The Event Horizon concert series features Electronic, Avant Garde, and Experimental music along with the work of live video projection artists. The concerts are always free and open to all.
d/a73 impresario Wright Lagrone has said, “Beard Farm is both the best and the worst name for a band that d/a73 has ever
encountered”. Players Tom Bruce and Karl Fury play stringed instruments, hardware and software synthesizers, Linnstrument
controllers and iPads — all processed through laptop computers, thickness planers, and nuclear reactors. They combine jazz, classical, and a wide variety of ethnic and electronic music influences to create improvised journeys through expanded soundscapes. Spoken word, noise and notes come together to create a unique body of recordings. Karl Fury is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from central New Jersey. His musical background ranges from rock and blues to jazz-rock, world music, ambient, electronic and free improvisation.. Karl performed and recorded for several years in the world music duo Near East. He currently has releases with The Melting Transistor, The EquinoxProject, Quantum Elf and solo works under his own name and as Tars Obscura. He is often heard in well-known electro-music venues and on radio programs throughout the Northeast. Tom Bruce is a musician and sound artist living in Ithaca, New York. He works with a number of collaborators, including Karl Fury, James Spitznagel, Charles Shriner, and Rob Snyder. He has performed solo at the Northeast Electro-Music Festival, at the Mountain Skies festival in Asheville, NC, at MEME in Indianapolis, the Cosmic Crossings series in New Jersey, and at WPRB radio in Princeton, as well as at many events in the Ithaca area. In 2022, he and Rob Snyder took 4th place in an international competition for electronic music created via Internet collaboration. You can find out more than you want to know about him at https://linktr.ee/tbruce0
Ace Paradise is an Electronic Musician, DJ/Producer and Live Performer, who has been specializing in the production of many forms of Electronic Music since the early 1980′s. Ace, having a background of 45 + years in traditional music as a multi-instrumentalist, both acoustic and electronic, has merged his years of traditional music training, with his talents for both Electronic Music and as a seasoned DJ. He is known in many circles, as one of the early pioneers to develop techniques for combining and mixing several elements Live, using hardware synths, looping and samples and various DJ Gear, combined with live musical performance, enabling him to produce a spectacular and unforgettable live sound. More info, www.beatport.com/artist/ace-paradise/322442, www.djrankings.org/DJ-ACE_PARADISE/, soundcloud.com/ace-paradise, mixcloud.com/ace_paradise
KaLi embodies the transcendent power of time and change, producing a music of joy, courage, and hope. Undulating rhythms and patterns of melodies infused with the sensual side of harsh noise are core to their sound, rewarding the listener with inspiration and renewal. Bonnie Kane – saxophone, flute, electronics Tracy Lisk – drums A conductor of energy, dedicated improvisor, Bonnie Kane, is a pioneer in electronic processing for saxophone and flute. She is fascinated by the moment of creation and compelled by the focus required to be in that moment, because of the purity found there. To be a master improvisor, is to really tell the truth. Tracy Lisk is a drummer, painter, and curator who resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An internationally renown percussionist, her background in painting and Brazilian percussion inform the substance of her improvisations while maintaining a fluid, suspended continuity. Find Kane/Lisk (KaLi) Duo recordings @ – bonniekane.bandcamp.com
Admission is FREE