Bowerbird is pleased to present MSHR with opening set by Grace Villamil.

In collaboration with MUSICA PRACTICA / ELETTRONICA VIVA, this performance brings together electronic sound artists who investigate cybernetics, and embodied attunement via custom hardware and lighting networks to create immersive soundscape ceremonies.

Grace Villamil is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, performance, imagery, and embodied archives. Her practice tends to how infrastructures of language, urban noise, sport, and pedagogy shape how the body listens over time. Drawing from heritage: karaoke culture, basketball, and environmental sound, her work proposes alternative modes of listening that resist pitch discipline, virtuosity, and assimilation.

Current projects include mumulak; Interaural Space, a community installation turned WPRB radio broadcast on noise, migration, and oral history; ⎤⎤⎤ (Superpang & Notice Recordings); Her work has been presented with Morphine Records, Fridman Gallery, and Black Mountain College Museum, including community projects with IONE and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. She’s performed works by Raven Chacon and collaborated live-visuals with Tyondai Braxton. Presentations include Amant, Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal, Kiosk Radio, BXL, The Broad / REDCAT, Issue Project Room, among others.

MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems.

Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with a life-like current.

They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.

MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, as an offshoot from the collective Oregon Painting Society.

The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.

Event Horizon presents Sonic Foundry, Neil Cippon and Tim MotzerSonic Foundry is a collaboration between the Dorety Brothers’ Dimension Step and the creative imagination of guitarist Karl Fury. The blending of the two camps is improvisational, intuitive, comprehensive and logical. They share similar interests, yet there are enough differences to create a contrast and diversity in the music. Karl’s love for the ambient can be heard in his guitar playing and use of numerous standard and home made electronic sound devices. That said, his technical skills on guitar can bring space and ambient music to another level bordering on the Prog Rock realm. As Dimension Step, Christopher uses synths, acoustical piano sounds and voice. Arthur uses an array of synthesized sounds inspired from old analog synths to modern keyboards. In addition to that, there is a generous use of synth percussion. The group as a whole has roots in yesteryears ambient and electronic origins as well as the old school prog rock. Combine Karl’s use of guitar to generate a plethora of sounds, combined with the spatial keyboards, melodic and arpeggiated approach of Dimensions Step and you have a broad canvas with an assortment of brushes, that paints a cosmic landscape ranging from sparse and delicate to dense and, rhythmic. Truly a factory of sound.

Neil Cippon is a Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist and visual artist best known for his ambient soundscapes and immersive video projections. For ambient Music, Cippon explores ambient atmospheres and soundscapes primarily through a six-string electric bass

After two decades of world touring, 17 solo guitar soundscape albums, and a multitude of stunning collaborations including over 100 albums of credits, Tim Motzer continues to “traverse manifold territories in music” (Guitar Player magazine). Tim is a sonic pioneer and widely known for his distinct textural acoustic-electro guitar voice utilizing looping, bowing, electronics, and prepared techniques. He has collaborated with numerous musical luminaries including David Sylvian, Burnt Friedman, the late Jaki Liebezeit, poet Ursula Rucker, King Britt, Questlove, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Vernon Reid, Isaac Hayes, David Torn, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Markus Reuter, Pat Mastelotto, and Percy Jones, among others. Tim’s solo concerts are filled with wonder and surprise that take the audiences on imaginative and surreal journeys in cinematic sound. A longtime improviser, Tim’s concerts and recordings are created in-the-moment. Composing in real-time, his process is fascinating to watch and listen to as it occurs. Through improvisation, new musical material is discovered and continues to be explored with concentration, listening, and responding – letting the music unfold as it will and following where it goes instinctively. As a solo artist, Tim has performed at WXPN’s studio for Stars End radio show, The Gatherings at St. Mary’s Church, Ardmore Music Hall, Sellersville Theatre, The Cutting Room (NYC), The Strand Theatre (Hudson Falls, NY), Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA), ProgStock (East Rutherford NJ), and international festivals in Wroclaw, Poland, and Berlin, Germany. He has appeared as a special guest for acclaimed progressive artists including Gong, Stick Men (featuring Tony Levin), Tu-Ner, and Soft Machine. Throughout his distinguished career, Tim has also performed at major international festivals and venues including Montreal Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Madison Square Garden, The Apollo Theater (NYC), Ronnie Scotts (London UK) and Elbephilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany). His music has been heard in film and television including True Blood and the feature film Miami Vice. On his own label, 1k Recordings, Tim has released multiple albums of his immersive, improvisational solo work including: Soak, Euphoria Cycles, Beacon, ditties & deities, Luminous, Inside, Pilgrimage, Live at the Sellersville Theatre, Angels and Demons, among others. For additional information about Tim, visit: timmotzer.com. Visit Tim’s label 1k Recordings here: 1krecordings.bandcamp.com

Admission is FREE

S/He Speaks Vol. 4: Voices of Women & Trans FolxBook Release & Open ReadingCo-hosted by co-editors Tom Daubert and Cassendre Xavier, this remarkable series returns for its fourth year.1pm-5pmWith readings by several writers whose work appear in the anthology, including: Bianca Ambrosino • Michelle Balogh • Lorelle Becton • Annarae Costa • Kenna Devalor • Jeanne Andrea DiGrazio • Maggie Dillow • Shelby Fallin • Kieran Fu • Quinlan Gilbert • Rebecca Grant • Juicy Ha • Liz Kerr • River Jean-Noel • Kyle Laws • Jennifer Maloney • Delia Matara • Victoria McGivern • Aloe Michelson • Teresa Burns Murphy • Ada Pendill • Nyk Roberson • M. J. Simmering • M. J. Stanley • Ariana Nicole Suits • Samantha Szumloz • Pam Ward • Allison Whittenberg • Nicole Zelniker • Linlang ZhaoFREE, open to the public, and followed by an open reading 

Fire Museum Presents: Paolo Angeli:

Sardinian musician Paolo Angeli’s professional career was spent deep in the avant garde, exploring post-rock, experimental opera, and more. His style was influenced heavily by that of guitarist Giovanni Scanu, who was a major proponent of the classic Sardinian canto a chitarra style. The combination of inputs inspired Angeli to create his own instrument: an 18-stringed hybrid of guitar, baritone, violoncello, and drums, adorned with hammers, pedals, and even propellers operating at various speeds. Working closely with craftsman Francesco Concas, Angeli created an instrument that enables an altogether new type of performance combining, referencing, and transcending free jazz, folk noise, and minimal pop.

"Paulo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While suffused with Mediterranean cadences, Angeli’s original pieces encompass flamenco, jazz, Baroque, post-rock and new music. He plays a prepared Sardinian guitar of his own invention, a fantastical 18-string hybrid combining elements of guitar, cello and drums.

A feast for the eyes as well as the ears, Angeli in full flight is an astounding sight, as he bows, strikes, hammers, plucks and strums an instrument with strings going in all directions and foot-pedal-controlled motorized propellers. With sympathetic strings creating shimmering drones, he adjusts tunings on the fly to create exquisitely lapidary, orchestral music using electronic effects in real time (he eschews loopers, creating every sound in the moment).

It’s not surprising that this singular musician has improvised and collaborated with masters such as Pat Metheny, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins, and Phillip Greenlief. Angeli’s music may be unclassifiable, but it takes no expertise to recognize its strange and extravagant beauty"-SF Jazz

venue is wheelchair accessible.

Admission is FREE; donations appreciated.