The Event Horizon concert series takes place at The Rotunda, on the University of Pennsylvania campus. 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.
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is an electric bassist and experimental music artist known for his work with Embryo and prominent experimental musicians. Drawing inspiration from Lockwood, Feldman, Braxton, and Cage, Wells’ pursuits encompass the Chapman Stick, computer aided composition, and ambisonic mixing. Compositions from his “Liberation” cycle are featured as part of res·o·nant, the light and sound installation by artist Mischa Kuball at the Jewish Museum Berlin. He graces stages across the world, performing at renowned venues such as Vahdat Hall in Tehran, Iran, the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, China, the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York, the iconic Globen Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, the vibrant Saxophone Jazz Pub in Bangkok, Thailand, the avant-garde Cafe Oto in London, England, and the prestigious Domicil Jazz Club in Munich, Germany, among many others. Wells’ commitment to innovation shapes the trajectory of experimental music.
Elliott Sharp (e#) is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who leads Orchestra Carbon, SysOrk, Tectonics and Terraplane and whose compositional strategies encompass fractal geometry, chaos theory, algorithms, genetic metaphors and new graphic notation
techniques, catalyzing a synesthetic music making approach. In 2015, he won the Berlin Prize and Jahrespreis from Der Deutscher Schallplatten Kritiks. Sharp received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship from the Center for Transformative Media in 2014. He’s been featured in such festivals as Darmstadt, Huddersfield, and the Venice Biennale. His book, “IrRational Music” published in 2019, blends memoir, cultural discussion and music theory. Sharp’s works include a composition for Hilary Hahn’s Grammy-winning album “In 27 Pieces” and operas “Filiseti Mekidesi” and “Port Bou”. Collaborators include Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Cecil Taylor, Debbie Harry, Hubert Sumlin and more.