Wayward Music Series: Bassett, Samara, Suzuki, Krausbauer, Kelley, & Millis

Marcia Bassett (guitar) and Samara Lubelski (violin) first performed as a duo in 2009 improvising musical scores to films by Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton at X-Initiative, Next Years Model series at DIA. Since their initial collaboration, Bassett and Lubelski have continued to draw from their like-minded approach to improvisational music – creating personal interplay with the environmental surroundings to expand on abstraction, chromatic noise, and long form drone. Both Bassett and Lubelski have extensive backgrounds in the East Coast/NYC sub-underground. Bassett has performed in experimental music projects for over 20 years including Un, GHQ, Hototogisu, Double Leopards, and her solo project Zaïmph. Lubelski is best known as a solo artist with eight full-length releases, but she has also been involved in various art-music provocations – Hall of Fame, Tower Recordings, as a member of Thurston Moore’s band, and in her associations with the long-standing German collective Metabolismus. The 2012 release of their first LP Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon on KYE Records, was praised as having “...incredible expanses and delicately menacing interplay with an increasingly satisfying audaciousness upon each subsequent listen.” (Paul Haney, Tiny Mix Tapes). The latest LP, Live NYC, (Feeding Tube Records, June 2017) “Elegantly shows just how much brain damage you can do using only a guitar and a violin... A tale of twinned and lightly fuzzed tones, twirling and blending... The threads of sound absolutely phosphoresce. It’s an incredible mix of motion, stillness and power.” (Byron Coley). The duo will have a new LP release on Drawing Room Records Fall 2019.

Kaori Suzuki and John Krausbauer will present music for voices, amplified strings, electronics, and bell percussion. Their work originates from a shared interest in ecstatic and spiritual musics as well as the avant-garde. Utilizing sustained tones, alternate tunings, long durations/playing endurances, and stroboscopic lighting, their music explores the parameters and possibilities of psychotropic experiential environments rather than the strictly musical.

Rob Millis (guitarist, author, filmmaker, Climax Golden Twins, Idol Ko Si) & Greg Kelley (trumpeter, insurance underwriter, nmperign, Heathen Shame) have performed twice as a duo. One time involving their usual instruments guitar and trumpet in a resplendent display of feedback, the other time involving the Baldwin Fun Machine – an electric organ manufactured in the 1970's and known for creating good times – and a slide whistle run through delay and a ring modulator. Both attempts were considered successful by the participants and the third time is the proverbial charm.

About Wayward Music Series

Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.