Upstairs at Abbyssinia: Kari Watson, Sam Wenc, Misses, Jason Calhoun

SAVE THE DATE🔸WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15, 8PM!@upstairsabyss solo sets by Kari Watson, Sam Wenc, Misses & Jason Calhoun. Philly friends get to this gig!

~About the artists~
Misses (Maya Weber) is a venture in resonance, picking up the lever harp to converse with God’s cantus firmus, reaching towards polyphony. Misses is a practice of receiving grace.

‘The hallmark of jason calhoun’s music—either under his given name or under the naps alias—is an emotional resonance that allows fragility and perseverance to occupy the same space. Though humble in his approach, calhoun has done something quietly extraordinary in building a body of work that, unlike so much music that seeks to transport you elsewhere, instead asks you to check in with yourself.’

Sam Wenc is a composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist working with sound, text, performance and installation. He has released music on Longform Editions, Where to Now, Moone Records, Noumenal Loom, Sweet Wreath, and Obsolete Staircases, amongst others. His work has been supported by Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm, Sweden), Art OMI (Ghent, NY), Foundation for Contemporary Arts and has performed throughout the US, Canada, Peru, and Japan.

Kari Watson (they/them) is a composer, performer, and intermedia artist whose work explores the intersections of contemporary concert music, electroacoustic composition, live performance, and interactive installation. Their composition practice is cross-disciplinary and deeply collaborative, often involving workshop-driven processes that prioritize collective exploration and exchange. As a performer playing analog synthesizers, they engage a customizable spatialization software built in MaxMSP with spatial speaker arrays to further explore issues of tactility and drama in immersive sonic environments.

Philly friends come on out it’s gonna be a great show💥