8pm: neem (gabby fluke-mogul, kelley kipperman)
9pm Zachary Mariano - trombone/electronics
gabby fluke-mogul is a performing, teaching, composing & collaborating-improviser based out of the bay area. they have existed as a violin-body//body in south florida, western massachusetts, & the wider new england area. gfm performs in & with a variety of projects, installations, bodies, & instrument bodies in addition to facilitating community-based workshops, & teaching in public, private, & non-profit learning spaces. their compositions//text-scores take up issues of the politics & poetics of bodies & instrument-bodies. gabby presently studies with fred frith, zeena parkins, roscoe mitchell, india cooke, & pauline oliveros at mills college in the MFA program for performance & literature with improvisation specialization.
k. kipperman is a queer & vegan multi-media artist, who has spent time living, breathing, & collaborating in the western massachusetts & greater new england areas, berlin, & most recently the bay area. inspired by something, everything, & sometimes even nothing, k is always thinking about what it means to be connected to & critical of one's own body, identity, & privilege within music, sound, noise, silence, composition, art, communities, & everything else in the entire world (also outer space).
Zachary Mariano is a trombonist and computer musician who has developed a performance that utilizes a computer program that both records and analyzes sound input, then distorts the recordings dramatically upon playback, prompting new responses and reactions from the improvising player.