Instruments That Talk Back will be a seven-month celebration of the work of Don Buchla, a pioneering electronic instrument designer who revolutionized music technology with unconventional touch- and motion-sensitive interfaces and instruments that blurred the line between human and machine. The exhibition is scheduled to open on September 19, 2026 and will close on April […]
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2 events,The Community Synth Studio is a free, open studio where people can book time to use a collection of synthesizers and other electronic music equipment. It is open to all levels of experience, and the instruments are set up and ready to use during studio hours. You can use your session to patch a modular […]
free
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4 events,Modular synthesizers are wonderfully personal instruments: open-ended, endlessly flexible, and built on a few simple ideas. This four-part class starts with those foundations, including signal flow, voltage, gates, triggers, and clocks, then puts them to work across different kinds of music making. With extended hands-on time in the Neighborhood Sound Lab, you’ll build patches for […]
$25 – $50
Seating: General admission, first-come first-served. Age Requirement: Ages 8+. Under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Refund Policy: Tickets are non-refundable but transferable — you’re welcome to gift or sell them. Bookings: Tickets must be purchased online. No sales at the door. Accessibility: All venues are wheelchair accessible. Doors Open: 45 […]
$35
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3 events,We are presenting a series of free, en-plain air public performances which tap into the unique musical forms of Creative Music (a genre rooted in Philadelphia history through John Coltrane and Sun Ra) and Free Improvisation. These performances will be at Christ Church Gardens- October Wednesdays at 5:30PM- 20 N American St.
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6 events,doors 7PM sets 7:30 and 8:30 $5, refreshments included
$5
Tom Spiker – guitar Dave Palmer – keys Sandy Eldred – bass Charlie Hall – drums Daniel Villareal – percussion
$16.30
*** PLEASE NOTE, THIS SHOW IS CANCELLED BY THE ORGANIZER *** Ars Nova Workshop welcomes rising South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane and his band to Solar Myth on October 29. Hailing from Umlazi Township near Durban, South Africa, and tracing ancestry to KwaNongoma (“place of the diviner or mother of song”), Linda Sikhakhane‘s journey into […]
$30 – $35
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3 events,A special double bill of Penn Live Arts debuts! Violinist Arun Ramamurthy and his trio offer “a beautiful, exotic, ear-opening listening experience” with its fusion of jazz and South Indian Carnatic traditions. Performing music from his latest album, New Moon, as well as other originals and reimagined Carnatic repertoire, Ramamurthy’s set will be followed by […]
$83
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4 events,Ars Nova Workshop celebrates Halloween with the return of centenarian powerhouse Marshall Allen and his ever-changing Ghost Horizons ensemble at Solar Myth on Sunday, November 1, 2026. Allen has led a number of diverse incarnations of his Ghost Horizons band with guitarist DM Hotep at Solar Myth over the last few years, highlights of which […]
$42
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3 events,Ak’chamel: Honed and expanded through their travels, Ak’chamel’s singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and bizarre ritual folk is as unique as the physical theater of their otherworldly live performances. Dug up from the ground, beamed down from the heavens, or entirely conjured out of the human imagination, there’s no sure fire way to […]
$15 – $25
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5 events,Modular synthesizers are wonderfully personal instruments: open-ended, endlessly flexible, and built on a few simple ideas. This four-part class starts with those foundations, including signal flow, voltage, gates, triggers, and clocks, then puts them to work across different kinds of music making. With extended hands-on time in the Neighborhood Sound Lab, you’ll build patches for […]
$25 – $50
People’s Music Supply in collaboration with the Living Signal is presenting a weekly series of curated performances followed by an Open Improvisation Lab (OIL). Opening performances will feature some of the region’s best talent across a wide variety of styles generated in situ. The OIL portion will see participating audience members formed into groups via chance procedures, divine […]
