s most distinguished creative artists. Ning has closely collaborated with composers Michael Beil, Brigitta Muntendorf, Annea Lockwood, Wang Lu, David Bird, Aaron Einbond, Alec Hall, and Sufjan Stevens amongst others. She has performed with ensembles AMOC, Bang on A Can All- Stars, ICE, Talea Ensemble, Signal Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, counter)induction, and was a long time member of the piano/percussion quartet Yarn/Wire.
Erin Demastes is an experimental composer, performer, and sound artist. She uses everyday objects and hacked electronics for her installations and performances and subverts their use and perception with play and experimentation. By placing items in theatrical settings, Erin brings out the character of things we normally may not think twice about. In addition to her interest in physical materials, Erin works with instruction and interaction design in her scores, performances, and installations by balancing structured composition with improvisation and exploration.
Erin has presented her work at many venues including Coaxial Arts Foundation, Human Resources LA, Betalevel, Soundpedro at Angeles Gate Cultural Center, Center for New Music SF, Navel LA, Good Children Gallery New Orleans, Mills College, UC Santa Cruz, Tulane University, Rice University, University of Texas at Austin, Towson University, and University of South Carolina and has performed at the High Zero Festival, MOCA, Automata, The Feminist Center for Creative Work, Santa Monica Public Library, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and more.