june
2jun7:00 pmBEGIN series: Tyler Damon
Venue
Popelka Trenchard Glass Gallery
64 S 2ND AVENUE, STURGEON BAY, WI 54235
Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm CST
Event Details
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Event Details
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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, June 2nd, drummer and percussionist TYLER DAMON will perform as part of the series at 7PM at the Popelka Trenchard Glass Gallery in Sturgeon Bay.
TYLER DAMON (b. 1987, Cincinnati, OH USA) is a Chicago, Illinois based artist whose work aims to reveal obscured and untold narratives via drums/percussion & free improvisation. In addition to solo work, Tyler is involved in extended duo exhibitions with guitarist Tashi Dorji, saxophonist Dave Rempis & bassist Darin Gray (as Duo Oninbo). He is presently drumming with Circuit Des Yeux and is also regularly engaged with John Dawson as the shape-shifting outfit Thee Open Sex.
Tyler has toured extensively in North America, Europe & Vietnam and is also regularly engaged with other artists, musicians and heads of various sorts across the American Midwest. His recorded output has been offered by a myriad of labels including Family Vineyard, Magnetic South, Drag City, Auris Apothecary, Astral Spirits, Trost, Feeding Tube & Yoke. More info at www.tylerdamon.com.
“Damon draws so many sounds out of his kit so quickly and with such intention and imagination it’s hard to imagine it coming from one person.” – Isaac Olson, Dusted Magazine
“…his solo showcase […] shows that he can play dynamically, fading up from near nothingness to passages where his surging attack fills all available space like a deploying airbag.” – Bill Meyer, Wire Magazine
A suggested donation of $10 at the door will go directly to the performing artist.
Popelka Trenchard Glass Gallery is located at 64 S. 2nd Avenue in Sturgeon Bay.
3jun7:00 pmTom Hamilton & City of Vorticity
Venue
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212
Time
(Sunday) 7:00 pm
Event Details
Alternating Currents Live presents: Tom
Event Details
Alternating Currents Live presents: Tom Hamilton & City of Vorticity
with guest soloists
Rick Aaron – flute
Marielle Allschwang – guitar
Jon Mueller – percussion
Steve Nelson-Raney – saxophone
“City of Vorticity” is a constantly changing electronic sound environment composed by Tom Hamilton with a constantly changing sequence of improvising soloists who interact with the electronic sound. “City of Vorticity” was first presented at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY, as part of their Interpretations series and subsequently presented at the 2016 Sound Symposium festival in St. John’s Newfoundland. A CD recording was released by Pogus Productions in Fall 2015.
Tom Hamilton has composed and performed electronic music for over 25 years. He most often features older analog synthesizers in performance and recording. Since 1979, he has been exploring the relationships between ‘Formal and Informal Music’ in an ongoing series of concerts and recordings that contrast structure with improvisation and textural electronics with acoustic instruments. Since 1990, Hamilton has been a member of composer Robert Ashley’s touring opera ensemble, performing sound processing and mixing in both recordings and concerts. An installation version of Tom Hamilton’s “Off-Hour Wait State” was presented at Woodland Pattern in 1997 with a performance that included guest soloists Rick Aaron and Steve Nelson-Raney. In 2002, the Tom Hamilton – Peter Zummo Duo performed the collaborative composition “Slybersonic Tromosone” in the Alternating Currents Live series.
More info at Woodland Pattern Book Center.
july
28jul7:00 pmBEGIN series: Scott Fields
Venue
Popelka Trenchard Glass Gallery
64 S 2ND AVENUE, STURGEON BAY, WI 54235
Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm CST
Event Details
**NOTE VENUE CHANGE FOR THIS
Event Details
**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.
august
25aug7:00 pmBEGIN series: Helen Money
Venue
Artists Guild
215 N. 3rd Avenue, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm CST
Event Details
BEGIN is a creative music
Event Details
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.