$10 – $20
Two multifaceted pianists join forces for a must-see duo recital exploring themes of American art and musical language. Praised for his “superb blend of crisp keyboard clarity and soft-edged lyricism” (San Francisco Chronicle), Timo Andres makes his inaugural PCMS appearance while Aaron Diehl—known for his “traditional jazz sound with a sophisticated contemporary spin” (The Guardian)—returns […]
$32
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3 events,Jazz Night at The Ukrainian League is part of Each and Only’s Jazz Night series. The evening features Channel Collective and BeUs. Music starts at 7:30pm, and the bar opens at 6:30pm. Channel Collective set includes @trumpetbart (trumpet), @sandyeldredbass (bass), and @justin_leigh_drums (drums). BeUs lineup features @danblacksberg, @andrewurbinamusic, and @jeevesiam. Admission is $10 for ULP […]
$15
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5 events,Interested in using the Community Synth Studio? This orientation introduces the studio as a resource: the equipment we have, how it works, and how you can put it to use. We’ll walk through the instruments in our collection, from fully modular systems to semi-modular synths, so you know what’s here and how to make the […]
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Bow and Arrow (Lea Bertucci & Michael Behari): Bow and Arrow is the newly formed duo project of experimental composer Lea Bertucci (voice, electronics, flutes) and virtuoso guitarist Michael Beharie. This project takes cues from the obscure corners of western early music, flamenco, folk traditions and contemporary experimental music. Bow and Arrow is devotional music for the […]
$15 – $25
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4 events,“Vocally impressive, verbally elegant, and duly seductive” (Opera News), the “velvet-voiced” (The New Yorker) baritone Justin Austin makes his PCMS debut with pianist Howard Watkins, a leading vocal collaborator and assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. At the heart of their program are selections from The Threepenny Opera, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s 1928 satirical, […]
$32
Daniel Villarreal has long been a widely known and beloved character on the Chicago music scene, veering between psychedelic funk, spiritual jazz, soul, and the folkloric traditions of Latin America through an unmistakable sense of groove. Originally from Panama, he fuses his pan-Latin style with influences of psychedelic rock, Cumbia, afro-beat, boogaloo, rock, free experimental […]
$30 – $35
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9 events,Birdbath Sessions Ep. 1: Morphology Doors: 7 | Downbeat: 7:30 BIRDBATH SESSIONS brings four artists from different corners of Philly’s musical ecosystem together to form a temporary ensemble. The format is simple: each artist brings music from their own world, and then the group uses those different musical languages as a starting point for collective […]
$10 – $20
Daniel Villarreal has long been a widely known and beloved character on the Chicago music scene, veering between psychedelic funk, spiritual jazz, soul, and the folkloric traditions of Latin America through an unmistakable sense of groove. Originally from Panama, he fuses his pan-Latin style with influences of psychedelic rock, Cumbia, afro-beat, boogaloo, rock, free experimental […]
$30 – $35
Honoring 25 of years of the composer’s ambient masterwork ‘The Disintegration Loops’. William Basinski is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 40 years in NYC and Los Angeles. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life […] Bowerbird is pleased to present an evening of music by Laura Cetilia from her two releases on the elsewhere label, performed by Jack Yarbrough (piano), Hannah Soren (cello), and Laura Cetilia (cello). Works included: laminae for solo piano, becoming of shadows for cello and piano, and soil + stone for two cellos. ABOUT THE ARTIST […]
$15 – $25
Musicians: @violintriguing (Nathan Bishop), fiddle @flandrew.fleisenberg, percussion @ajkhaw, piano Matt Murphy, strings and objects (special guest from MA) Dancers: @desireamaiya @meganbridge_00 @vervetdance (Loren Groenendaal) Tickets Available at the door, $10–$25 sliding scale; barter options available. Venue is on the 4th floor and requires walking up 4 flight of stairs. Event is mask optional.
