Breakfast? is a trio consisting of tenor saxophone, electric guitar and drumset based in Philadelphia and Brooklyn. Their music is a blend of semi-composed, semi-improvised newness; they exemplify a distinct and singular group aesthetic and musical vocabulary. They employ and enjoy the use of pulse (both abstracted and real), references to tonality and form to…

NOISE TOURISM Perhaps it ís serendipity, but maybe the level of excitement over the last several years has gotten out, and our city is finally a must stop on any east coast tour itinerary. Either way, we are thrilled that two separate tours, John Wiese (solo) and The New Monuments, have converged on Philly for…

JEFFERY ALLPORT percussion GREG REYNOLDS saxophone BONNIE JONES circuit bending Vancover - NYC - Baltimore Gregory Reynolds is a musician whose drive to investigate and explore the dynamics of modern sound making has shaped his unique identity as a performer, composer, listener, and thinker. At the root of his practice is an attempt to present…

The Jack Quartet performs IANNIS XENAKIS : ST/4 and JOHN ZORN : Cat O'Nine Tails JACK QUARTET John Pickford Richards, viola Ari Streisfeld, violin Christopher Otto, violin Kevin McFarland, cello Praised for its powerhouse playing by the Chicago Sun-Times, the JACK Quartetmaintains a steady appetite for today's most demanding string quartet repertoire. Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and…

Join Bowerbird for an evening of improvised experimental music featuring a Philadelphia premiere and only the second-ever duo performance from two linchpins of the Philadelphia scene. The three-state-spanning trio of Bowerbird favorites Newton Armstrong (from Dartmouth, NH, originally Australia), Tim Feeney (Ithaca, NY), and Nate Wooley (Jersey City) appears for the first time as a…

ARAM SHELTON'S   ARRIVE  (Chicago, IL) DAN BLACKSBERG'S   SYNTHESIS MUSIC MATT DAVIS   SOLO The quartet of Aram Shelton, Jason Adasiewicz, Jason Roebke and Tim Daisy. Arrive features Shelton on alto saxophone, Adasiewicz on vibraphone, Roebke on bass and Daisy on drums. All four are active players in the modern international creative music world, with Tim Daisy…

Although civilization's oldest instruments were percussion, the full investigation of its potential as generators of non-rhythmic textures is a more recent phenomenon. The Japanese-born and Pennsylvania-resident Tatsuya Nakatani, among today's most exciting performers, has distinguished himself as a constant leader in innovative approaches to percussion. Often surrounded by a battery of gongs, cymbals, bells, and…

Films and live performances by Atsushi Yamamoto, Christian Schneider, Delgado Fuchs, Hammes, Zende, Helena Gough, Pe Lang, Richard Garet, and Zimoun co-presented with GATE Join us for an evening of experimental video and sound performances featuring a survey of work from of European, Asian, and American artists of the Leerraum network. In a world clamoring…

When you get down to it, the whole project is basically one big orchestrated fuck-up. Davey Harms on Mincemeat or Tenspeed. Come one. Come all It's time to lay out your accident-prone self in front of the masses for the purposes of celebratory jubilation in honor of the Marvelous 5th. And since that's  the place…

Music at the intersection of sound, language, and yes, even bodily functions. Performances and perspectives by Bernhard Gal  (Austria), id m theft (Maine, USA) and Steve Parker (Philadelphia, USA). Even in an age of massive technological advances, the power of spoken word remains an unparalleled means of communication. In the years of presidential elections, the rhetoric and speeches…

We are extremely excited to present the amazing free jazz duo of Paul Flaherty and Randall Colbourne. They have been playing together for over 20 years and have over 15 releases together, but this is only their first tour. Alto and tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty is New England's purveyor of the ecstatic jazz pulse. Even…

Slought Foundation and Soundfield NFP are pleased to announce an evening of new and experimental music featuring Vienna/London-based ensemble Polwechsel on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 from 8:00-9:30pm. Polwechsel features Werner Dafeldecker (double bass), Martin Brandlmayr (percussion), Michael Moser (cello, electronics), and Burkhard Beins (percussion). They will be performing new compositions as well as selections from…

Brooke Sietinsons (projections), Mary Lattimore (harp), Michael Barker (electronics, processing, homemade instruments) Much of the work of Jozef van Wissem is based on the application of mirror images to lute composition. The work is idiomatic to lute tablature of around AD 1600. Through study in New York City with Patrick O'Brien, he discovered that from…

Slought Foundation and Soundfield NFP are pleased to announce an evening of new and experimental music with Hamburg based composer Michael Maierhof, played by Philadelphia's Ensemble Noamnesia. After years of work in relative isolation, composer Michael Maierhof has gained great recognition recently as one of the most important new voices in contemporary music. Working mostly…

Phill Niblock (b. 1933) is a New York-based minimalist composer, filmmaker, multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation for avant-garde music. Niblock's work is an exploration of sound textures created by multiple tones in very dense, often atonal tunings (generally microtonal in conception) performed in long durations. This highly original music that, while…

Crazy sick weirdo noise / drone / rock / scary band from Sweden! The Skull Defekts are another one of those bands that seem to have gone from barely existing, with only a cd-r or an lp or two floating around, to a seriously productive group spitting out a release or two every few months.…

Daniel Levin has performed and/or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Rob Brown, Whit Dickey, Mark Dresser, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith and others. He has recorded as a sideman Clean Feed Records, EMANEM, Not Two and Rogue Art, and as a leader on HatHut and Riti records.…