KRYS BOBROWSKI + Karen Stackpole
JAMES GOODE
SUNG KIM

KRYS BOBROWSKI and Karen Stackpole, long-time collaborators in the improvising quartet Vorticella, organically formed a duo combining Stackpole’s Gongs with Bobrowski’s Gliss Glass, an invented instrument of her own design that consists of water-filled glass vessels mounted on telescoping stands that are interconnected with tubes and valves. By varying the height of the vessels and opening and closing the valves, Bobrowski can dynamically alter the pitch of the sound by changing the level of the water as the instrument is played via friction, mallets, bare hands, and splashes. The sounds are captured via piezo pickups and amplified. The Gliss Glass blends extremely well with the sound of the Gongs played by Stackpole, who employs various techniques with friction mallets, bows, and other implements. Karen Stackpole and Krys Bobrowski create a deep sonic journey that unfurls into an engaging and transcendent soundtrack for the imagination.

JAMES GOODE coaxes extraordinary sounds from everyday objects. Russian nested dolls are transformed into squealing narwhals; bird calls into growling lions; the voice box from a stuffed animal into a flock of hungry seagulls; and brief vocal sounds into the soundtrack for a comic and surreal conga line. Defying easy description or pigeonholing, his music takes you to an unfamiliar place filled with luscious atonality and compelling polyrhythm. He navigates a course between austere minimalism on the one hand and pandemonium on the other. Goode has recorded and/or performed with Chris Cohen, John Dieterich, Thomas Dimuzio, Shelley Hirsch, Bill Horist, John Ingle, Cheryl Leonard, Bär McKinnon, Roger Powell, Jesse Quattro, Jake Rodriguez, Greg Saunier, David Slusser, Ches Smith, Trey Spruance, Sudhu Tewari, Gregg Turkington, William Winant, and many others.

SUNG KIM presents four of his most recent iterations of musical instruments that he has been developing for the last 36 years. In the tradition of Korean sanjo, he improvises with a collection of melodies that were developed in tandem with the instruments. A sculptor and self taught composer operating a design and build studio in Richmond under the name of Hare and Arrow Arts, Kim writes:
"With every instrument that I complete, I feel as if my goal for the full ensemble that I have been searching for gets further away and I am realizing that I may never be finished. Please come and celebrate my unending toil."
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THOMAS CARNACKI [CHERYL E LEONARD + GREGORY SCHARPEN + AGNES SZELAG]
Anne Rainwater + MEERENAI SHIM

The Rainwater-Shim Duo (pianist Anne Rainwater and flutist MEERENAI SHIM) performs duos and solos, including Pencilled Wings for flute, piano, and electronic playback by Emma O'Halloran, Caroline Ansink's Greener Grass and Elliott Carter's 90+ for piano, and Miniatures Book 4: Preset Etudes for flute and electronics by Brent Miller.


THOMAS CARNACKI, in the performance arena, has numbered as many as seven individuals, and as few as zero. Primary aesthetic concerns tend to revolve around uneasy textures, nuance, organicity, and peculiarity. Repeat offenders down the years have included the late Jim Kaiser, Gregory Hagan, Jesse Burson, and Sheila Bosco; this evening's incarnation consists of Cheryl E. Leonard and GREGORY SCHARPEN alongside AGNES SZELAG. Carnacki music has accompanied dance pieces, films, plays, and outdoor installation spectacles across the continent and internationally. The most recent recorded documents to have been released into the world are the sibling albums Cadavre Isolé and Rencontre Fortuite, both derived from a formal exercise of inspired happenstance in the middle of lockdown.
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