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SUMMARY:An Evening of Evocation- Majid Araim x Carlos Santiago\, Singh x Noss x Winch\, Ricki Weidenhof
DESCRIPTION:DM @Peoplesmusicsupply on Instagram or email Peoplesmusicsupply@gmail.com for address  \nDM @Catlap_philly on Instagram or email phillycatlap@gmail.com for address \n\n\nMajid Araim- Mandolin/Voice Carlos Santiago- Violin \nSonali Singh- Bassoon \nRy Noss- Bass Trombone/Flute \nSylvia Winch- Trombone & Melodica \nRicki Weidenhof- Cello & Electronics
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/an-evening-of-evocation-majid-araim-x-carlos-santiago-singh-x-noss-x-winch-ricki-weidenhof/
ORGANIZER;CN="Peoples Music Supply":MAILTO:PeoplesMusicSupply@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Bryan Day/Toshi Makihara duo & Del Rossi Trio
DESCRIPTION:Bryan Day & Toshi Makihara duo: \nBryan Day is a sound artist\, instrument inventor\, and conceptual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using scavenged electronics\, repurposed mechanical components\, and amplified materials\, he reimagines them as constructivist sound sculptures. Since the late 1990s\, he has built over a hundred sound devices ranging from amplified measuring tapes and hacked radio transceivers to electromechanical installations using magnets\, hard drives\, and pendulums.His recorded work spans noisy electroacoustic improvisation\, droning minimalism\, and audio collage\, featured in projects such as Euphotic\, Collision Stories\, and Seeded Plain. He has performed\, taught workshops\, and built sound installations across Europe\, Asia\, and the Americas. By day\, he works as a museum exhibit and software developer at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.Since 1997\, Day has run the new music label Public Eyesore and its sister label Eh?\, producing over 300 albums of improvised and experimental music by artists from around the world. He has organized tours for American artists in Japan and curated events at venues including Canessa Gallery\, Meridian Gallery\, Clawfoot House\, Tiptop Haus\, and The Magic Theatre.Day also leads invented instrument–building workshops\, both to create instruments of his own design and to guide participants in building freeform sound objects from repurposed materials. His designs include the Whiskerphone\, Rotowhisker\, Sonic Marionette\, Sound Mouse\, Junk Kalimba\, and various circuit-bent instruments. \nToshi Makihara pursues non-idiomatic free improvised music using percussion and found objects / sound sites. Makihara studied drums and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi and Butoh with the master Kazuo Ohno in Tokyo. His approach to free improvisation is founded on the process of “Becoming the Sound” without seeking any particular accomplishment. \nDel Rossi Trio: \n“Listening to Del Rossi Trio\, I thought of landscapes: particularly\, the way they seem to subtly shift and change when viewed from tens of thousands of feet in flight\, presenting the persistent illusion of stillness despite the fact of infinite intricate activity taking place (not to mention the fact that you’re moving at hundreds of miles an hour all the while). The trio\, composed of droning harmonium\, cello and bass clarinet\, played two long\, meditative pieces: this was eyes-closed music\, drifting slowly in and out of consonance\, wide-open modal harmonies inching toward tension and rich\, crazy clusters of notes and harmonic traffic jams. Bass clarinetist Matthew Smith Lee’s cheeks would softly flutter on long-held notes\, and the cello and harmonium essentially blended into one big\, pulsing sound.”- Tyler Maxwell(Midbrow Philly) \naccessibility: one step from street to venue. Wheelchair ramp available please contact us ahead of time if possible.
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/bryan-day-toshi-makihara-duo-del-rossi-trio/
LOCATION:Brickbat Books\, 709 South 4th St\, Philadelphia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T190000
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DTSTAMP:20260915T033318Z
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SUMMARY:Extended Techniques\, Abbreviated - Eric McGarry / Aaron Pond / Jake Kaplan / Jonah Pfluger
DESCRIPTION:Eric McGarry / Aaron Pond / Jake Kaplan / Jonah Pfluger \nWhat is music? If an instrument is a tool with which we make music\, is anything made with that tool then music? On the other hand\, is any implement used in the making of music therefore an instrument—the enormous hammer in Mahler’s Symphony no. 6\, cannons in Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture\, and even the slow snapping of plywood in Saltwater Lung by contemporary composer J.L Marlor? Are the performers in “Here be Sirens” by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kate Soper “playing” the piano when instead of striking the strings to make them produce sound\, they use their own voices\, screaming into the instrument to create sympathetic resonance? \nExtended Techniques\, Abbreviated is an exploration of what instrumental performance can be\, featuring a variety of pieces. Each performance will toy with our conceptions of what a musical “instrument” is and how that instrument is “played.” Through improvisation and composition\, various objects and novel frameworks\, Extended Techniques\, Abbreviated interrogates the way we make music\, approaching the process in novel ways.
