Avant-Garde

RHYS CHATHAM TRUMPET TRIO (featuring Frank Rosaly & David Daniell) Paris-based musician and composer Rhys Chatham has reached legendary status in experimental music circles, best-known most recently for high profile...

The Chicago Underground Duo formed in late 1997 as an organic offshoot of the larger Chicago Underground Collective. The Duo consists of Rob Mazurek (cornet, electronics, piano) and Chad Taylor (percussion, electronics...

Fond of Tigers have been developing a complicated, beautiful sound since 2003. Featuring seven of Vancouver’s leading creative musicians, Fond of Tigers play a layered, nuanced music that explores musical possibilities...

Spread across Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco, Capillary Action are an all-acoustic quintet that cannibalize and intuitively synthesize the sharp-angled ferocity of DC hardcore, the melancholy of...

TONY CONRAD (b. 1940) is one of the most compelling figures in 20th century music, a profoundly influential composer whose radical styles defies textbook definitions and challenge accepted notions of the minimalist...

Lead by Paul Frehner and Jill Ball, the Ensemble will perform Terry Riley's seminal minimalist composition 'In C' (1964), and lend a percussive marimba based interpretation to Philip Glass's 'String...

The Text of Light group was formed in 2001 with the idea to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the American Cinema avante garde of the 1950s-60s (Brakhage's film 'Text of...