Sunday, October 18
1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, music 8PM
$15 suggested donation
No one will be turned away for a lack of funds
Jessica Pavone
SplinterMount
Queens, NY–based violist and composer Jessica Pavone explores the tactile and sensory dimensions of music as a vibration-based medium. Guided by intuition and instinct, her work foregrounds how music feels in performance and perception, integrating her experience as an instrumentalist into compositions that transcend conventional notions of time. Pavone has dedicated her practice to expanding expressive range of the viola, “making a career of redefining the possibilities for her instrument” (Steve Smith, National Sawdust Log), and her music has been presented at NYC venues including Abrons Art Center, Flux IV, ISSUE Project Room, The Kitchen, the Noguchi Museum, Pioneer Works, Roulette, and Socrates Sculpture Park, and at international festivals such as the Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal), Jazz Festival Saalfelden and Wels Unlimited (Austria), and Klangbad (Germany). Pavone has released albums of her music with Tzadik, Taiga Records, Thirsty Ear, Out of Your Head Records, Astral Spirits, and Relative Pitch Records. Additionally, she has released four collaborative duo recordings with guitarist Mary Halvorson (2019 MacArthur Fellow). From ’05 to ’12, she toured regularly with Anthony Braxton’s Sextet and 12+1tet and appears on his discography from that time. In 2011, NPR featured her in “The Mix: 100 Composers Under 40.” The New York Times wrote that her music is distinct and beguiling; its core is steely, and its execution clear,” and in Wire Magazine, Julian Cowley noted that Pavone “[is] not like other composers; she is uniquely herself, and from that stems the improbable strength of her music.“
https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/.../is-in-the-air
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SplinterMount is olula negre (cello/voice), Torstein Johansen (bass), Alex Henry (sax), and Grace Harper (piano). The group explodes the atomic centers of tone, timbre, and texture, reassembling the shards into a cohesive, emotive whole. SplinterMount was born from the musical incubator that is the monthly Outlab improv sessions at Cleveland’s Bop Stop. The quartet pieces together the multiple influences brought by each member, layering them to craft a sound that uses the language of free improvisation, while constantly pushing against the boundaries of that language.