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CUSP PRESENTS: TAMARISK // MOVEMENT AND SOUND COLLABORATION

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Sunday, April 16
Convivium 33 Gallery, 1433 E 33rd St, Cleveland
Doors at 7:30, music at 8:00
$15 suggested donation, no one will be turned away for lack of funds

Tamarisk is Christina Carter (Charalambides), Andrew Weathers (Andrew Weathers Ensemble), and David Menestres (Polyorchard, Eugene Chadbourne).
https://tamarisksuns.bandcamp.com/album/plays-a-word-for-sun

David Menestres is a double bassist, improvisor, composer, radio host, and writer. For the last ten years he's been the leader of Polyorchard. For the last twenty-three he's been collaborating with Eugene Chadbourne. His bass playing has been described as "seductive" (The Wire) and "something akin to staring an abyss in the face – and taking the plunge – full on, head first into annihilation” (FreJazzBlog).

https://davidmenestres.com/
https://polyorchard.bandcamp.com/

Christina Carter co-founded the group Charalambides in 1991. Ever since then, she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice and lyric. She currently resides in Austin, Texas. Christina's latest releases are the Tamarisk Plays A Word For Sun CD (Waveform Alphabet), the Nighte Pin Down The Dust CS (mappa) and the solo voice album Librarie (Many Breaths).

http://christinacarter.bandcamp.com
https://charalambides.bandcamp.com/

Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Littlefield, TX. His work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music and Land Art. Weathers studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

A consistent presence in the underground music scene over the past decade, Weathers’ work covers a wide spectrum from solo acoustic guitar to electronic noise. He also performs and records regularly with Tender Crust, Wind Tide, Satin Spar, Tamarisk, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Tethers and Real Life Rock & Roll Band. Weathers also produces recordings for the Full Spectrum, Other Minds, and Rural Situationism record labels, curates the Longitudes music series at CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, TX and works as a freelance mixing and mastering engineer.

https://andrewweathers.com
https://andrewweathers.bandcamp.com

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The movement and sound collaboration will feature a group of three movement artists, practitioners of contact improvisation and three musicians with backgrounds in free improvisation.

"Contact Improvisation (CI) is a movement form that involves connection between other bodies in an exploratory and improvisational way. CI invites play, deep listening, weight sharing, balance, falling, etc. It can be slow and meditative and/or athletic and with momentum. There are patterns and practices to learn and it’s also very improvisational and open."

Movers:
Emily Liptow
Chrissy Martin
Brian Schultis

Musicians:
Bbob Drake, electronics
Stephan Haluska, harp
Max Hyde-Perry, bass