OBP Music Series

Friday October 30 * doors at 6:30, music at 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Rhizome DC (6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012)

Off the Beaten Path Music Series presents…

Classical guitarist Jeremy Lyons performs the expansive, 30 minute expressionist excursive extramusical ecstatic escapade, Two Virginian Ballads on Themes of Human Sedulity (2016-17) by microtonal sixth-tone composer Lewis Krauthamer. This performance will feature live projected animation developed by the composer (without AI assistance). 

Saxophonist Tyrone Page performs selections from James Young‘s True Fluorescent Skeleton, an exploration of memory, machinery, rust, ghosts, cybernetics, and neon while pushing into the utter sonic horizon of the tenor saxophone. James Young (composer) and Tyrone Page, Jr. (sax), got to know each other through musical projects in and around the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD. A couple of degrees later and they began this nearly four year adventure working on the Fluorescent Skeleton. The idea for TFS was sparked through an encounter with Jasper Johns’s Regrets (2012), a room-sized art work of false starts and dead ends: paintings, drawings, and prints intermingle with the tools that made them and sketches that preceded them – all pointing to the same subject. This skeleton is similarly arranged. Each track orbits the same single, musical theme, converging narratively and harmonically onto a single melody. Each track is a possibility for development, an abandoned waypoint from a spectral core. Ty is pushed to the extremes of his technique, building grooves of pulsed multi-phonics, marking the limits of breath and endurance, and channeling intense, patient focus into expanding the acoustic universe of the saxophone. 

Peter Kibbe performs several compositions for amplified cello and looping pedal, including works by Tom Johnson, Judah Adashi, Donald Erb, and John Cage, in an attempt to expand the dimensionality and temporality of one player into many simultaneous iterations.