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/extended-techniques-abbreviated-eric-mcgarry-aaron-pond-jake-kaplan-jonah-pfluger/
LOCATION:Urban Movement Arts\, 2100 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:Dialogues 8: Kaethe Hostetter
DESCRIPTION:Dialogues: A Conversation and Performance is a series of events in which we invite someone to discuss their creative process and present an aspect or aspects of their work. For the eighth edition we present violinist and composer Kaethe Hostetter. \nHaving spent more than two decades immersed in Ethiopian music — including eleven years living in Addis Ababa as well as leading the highly acclaimed band Qwanqwa\, Kaethe is now performing a solo show called Woradj Alle (Impressions of Ethiopia) which is also the title of her debut solo album. \nBuilt from live-looped violin and electronics\, the album unfolds as a ritual performance: hypnotic\, textural\, and immersive—Ethiopian melodic systems refract through dub minimalism\, psych abstraction\, and avant improvisation. Not fusion\, but more transmission— music that blurs memory\, place\, and time. Each composition functions as a vignette: portraits of people\, fleeting encounters\, and atmospheres from the years she called Ethiopia home. \nA conversation with the artist will follow the performance. \nThis event is part of the 2026 Philly Fringe Festival.
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/dialogues-8-kaethe-hostetter/
LOCATION:Studio 34\, 4522 Baltimore Ave\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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SUMMARY:Trio Nebbia
DESCRIPTION:Trio Nebbia consists of Ji Hye Jung (percussion)\, Winston Choi (piano)\, and Geoffrey Deibel (saxophone). These three internationally acclaimed soloists combine three instruments less commonly heard together in the concert hall than in the jazz club\, offering a stunning array of sound worlds from the subtly nuanced to the unbridled and radical\, and providing a comprehensive sonic palate that can adapt to the vision of any composer. The trio met and began performing together regularly at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Italy (one of the premiere summer programs for contemporary music in the world) and decided to begin concertizing regularly in 2019. The trio members are all also active educators in the United States\, teaching at Vanderbilt University\, Roosevelt University\, and Florida State University respectively. Jung is regarded as the world’s finest marimba player\, winning the world’s top two competitions for the instrument. Praised as “spectacular” by the Los Angeles Times and “extraordinary” by the Ventura County Star\, the Times describes her as “a centered player who can give the impression of being very still yet at all places at once.” Choi is chair of the piano department at Roosevelt University. For over twenty-five years\, he has been one of the most in-demand pianists in contemporary music and has won the prestigious Orleans Piano Competition; a recent recording by Choi was given five stars by BBC Music Magazine. Deibel was a first prize winner in both the Fischoff and the NASA Quartet competitions with the h2 quartet\, and has premiered hundreds of works for his instrument by both established and emerging composers. Trio Nebbia has premiered music by Georges Aperghis and Jean-Patrick Besingrand\, and will give the premiere of a new work written for the ensemble by Pulitzer Prize winner and McArthur Genius Grant winner Tyshawn Sorey in 2025.
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/trio-nebbia/
LOCATION:University Lutheran Church\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Industry Night- Music for Lovers Only
DESCRIPTION:Squash Blossoms \nJessica Brown- Horn \nMekhi Gladden- Oboe/English Horn \nAndrew Gioanetti- Clarinet/Flute \nSonali Singh- Bassoon \nAaron Pond- Horn\, etc. Squash Blossoms is an improvising woodwind ensemble composed of multi-instrumentalists and active members of Philadelphia’s Peoples Music Supply. This quintet pairs the classical sounds anticipated of chamber music with more experimental influences found in contemporary improvised genres\, presenting its audience with a lively journey through sounds\, expected and surprising\, consonant and dissonant. Ann Adachi trio– Ann Adachi\, Melinda Rice\, and Jessica Brown  \n \nImprovised trio exploring the creation of space through the interplay of movement and sound. Finding one another through the merging and diverging of lines\, meeting and fleeting. Digging into the more delicate and subtle places that improvisation can take us. Pure Being- Thomas Patteson and Audrey Trout
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/industry-night-music-for-lovers-only/
LOCATION:Head Long Dance Theater\, 1170 South Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA
ORGANIZER;CN="Peoples Music Supply":MAILTO:PeoplesMusicSupply@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Situation Aesthetics #2        Hunter Brown (Berlin)\, Liam Kramer White and Morgan Evans-Weiler\, Rust Promoter
DESCRIPTION:Hunter will be on tour in the U.S. from Berlin. He runs the Party Perfect! label and makes sound art and computer music. Liam lives in Philadelphia and runs the excellent ‘Phons’ label. Morgan and Liam will play a duo set – Morgan on violin\, Liam on prepared guitar. Local Rust Promoter will present music for digital synthesis and analog radio transmitter.
