Joanna Mattrey / Wendy Eisenberg + Ryan Sawyer / Sad Sax / Suddering Words
Wed, 12 Mar 2025 (EDT)
08:00PM - 10:30PM
The Avalon Lounge
29 Church St
Catskill, New York 12414
$15 ADVANCE / $20 DOOR
Joanna Mattrey is a NYC/Dublin based violist, composer, improviser, and multimedia artist, whose works blend installation, video, sound, and movement, and are often site-specific. Her compositions use multimedia elements to create visual and sonic environments that convey the themes of transformation, memory, politics, social connection, loss, and spiritual journeys. Working in free improvisation, new music, and classical music, she uses extended techniques, modern compositional approaches, and electronic alterations to challenge conventions in sound. Mattrey has performed with icons Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Threadgill, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, Miya Masaoka, and The Crash Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Irish National Opera.
https://www.joannamattrey.com
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Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Garden Portal, they also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Allison Miller, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana, and the Contemporary Music Review.
https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/
Born in 1976 in San Antonio, Texas, Ryan Sawyer started playing drums at 11, learning his craft through an early exposure to not only rock and jazz but also the colloquial conjunto, zydeco, and punk rock. He moved to New York in 1997 to pursue his interest in improvised music. Ryan has played alongside Marshall Allen, Boredoms, Thurston Moore, TV On The Radio, Gang Gang Dance, Nick Zinner among others.
https://ryansawyer.bandcamp.com/
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Lea Bertucci is a NYC based experimental musician whose work bridges performance, installation and multichannel activations of acoustic space.
http://lea-bertucci.com
Kyle Forester is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the band Crystal Stilts.
https://kyleforester.bandcamp.com/album/kyle-forester
Matt Bauder is a saxophonist and composer who has studied with Ed Sarath,Anthony Braxton, Ron Kuivila and Alvin Lucier.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/matt-bauder/
Will Epstein is a composer/songwriter/improvisor from New York. He makes music for film, dance and installations in addition to releasing records under his own name and High Water.
https://fatpossum.com/collections/will-epstein
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"Suddering Words" is unattainable gibberish in its perfect form. There will be songs, news, stories, manipulated cassettes, and some in-studio visits by demons AND angels, and it all takes place in a village of airwaves dominated by slittering sounds and suddering words.
Joanna Mattrey is a NYC/Dublin based violist, composer, improviser, and multimedia artist, whose works blend installation, video, sound, and movement, and are often site-specific. Her compositions use multimedia elements to create visual and sonic environments that convey the themes of transformation, memory, politics, social connection, loss, and spiritual journeys. Working in free improvisation, new music, and classical music, she uses extended techniques, modern compositional approaches, and electronic alterations to challenge conventions in sound. Mattrey has performed with icons Tyshawn Sorey, Henry Threadgill, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Billy Martin, Elliott Sharp, Miya Masaoka, and The Crash Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and Irish National Opera.
https://www.joannamattrey.com
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Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Garden Portal, they also perform in the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Allison Miller, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana, and the Contemporary Music Review.
https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/
Born in 1976 in San Antonio, Texas, Ryan Sawyer started playing drums at 11, learning his craft through an early exposure to not only rock and jazz but also the colloquial conjunto, zydeco, and punk rock. He moved to New York in 1997 to pursue his interest in improvised music. Ryan has played alongside Marshall Allen, Boredoms, Thurston Moore, TV On The Radio, Gang Gang Dance, Nick Zinner among others.
https://ryansawyer.bandcamp.com/
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Lea Bertucci is a NYC based experimental musician whose work bridges performance, installation and multichannel activations of acoustic space.
http://lea-bertucci.com
Kyle Forester is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the band Crystal Stilts.
https://kyleforester.bandcamp.com/album/kyle-forester
Matt Bauder is a saxophonist and composer who has studied with Ed Sarath,Anthony Braxton, Ron Kuivila and Alvin Lucier.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/matt-bauder/
Will Epstein is a composer/songwriter/improvisor from New York. He makes music for film, dance and installations in addition to releasing records under his own name and High Water.
https://fatpossum.com/collections/will-epstein
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"Suddering Words" is unattainable gibberish in its perfect form. There will be songs, news, stories, manipulated cassettes, and some in-studio visits by demons AND angels, and it all takes place in a village of airwaves dominated by slittering sounds and suddering words.
G Lucas Crane is a sound artist, designer, performer, and musician whose work focuses on slow media, media/memory confusion, sonic mind control, and time skullduggery. His cassette-tape based archival sound practice explores the wild liminal spaces of hybrid analog aesthetics and new performance techniques for allegedly obsolete technology. His haunting analog composition style has been lent to a wide range of bands and projects over the last 25 years.
Ric Royer is a writer of performance and a performer of writing. His latest book, Niagara Falls, NY, was published by Pig Roast Publishing in 2023. He currently lives in the Catskills where he runs Model City Books.
https://open.spotify.com/show/3dTI83VXjZTfoZsuaW8eNg
https://open.spotify.com/show/3dTI83VXjZTfoZsuaW8eNg