**NOTE VENUE CHANGE FOR THIS EVENT**

BEGIN is a creative music series organized by William Bradley and Jon Mueller. The series features nationally and internationally known artists working in improvised and other creative approaches to sound and instrumentation.

On Saturday, July 28th, composer SCOTT FIELDS will perform as part of the series at 7PM at the Popelka Trenchard Glass Gallery in Sturgeon Bay. Traveling from Germany to tour the US, Fields will perform solo guitar pieces from his recent CD Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame.

Having performed frequently in Chicago during his formative years, at the age of 23 Fields stopped performing and moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he studied classical guitar with George Lindquist and took classes in composition and music theory at the University of Wisconsin. Later he studied jazz guitar with Carl Michel and Roger Brotherhood and classical guitar with Javier Calderon and Wulfin Lieske. As leader of his own groups and as a sideman, Fields has toured throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He has released more than 30 CDs as a leader or co-leader, has been a sideman on numerous other recordings and appears on several compilation CDs. In 2003 he resettled in Cologne, Germany.

He has been commissioned by Ensemble Musikfabrik, The Bonn Beethoven Festival, the Milwaukee Improvisers Orchestra, Kanopy Dance, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, the Wisconsin Alliance for Composers, Douglas Rosenburg, Arno Oehri, the Köln Musiktriennale, and the Brühl Haydn Festival. More info at www.scottfields.com.

“labyrinthine works blur the line between the composed and the improvised”
– All About Jazz

“alternately weird, discomfiting and stimulating”
– Jazziz Magazine

“Adventurous, constantly engaging and often passionate”
– The Wire

A suggested donation of $10 at the door will go directly to the performing artist. No advance tickets are available.

Join us for an environment of listening, relaxation, reading and writing. From 4:00 to 6:00pm on Sunday, July 29 at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor, contemporary classical and ambient music will be played via the soothing sound of LP – some of it not available digitally – to create a contemplative space to unplug and focus on enriching words in books, write down one’s own thoughts, or simply take in the beautiful view of nature from the surrounding large windows of the Kress Pavillion.

In conjunction with Write On, Door County and the Egg Harbor Library, a selection of books on nature, poetry, and other thoughtful topics will be collected on tables in a created lounge area in the Kress Pavillion. Write On, Door County will also provide journals for people to write thoughts and ideas that come out of the experience.

While there are many opportunities in Door County to socialize, the aim for this ongoing series of Reading Meditation events is an opportunity for people to have quiet time to think and reflect in a comfortable and thought-provoking environment.

There is no admission charge for this event.

About the organizers:

Jon Mueller is a drummer, percussionist and composer who has performed throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Europe and Japan, including notable venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, The Arnolfini, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, and festivals such as SXSW, Hopscotch, Osheaga and Primavera. A founding member of the bands Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Pele, he has also worked with a variety of musicians throughout the US and Europe. He has given talks on listening and creativity at Loyola University, Wesleyan University, Viva Art Action-Montreal and the Zen Buddhist Temple-Chicago. More info on Jon’s work can be found at http://rhythmplex.com/.

Write On, Door County focuses on the importance of writing and reading and the ability of people to connect through stories. They provide a beautiful and inspiring retreat for writers on 39 acres in the middle of the Door County peninsula and conduct classes, programs, and special events throughout the county for all ages and experience levels. More info at http://writeondoorcounty.org/.

Current and former Milwaukee Ballet dancers collaborate in an evening of live music and dance with experimental artists Jon Mueller (composer) and Dawn Springer (choreographer). The music in the performance was originally written and recorded in 2010 by Mueller for his record ‘The Whole’, released by Type Recordings in the UK. For this performance, it has been re-imagined for piano, percussion and voice by Mueller and David Utzinger, and this will be the premiere live performance of this material. Springer’s choreography set to Mueller’s composition was created for 3 female dancers — Ania Hidalgo, Rachel Malehorn, and Janel Meindersee. This project will mark Mueller and Springer’s 4th collaboration. Previous commissions have included two consecutive projects with the Eaux Claires Music and Arts Festival, as well as the 2017 Dance Series at Lawrence University and in Real Time at the Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee. Their collaborations are meta-inquiries into live performance, asking how we know what is before us. Their work has been described as “mesmerizing” by Spin Magazine, and as an “inherently visceral experience” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Sunday, August 19th at 7pm Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion
www.kresspavilion.org
7845 Church St, Egg Harbor, WI 54209
920-868-3334
$20 Suggested Donation, cash only at door

About the Artists
Jon Mueller is a drummer, percussionist and composer who has performed throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Europe and Japan, including notable venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, The Arnolfini, New Museum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, and festivals such as SXSW, Hopscotch, Osheaga and Primavera. A founding member of the bands Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Pele, he has also worked with a variety of musicians throughout the US and Europe and currently is drummer, percussionist and vocalist in the group Mind Over Mirrors. He has given talks on listening and creativity at Loyola University, Wesleyan University, Viva Art Action-Montreal and the Zen Buddhist Temple-Chicago. More info on Jon’s work can be found at ​http://rhythmplex.com/

Dawn Springer is an independent choreographer based in Milwaukee, WI. She has performed, choreographed and given artist talks throughout the United States and abroad. She spent ten years working as an artist in New York, NY before returning to the midwest. Her choreography has been described as “surging and lush” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and as “beautiful composition” (Milwaukee Magazine). Her recent projects include choreography for singer songwriter Marielle Allschwang and Collections of Colonies of Bees, including for their 2018 BMO Harris Bradley Center performance with Bon Iver. She is currently working on new choreography with Nick Sanborn’s (of Grammy nominated Sylvan Esso) Made of Oak album ​Penumbra​ through commission support from the University of Wisconsin Peck School of the Arts. Prior to earning her MFA through Hollins University/The American Dance Festival, she completed her BFA on scholarship at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, studying with many acclaimed artists including Melissa Hayden. Her writing on dance has been published in journals and is included as a chapter in the recently released Dance in American Culture Anthology (University Press of Florida). ​www.dawnspringer.com

Performance sponsored by Donald and Carol Kress Pavilion

BEGIN is a creative music series held in the studio above The Artists Guild in Sturgeon Bay, WI. Organized by William Bradley and Jon Mueller, the series will feature nationally and internationally known artists working in improvised and other creative approaches to sound and instrumentation.

The aim of BEGIN is to engage the Door County community in events that accentuate the decisions and actions of the creative process within live performance. These experiences will hopefully inspire new perspectives and ideas for each individual within their own creative disciplines and even their daily lives.

On Saturday, August 25th at 7PM we welcome Helen Money as part of the series.

Helen Money is Alison Chesley, a cellist who has become known for her adventurous sound, bold compositions and compelling stage performance. Called “A classical-cellist-turned-avant-metal virtuoso” by the Boston Phoenix, she has recorded and toured with artists such as Bob Mould, MONO, Anthrax, Broken Social Scene, Russian Circles, Shellac, Neurosis, and Jarboe among others. Chesley has released four solo albums, the most recent of which, “Become Zero” is on Thrill Jockey records and features Jason Roeder (Neurosis) on drums and Rachel Grimes (Rachels) on piano. More info at www.helenmoney.com.

“Become Zero is an affecting and profound work that inspires great empathy.” – Record Collector

“…spare but heavy, dark but beautiful, melodic but meditative.” – The Guardian

“…brutal, direct and reflective.” – Dusted

The series is limited to forty seats per event and no advance tickets will be available. A suggested donation of $10 at the door will go directly to the performing artist.

Gong / percussion meditation

Sunday, September 2

SUMAC
Jon Mueller
Infernal Coil

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