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/situation-aesthetics-2-hunter-brown-berlin-liam-kramer-white-and-morgan-evans-weiler-rust-promoter/
LOCATION:Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement\, 1542 East Montgomery Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Patterns in a Chromatic Field T.J. Borden\, cello + Mari Kawamura\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present cellist T.J. Borden and pianist Mari Kawamura performing Morton Feldman’s evening length work Patterns in a Chromatic Field. Written in the last decade of his life\, this work is a unique example of his late style\, known for long durations and unpredictable repetition. In his maturity\, we find Feldman exploring different ways that ambiguity catalyzes performer interpretation and invites contemplation on the nature of the listener’s perception. Microtonal shadings ring against the equal tempered piano\, creating complex rhythmic constellations that drift slowly through the air. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nTyler J. Borden is a cellist working with\, in\, and around the constraints of the cello. Formerly from Western NY\, he is now based in Brooklyn NY\, where he spends much of his time finding ways to exploit the strengths and failures of himself and his instrument. Hailed for his “technically polished playing” (Jan Jezioro\, Artvoice) as well as his “astounding performances of superlatively difficult modernist solo works” (Edge of the Center)\, he is a dedicated purveyor of modern and experimental music. \nMari Kawamura is a concert pianist whose curiosity and wide-ranging interests have taken her in a variety of directions. Kawamura is drawn to music which utilizes the entirety of the piano as an expressive device\, enjoying equally music which showcases its tremendous agility\, and its ability to produce spacious resonances.
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/patterns-in-a-chromatic-field-t-j-borden-cello-mari-kawamura-piano/
LOCATION:The Perch\, 2321 Emerald St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mir Naqibul Islam - Tabla Waves: A New Sound
DESCRIPTION:Mir Naqibul Islam: \nMir Naqibul Islam (b. 1989 in Dhaka\, Bangladesh) is a New York based tabla player from the farukhabad gharana. He has trained in the traditional guru-shishya parampara pedagogical convention of North Indian classical music from Pandit Ashoke Paul\, a disciple of the great Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh. Mir began learning tabla at the age of seven from Pt. Madan Gopal Das at Chhayanaut\, a renowned music school in Dhaka\, and completed a six-year-long course from 1996 to 2001. Thereafter\, he continued onto advanced tabla studies with Pandit Ashoke Paul from the farukhabad gharana. During 2010–2012\, he also received training in the benaras gharana of tabla from Pandit Gopal Mishra at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Center in Dhaka. Mir was also connected to the Bengal Parampara Sangeetlaya (BPS)\, Dhaka as a music scholar from 2014–2016 under Guru Padma Shri Pandit Suresh Talwalkar and received training in the delhi gharana of tabla during this time. Currently\, Mir is continuing his advanced tabla studies with the legendary maestro Pandit Anindo Chatterjee. \nMir regularly performs tabla solo recitals in addition to accompanying vocalists\, instrumentalists\, and dancers from South Asian traditions including Hindustani and Bengali classical and semi-classical forms. He has received international acclaim for his performances for diverse audiences across Bangladesh\, India\, and the US. He has performed with world renowned musicians such as Pandit Krishna Mohan Bhatt\, Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya\, Pandit Anirban Dasgupta\, Pandit Steve Gorn\, Vidushi Bharati Pratap\, Gyan Riley\, Ben Monder\, and Premik Russel among others. He has been an active member of the New York based musicians collective Brooklyn Raga Massive since 2016\, playing a key role in experimental and genre crossing projects with the collective throughout. \nTabla Waves: A New Sound is a contemporary reimagining of the traditional tabla solo. Rooted in the centuries-old rhythmic traditions of North Indian classical music\, Mir Naqibul Islam explores the tabla through new sonic perspectives\, drawing from electronic music\, improvisation\, jazz\, folk traditions\, and other contemporary influences. At its core\, the tabla recital remains the foundation\, while sound\, rhythm\, and technology open new possibilities for how this timeless instrument can be heard. \nThe collaborators are: \nMir Naqibul Islam: Tabla \nSrikar Ayyalasomayajula: Harmonium \nMehrnam Rastegari: Kamancheh \nRandall Dunn: Synthesizer \n  \nvenue is wheelchair accessible
URL:https://www.avantphilly.com/event/mir-naqibul-islam-tabla-waves-a-new-sound/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19143\, United States
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