Elka Bong (Walter Wright and Al Margolis) + Sandy Ewen + Irman Peck + Jack Wright and Ben Bennett Quartet + Al Margolis and Jim Strong duo
Al Margolis ... is some sort of evil genius working with sources radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination.” ~ Massimo Ricci
Walter Wright is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer programming, music, and video performance. His focus is on “improvisation as a way of being present in the world.”
Irman is a cello, bass and electronic music improvisor, composer and producer, active and involved in live performance since 1975.
Sandy Ewen is An experimental guitarist, artist and architect based in Brooklyn NY, Ewen's guitar playing playing is centered around found objects and extended techniques. She performs solo and in many diverse musical and multi-media collaborations. Ongoing projects include duo with a Damon Smith, an all-female large ensemble, the trio Etched in the Eye, and a duo with Tom Carter called Spiderwebs.
Jack Wright, an American saxophonist based in Philadelphia, has been playing freely improvised music exclusively since 1979, after a period of political activism and academic involvement. In the 1980s he planted the seeds of free music on long road trips across the US, the first musician to do this. He came to Europe, especially Berlin, where he stayed for long periods of time in the mid-80s, touring in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In the late 90s he was influenced by reductionism, and renewed his visits to Berlin and then Paris for this purpose in the early 2000s. (Europe and Japan Tours since 2002) . He plays regularly at his Spring Garden Music house in Philadelphia, but most performing is on the road. At 80 he is still touring as much as ever.
Percussionist Ben Bennett has developed a commanding and highly personal synthesis of both traditional and extended techniques which takes the lineage of jazz, free-improvisation, and experimental music as its foundation. In searching for an expanded sonic palette, and fluid movement between disparate timbres, he has distilled the drumset into a compact assortment of drumheads, stretched membranes, and other objects which become multi-functional when placed in different physical relationships to each other, and activated by striking, friction, circular-breathing, and other techniques.
Jim Strong deploys a frangible batch of crackling, wheezing avant-folk-drone vignettes, using DIY instruments to obscure the faintest traces of pop with peculiar tonalities and ratcheting, mechanical rhythms. - Boomkat