Concerts

Nonsequitur and The Frank Agency join forces to present People. Make. Awesome. — a three-part series of pairings rooted in sound curated by Beth Fleenor. The August performance will feature three sonic duo pairings, to be announced at the event. A night of stellar, highly individualistic artists, given opportunity to communicate freely. Each duo set …

Visiting from Miami, Gustavo Matamoros and Rene Barge perform Chapel, an evening-length immersive composition for 6 channels, akin to the sonic explorations they create (along with David Dunn) in the context of Frozen Music Ensemble presentations. The sound world will consist of recorded sounds manufactured by the duo through the manipulation of objects at Audiotheque’s …

For its final night, Substrata Festival is a meeting of far-ranging extremes, embracing harsh ascetic minimalism, spaces of unmoored weightlessness, and the massive and physically terrestrial. Beyond notions of passive ornamental embellishment, the night’s performers are all sculptors of ambient sonic narrative created from the colluvium of sound’s rawest materials. The methodologies varying from the …

Substrata’s second night plays host to the evolving field of electro-acoustic composition in its intersection with fringe pop, folk, improvisation and non-rock forms. Dismantling both the synthesizer and the electric guitar’s central roles and showmanship in rock music for a larger lexicon of expressive frontiers, theirs is a more variegated and polychromatic realization of these …

The inaugural evening of Substrata 1.4 presents a showcase of sound as intimated space. Encompassing the broadest spectrum of instrumentation, from acoustic strings to electric analog hardware to synthesis and pure software application. This spectrum of tools and technique representing a diapason of approaches to guide the listener into auditory perambulations of notional, phantasmal scapes. …