$10 – $25
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3 events,Bowerbird is pleased to present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing its third iteration of “Postal Pieces,” a concert featuring living composers in Philadelphia and beyond composing postcard-sized works inspired by James Tenney’s unorthodox set of compositions. Tenney’s “Postal Pieces,” composed between 1954 and 1971, are a series of ten concise works each printed on […]
$15 – $25
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3 events,Modular synthesizers are wonderfully personal instruments: open-ended, endlessly flexible, and built on a few simple ideas. This four-part class starts with those foundations, including signal flow, voltage, gates, triggers, and clocks, then puts them to work across different kinds of music making. With extended hands-on time in the Neighborhood Sound Lab, you’ll build patches for […]
$25 – $50
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3 events,Sixty years ago, on November 11, 1966, John Coltrane played a concert at Temple University that became Offering: Live at Temple University. This November 11, we return to Mitten Hall to ask the question that night still raises: what does it mean to give, to receive, and to pass something on? The Summit is the […]
$20
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4 events,with Kris Davis, Robert Hurst, Terri Lyne Carrington and moreOn November 11, 1966, John Coltrane returned to his former hometown of Philadelphia for a performance at Temple University’s Mitten Hall that would become the stuff of legend. The concert, which finally saw a belated release in 2014 as the Grammy-winning Offering: Live at Temple University, […]
$35 – $40
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4 events,Teodora Stepančić resides in Brooklyn and has been producing the Piano + series for years as well as working as an incredibly active composer and performer of experimental chamber music and the like. She will be joined on this concert by a special guest composer and performer. They will perform some lovely music including some […] |
3 events,Legendary sound collage group Negativland and “real-time cinema” visual artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance: SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE! “Negativland are proud subverters of culture, causing trouble while having fun.” – NPR Tiny Desk Concert “Negativland have made a rewarding career out of being prodigious consumers of media who then digest it […]
$22
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3 events,Modular synthesizers are wonderfully personal instruments: open-ended, endlessly flexible, and built on a few simple ideas. This four-part class starts with those foundations, including signal flow, voltage, gates, triggers, and clocks, then puts them to work across different kinds of music making. With extended hands-on time in the Neighborhood Sound Lab, you’ll build patches for […]
$25 – $50
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4 events,This celebratory program honors the distinguished career of Don Liuzzi during his final season as Principal Timpanist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The evening explores a series of ethereal and rarely heard pieces, including Liuzzi’s original arrangement of Debussy’s Clair de lune, offering a profound farewell to a Philadelphia legend. Don Liuzzi, Christopher Deviney, Angela Zator […] Still in his early 30s, trumpeter Adam O’Farrill has earned the respect of his peers and elders alike, not to mention music-school hopefuls who transcribe him alongside bop-era greats. The New York Times ranks him, “among the leading trumpeters in jazz” and hails him as, “ perhaps the music’s next major improviser.” He’s a musician […]
$30 – $35
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4 events,If there’s one constant with Resavoir, the sprawling and adventurous project from Chicago-based producer, trumpeter, and composer Will Miller, it’s perpetual evolution. In the years since Miller started releasing music under the moniker, he’s released two acclaimed self-titled LPs that masterfully merged knotty electronics with pastoral natural textures and a serene and verdant 2025 LP […]
$22 – $25
Bowerbird presents Arcana New Music Ensemble in a second performance of Cornelius Cardew’s landmark graphic score Treatise at The Rotunda. Last November the ensemble performed about 20 of the score’s 193 pages. This year they take on a different set of pages, with the score projected so the audience can follow along. About Treatise Treatise […]
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3 events,Jen Shyu is a groundbreaking,multilingual vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with or sung the music of such musical […]
$30 – $35
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3 events,The Jazz Gallery is America’s premier performance venue for emerging artists who challenge convention, take creative risks and lead their field as performers, composers and thinkers. The cultural center developed its Joyce Wein Mentorship Program to cultivate a group of senior-level jazz musicians as mentors and to provide aspiring musicians with the opportunity to learn […]
$30 – $35
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4 events,MANAS: Tashi Dorji: guitar Thom Nguyen: drums Che Chen: guitar, percussion, homemade instruments MANAS was formed in 2012 in Asheville, NC by guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Thom Nguyen. The intensity of their live shows, characterized by Dorji’s angular guitar preparations and Nguyen’s multi-limbed maelstroms exploding outwards in parallel, immediately caught the ear of the […]
$15 – $25
Bowerbird is pleased to present Matthew Levy at The Rotunda for a record release concert of music for tenor saxophone and electronics. Matthew Levy — founding member of the world-renowned PRISM Quartet — steps out as soloist for a record release recital celebrating his ongoing exploration of music for tenor saxophone and electronics. The concert […]
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