Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
MELTYKISS is a Brooklyn-based duo project of drummer Max Goldstein and vocalist Ariel Vera. Meltykiss focuses on guided improvisation based off a conceptual form created collaboratively. The sound of Meltykiss is influenced by the likes of Sun Ra, Chris Corsano, Marcela Lucatelli, Zach Hill, and more blending stylistic ideas based on free jazz and heavy […]
MATTHEW RYALS is a NYC-based synthesist and composer-improviser. He has released three studio albums and a series of EPs on 3OP, SØVN and dingn\dents, and will release records on Infrequent Seams in Fall 2025 and Oxtail Recordings in 2026. Matthew performs internationally and will be featured on High Zero Festival and Ex Nihilo Festival. He […]
KRYS BOBROWSKI and KAREN STACKPOLE, long-time collaborators in the improvising quartet Vorticella, organically formed a duo combining Stackpole’s Gongs with Bobrowski’s Gliss Glass, an invented instrument of her own design that consists of water-filled glass vessels mounted on telescoping stands that are interconnected with tubes and valves. By varying the height of the vessels and […]
Two nights of freewheeling improvised music and creative jazz from some of the scene's most adventurous and exciting ensembles, celebrating three new recordings out this fall on Berkeley's Queen Bee Records. This first evening is devoted to the OAKLAND REDUCTIONIST ORCHESTRA'S debut release, west and east baying representing two sides of the ensemble’s output: a […]
Second night of freewheeling improvised music and creative jazz from some of the scene's most adventurous and exciting ensembles. Celebrating three new recordings out this fall on Berkeley's Queen Bee Records — the 7th, 8th and 9th! — in a series of 12 releases coming this year. Beth Schenck Quintet A wildly creative and original […]
The Rainwater-Shim Duo (pianist Anne Rainwater and flutist Meerenai Shim) performs duos and solos, including Pencilled Wings for flute, piano, and electronic playback by Emma O'Halloran, Greener Grass by Caroline Ansink, 90+ for piano by Elliott Carter, and Miniatures Book 4: Preset Etudes for flute and electronics by Brent Miller. Thomas Carnacki, in the performance […]
HUMMINGBIRD: PHILLIP GREENLIEF, EVELYN DAVIS and JORDAN GLENN make sputtering buzzes with tail feathers in meadows and open forests. Their perches tend to willows and alder from Mexico to 5,000 year old pine forests. They add beauty by attracting audiences to hover, increasing metabolic rates by quoting the odysseys of Pauline Oliveros and Tony Williams. […]
END OF YEAR SERIES BENEFIT SHOW! (INGALLS + SFSOUND + OAK RDCT ORCH + OTHERS) More information soon
BRETT CARSON presents an evening of original compositions. These include Exeunt Ion for solo piano and Game Boy; Three text scores, a series of graphic scores exploring strategies for improvisation based on experimental poetics; and a new piece, Bacterial adhesion onto apatite minerals — electrokinetic aspects for keyboard, percussion, drum set, and electronics. Performers include […]
MOE STAIANO continues to explore works for electric guitar ensembles with his third work-in-progress composition, Music for Eight Guitars (The Parting Gift). This plans to be an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms with eight electric guitars, bass, drums and percussion. He plans to have it feature assertive rhythmic structures and intertwining tremolo structures, […]
HANNA BROBACK + JOHN TESKE + NOEL KENNON (String Trio, Seattle) is an ensemble currently working with sustained frequencies, harmonic structures, and open form composition. This evening, joined by ADAM LION (Vibraphone, LA), they will perform pages from Noel's typewriter score, 13 harmonic weather formations. This music unfolds slowly and attempts to sound a slow […]
Berlin-based double bassist REBECCA LAWRENCE performs Imaginary Light, a program of contemporary works for solo double bass. Through extended techniques and alternative tunings, the sonic compass of the double bass is exposed, expanded and illuminated. Known for her collaborative work as a contemporary and early music double bassist in Europe and the USA, Rebecca is […]