ALL AGES. Masks are required at all times for audience members; performers can opt to unmask while performing but are required otherwise.
DOORS 7:00 / SHOW 7:30 / DONE BY 10:00 / Tickets $10
Outside the sphere the landscape does not exist. Each page of the map unfolds, blank. Every step draws new forms, lays new pathways, connects new passages. Behind us, our footfalls erase themselves.
Outside the sphere the machines are alive. Just like you and me, they breathe. Periodically they exert themselves, goading us to steer them, subdue them. At times we can do this, other times they dominate as we withdraw.
Michael Brenneis and Tony Barba present Outside the Sphere, an electro acoustic collaboration of tenor saxophone and drums, featuring signal path manipulation and electronic instruments of all description.
https://rattletickbuzz.com/outside-the-sphere/
https://deedsone.bandcamp.com/album/outside-the-sphere
https://youtu.be/QyAz4kvp1TQ?si=o_4Cu5QUkJ3bW0vb
https://www.instagram.com/bonytarba
https://www.instagram.com/rattletickbuzz
Matt Blair is a pianist, composer, and educator living in Madison, Wisconsin. His work draws upon diverse musical traditions such as jazz and improvisation, sound art, minimalism, and electronic music. In addition to his practice as a pianist, he incorporates extended electronic processing of the Fender Rhodes, synthesizers, and the computer in his music.
Since 2018, Matt has been releasing music on his label, Scribbled Fang Records. Recent releases have included Shadow Sets, a collection of compositions for solo piano that was produced by Dave King (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple), Post Rock Lately, the debut record of Collector, an improvising trio featuring Jakob Heinemann on bass and Devin Drobka on drums and electronics, and Flights and Poor Health Good Spirits, both releases by Big Thanks, a Minneapolis-based Trash House trio featuring Miles Allen on saxophone and clarinet and Jack Lussenden on drums. Other recent releases have included After Party (out on Dinzu Artefacts), the debut record of Yins, an electronic duo with Devin Drobka, and Resorts (out on Shifting Paradigm Records), a piano trio featuring Devin Drobka’s compositions with Aaron Darrell on bass.
https://www.instagram.com/mattblair_music/
Tim Russell lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He currently serves as Music Director for the University of Wisconsin Dance Program. In 2019, Tim was selected as one of the Cowles Visiting Artists at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a first for a Musician in the field of Dance. He has a vast catalogue of works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement. His commitment to the nowness in performance led him to co-create/curate, along with choreographer Maria Gillespie, Hyperlocal MKE, a Music and Dance improvisation series that exists to this day in Milwaukee. His current curatorial project, Common Sage Arts, promotes multidisciplinary artists through carefully curated performances. He holds an MFA in Music Improvisation from Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied improvisation, electronic music and composition with the likes of Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell and Zeena Parkins. His 2020 album Junct, a collection of improvisational duets with bassist Ari Smith, was included in Tone Madison’s top 20 records of 2020.
https://avoidancepolicy.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/avoidancepolicy
Accessibility notes: We have two steps to come in the front door, and one step in our back door. There are two steps into the second portion of our building to reach the bathroom. We have ramps we can put it place for anyone who needs them. Please let us know if we may assist you in accessing the space.
We have limited parking behind our building in a small lot.