Earth Tongues: An ensemble dedicated to exploring the scope and scale of experimental improvised music, Earth Tongues approaches each performance as a chance to build new, challenging work that take silence and ambient sound into full account. Consisting of Carlo Costa on percussion, Joe Moffett on trumpet, and Dan Peck on tuba, the trio creates immersive pieces that weave through a […]
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1 event,A fundraiser for Fire Museum Presents. Keir Neuringer: Keir Neuringer is a saxophonist, composer, and writer committed to emancipatory and interdisciplinary practices in his work, activism, and parenting. He co-founded the critically-acclaimed band Irreversible Entanglements and co-leads the improvisation trio Dromedaries. Traveling widely to present his work, he has appeared internationally on festival stages, in […]
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1 event,Imal Gnawa stands at the intersection of traditions rooted in the deep spiritual and rhythmic legacy of Moroccan Gnawa music and bold futurism. Imal Gnawa seeks to weave together ritualistic trance acoustic elements with futuristic aesthetics, creating a soundscape that is as timeless as it is avant-garde. At the core of this music lies an […]
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1 event,AIRLFT: Kevin Diehl, Elliott Levin, Matt Lavelle, DM Hotep, Joshua Marquez, Keith DeStefano, Tom Lowery – Philly’s deep rooted, multi-culti, inter-gen, sonic omnivores. .Look for our various LPs in 2025. Take SEPTA Rt. 23 bus; RR Chestnut Hill West to Carpenter; Carpool!. The AIRLFT series is EVERY 4th THURSDAY – PHOTO: @John Hubbard…#harmolodic#isthatjazz#LiveMusic#phillymusic#improv #experimental#vibemusic#jazz #phillyjazz#ornette#AEC#ayler#dudupakwana#afrofuturist
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1 event,Bill Nace is an experimental musician based in Philadelphia, PA. While Nace maintains a robust career as a solo musician, he has become widely known for many of his collaborations including Michael Morley, Graham Lambkin, Sakina Abdou, John Truscinski, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the experimental […]
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1 event,Hope Vine Pathway by Aaron Pond (Trio for Improvisors in Urban Nature) Three performances at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. Rain (indoors) or Shine. Free. Hope Vine Pathway by Aaron Pond Composition for Improvisors in Urban Nature Performers Aaron Pond- Quena, Courting Flute, Slide Whistle, Wagner Tuba, Percussion Hudson River- Vibraphone Will Fredendaal- Flutes, Dizi […]
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1 event,Modular on the Spot (MOTS) is a recurring, free, outdoor picnic-style event for modular synthesizer enthusiasts in Philadelphia, similar to events in other cities like Los Angeles and globally. Performers using modular synths set up their gear in parks and outdoor locations, often with a generator and sound system, to create experimental electronic music for […]
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1 event,Ars Nova Workshop presents one of creative music’s most prolific and wide-ranging musicians, guitar innovator Marc Ribot as he celebrates the release of his new album, Map of a Blue City, at Solar Myth on September 29-30, 2025. Revered guitarist Marc Ribot has released over 25 albums under his own name over a 40-year career, […]
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1 event,Ars Nova Workshop presents one of creative music’s most prolific and wide-ranging musicians, guitar innovator Marc Ribot as he celebrates the release of his new album, Map of a Blue City, at Solar Myth on September 29-30, 2025. Revered guitarist Marc Ribot has released over 25 albums under his own name over a 40-year career, […]
$37 – $39
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2 events,Joe McPhee & Michael Foster’s The Ghost: Joe McPhee grew up in New York, is a multi-instrumentalist and plays since the late 60s within the creative and free jazz music world. His play is energetic, demanding and breathtaking sensitive – still with over 80 years! He learnt to play trumpet as a kid and – […]
$15 – $25
Camila Niebla is a Berlin-based saxophonist, composer, improviser, visual artist, and curator originally from Buenos Aires, hailed by Jazz.pt as “an essential saxophonist of our time.” Her multidisciplinary practice forms a powerful constellation of music, film, and performance that explores identity, migration, and the erasures and hauntings of memory. Through both composition and improvisation, […]
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1 event,Some songs, some freaks, something we don’t know and your old friends.
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4 events,Makaya McCraven can best be described as a beat scientist. The cutting-edge drummer, producer, and sonic collagist is a multi-talented force whose inventive process and intuitive style of performance defy categorization. Called “a sound visionary” (jazzinchicago.org) who is “not your everyday jazz drummer” (thewordisbond.com), McCraven brilliantly moves between genres and pushes the boundaries of jazz […]
$30 – $40
Bowerbird is pleased to present the New Thread Quartet performing their program Explorations. The ensemble invites the audience to a reception following the performance. New Thread Quartet presents Explorations, Vol. 8: Energy Flows, featuring music by Marilyn Shrude, Georg Friedrich Haas, Hannah Kendall, James Tenney, and a world premiere by Hong-Da Chin. The quartet’s annual […]
$15 – $25
Neti-Neti (Amirtha Kidambi & Matt Evans) Neti-Neti is the lo-fi ritual music duo of Matt Evans (drums/electronics) and Amirtha Kidambi (vocals/electronics) that formed amidst their mutual experiences surrounding grief after the death of loved ones. Neti-Neti, translated as “It is not this, it is not that” from Sanskrit, is a contemplation on the nature of […]
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Makaya McCraven can best be described as a beat scientist. The cutting-edge drummer, producer, and sonic collagist is a multi-talented force whose inventive process and intuitive style of performance defy categorization. Called “a sound visionary” (jazzinchicago.org) who is “not your everyday jazz drummer” (thewordisbond.com), McCraven brilliantly moves between genres and pushes the boundaries of jazz […]
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2 events,Makaya McCraven can best be described as a beat scientist. The cutting-edge drummer, producer, and sonic collagist is a multi-talented force whose inventive process and intuitive style of performance defy categorization. Called “a sound visionary” (jazzinchicago.org) who is “not your everyday jazz drummer” (thewordisbond.com), McCraven brilliantly moves between genres and pushes the boundaries of jazz […]
$30 – $40
Lucian Ban & Matt Maneri: Transylvanian Dance (A multimedia performance) Drawing from their acclaimed 2024 ECM Records duo release Transylvanian Dance, pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri will re-imagine live through improvisation the Béla Bartók Field Recordings of early 20th Century folk songs from Transylvania bringing back to life century old songs using video […]
$15 – $25
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