Caroline Davis // Matt Mitchell

A double bill of two solo sets incorporating improvisation: saxophonist Caroline Davis, on saxophone and electronics, and a completely improvised performance by pianist Matt Mitchell.

Caroline Davis performs solo, taking a creative approach to the nexus between saxophone and electronics. Pieces for Caroline’cs performance will include the following selections and will be decided upon spontaneously, given the atmosphere of the room and the people present. The interactive technology used in this performance includes patches developed for the Organelle by Caroline and others (the technobear, shreeswifty, critterandguitari, tony j morton, nobuyasu sakonda, soxsa, varicela, nicky-system, samesimilar, and chrisk in Pure Data) as well as a Boss loop station with mixer capabilities. All the titles and songs are in reverence to bell hooks:

Love as a practice of freedom
Radical openness
Maintenance of commitment
Accept when
Belief in one’s capacity to transform
What it means to listen
Eliminating elimination

Matt Mitchell opens the evening. Following the Obliquity Records releases of his critically lauded and completely improvised solo piano albums Illimitable and Sacrosanctity, Mitchell will play a completely improvised, spontaneous performance on solo piano.

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.