Guitarist Alex Heigl, saxophonist Nora Free, and bassist Chris Trinidad are joined by drummer Ian MacKenzie for a one-off night of improvised music. Heigl's ambient soundscapes and droning fingerpicked guitar provides a widescreen jumping-off point for Free's Pharoah Sanders-influenced saxophone and Trinidad's rock-solid basslines. Anchored by McKenzie's minimalist drums, the quartet will wind its way through a set of on-the-spot composition splitting the different between modal grooves and ambient textures.
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2x2: an evening of duo and quartet improvisations with Kevin Corcoran, James Fei, Jacob Felix Heule, Bill Hsu

7:30 Corcoran/Heule percussion duo
8:15 Fei/Hsu electronics duo
9:00 Corcoran/Fei/Heule/Hsu quartet

Kevin Corcoran and Jacob Felix Heule are a Bay Area percussion duo focused on activating drums with surface friction, found objects, and amplification. With emphasis on texture and tone, they approach musical time as field for events rather than rhythmic pulse. Working together regularly for years, in duo and with various collaborators, they shape improvisations through a shared language of extended techniques.

Corcoran/Heule Duo recording: https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/erosion
Corcoran/Heule Duo live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTSe4n8SbIQ
Kevin Corcoran website: www.kevincorcoran.net
Kevin Corcoran instagram: @orcora
Jacob Felix Heule website: https://heule.us
Jacob Felix Heule bandcamp: https://humbler.bandcamp.com/
Jacob Felix Heule videos: https://youtube.com/channel/UCoDjMs2uFjE1JiJVw2XzvoA

James Fei (b. Taipei, Taiwan) is a composer, saxophonist and electronic musician. Works by Fei have been performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars, MATA Micro Orchestra and Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest. Recordings can be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, Krabbesholm and Organized Sound. Fei taught at Mills College from 2006 to 2026.

web: www.jamesfei.com
Instagram: @james_._fei

Bill Hsu works with electronics and interactive video. He uses gestural interfaces to control animation and sound synthesis. He is inspired by improvisers who have developed rich palettes of extended techniques.

https://billhsu.net
https://billhsu.bandcamp.com

Photos:
Top L-R: Heule; Hsu; Corcoran (photo by Zhang Ping, cropped from original)
Bottom: Fei (photo by Alice Wu, cropped from https://www.jamesfei.com/pictures/pictures-press/Fei_Buchla.jpg)
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Dimmer (Hammer/Dimuzio)
Medicine Cabinet (Tracy)
Connor Tomaka
Impact Design
Mabbie Bug & Company (Luca)

26 yrs of no fuss 2 hr shows, gourmet pancakes free with entrance fee.
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Within Philip Glass' broad and cinematic compositional catalogue, these five solo piano pieces, sharing their name with Franz Kafka's novella, are among his most distinct and memorable works. The themes of isolation, emptiness, and despair become wholly realized in his stark and circular motifs. He relates the novella's feelings of alienation with such earnestness and reverence, adding only the most necessary melodic accents to an emotional and absurdist story.

Conceptually, at the heart of this performance are the existential emotions that manifest in us through the inevitable and constant nature of change. Change permeates every aspect of reality and remains profoundly difficult to accept, because acceptance itself is subject to change. Alongside the piano, live electronic and ambient effects give voice to that difficulty. However, there must be some form of self-acceptance that allows and wants change, and that is what this performance is aiming to find.
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