Event Horizon Series presents Bill Fieger, The Time Merchant, The Guitar Pilots
The Event Horizon concert series takes place at The Rotunda. It features Electronic, Avant Garde, and Experimental music along with the work of live video, laser and analog projection artists. The concerts are always free and open to all.
Bill Fieger is a local composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music and the host of The Event Horizon Concert Series. He has recorded electronic music under the name Oblivious Solitude and has also recorded and performed as part of Stares to Nowhere and Mayakara. This performance will be an all acoustic set of improvisations loosely based on the Raga musical form. The goal is always to create a music of mystery (tone-magic). An example of Bills acoustic work can be found here. Bill will be performing on Fretless acoustic Guitar.
The Time Merchant weaves sparse, atmospheric compositions that resist easy categorization. Preferring to stay in the shadows, the artist focuses on crafting sound environments that challenge and invite, creating moments of quiet intensity and open-ended reflection. With a minimalist setup and a singular vision, the work is a personal exploration of space, mood, and sonic texture.
Guitar Pilots (Art Cohen & Harrison McKay) was formed to perform electronic space music on guitars. Their music consists of long structured improvisational pieces which transport the listener to the depths of space while focusing on each precious unfolding moment. Art Cohen’s sequencer-like echoed guitar figures provide rhythmic propulsion while Harrison McKay’s synthetic pads and loops build a foundation for both guitarists to soar in melodic flights. Singing glissando blends seamlessly with plucks and twangs and sonic blasts from interstellar space. Following the trail blazed by Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Prog, and the Berlin School, Guitar Pilots carve out their own sonic territory that is both organic as the ground underneath and as far-reaching as a distant pulsar. Art Cohen has been a fixture in the Philadelphia music scene for over 35 years as both a performer and an audio engineer. Fluent in guitar, bass, and keyboards, he has performed at concert venues and radio studios throughout the Delaware Valley and brought his music to Toronto, New York and other cities in the Northeast. He has released CD’s with Guitar Pilots, The Ministry of Inside Things, Delicate Monster, CubiZm, Lessick & Lincoln & Cohen, Waves of Violet, Men from When, and as a solo artist. His music ranges from electronic space to ambient to folk-rock to psychedelic rock to traditional folk to experimental to spoken word and beyond – sometimes within the same performance. Art has cultivated a unique guitar style drawing on influences including Garcia, Gilmour, Hendrix, Gottsching, Fripp, and Pinhas. Harrison McKay is perhaps best known as the guitar half of The Tangent Project, the Philadelphia area synth & guitar duo who over the past decade have graced the stages of all the region’s important electronic spacemusic venues. He coaxes an extended pallet of sounds from his guitar through the use of synths, effects processors and loopers. In addition to his work with The Tangent Project and as a solo electronic musician, McKay has performed extensively with local pop and progressive rock bands.
Admission is FREE