Four Solos and a Stellar Quarter, Friday, Art@12

Four Solos and a Stellar Quartet:

Forbes Graham, Stephan Moore, Carver Audain, and Andy Hayleck

Friday, January 28th 8 pm

at Art @12 12 Farnsworth St., Boston

admission free - suggested donation $10

Join Studio Soto in the Fort Point Arts Community space for a special concert featuring artists from Boston, New York, Providence and Baltimore as they come together for a mini-tour with this stop in Boston. Graham and Moore are well-known in the Boston scene, and it is always an engaging and unexpected surprise to encounter their music. For this event, there will be four 15-20 minute solos and then the musicians will form a quartet for the finale.  Here are their essential bios:

Forbes Graham is a  performer and a composer of music and sound. His

main instruments are trumpet and laptop computer. He was born in Silver

Spring, MD, grew up there and currently resides in the suburbs of

Boston. He has been playing music for almost 24 years and explores a

variety of themes in his work including numerology, water, poetry,

rhythm, and noise. Festival appearances include High Zero, Festival of New Trumpet,

Vision Festival, and The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music.

Stephan Moore is a composer, performer, audio artist, sound designer

and curator based in Brooklyn and Providence. His creative work

currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvised solo

performances, sound installation works, scores and sound designs for

collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs for unusual

circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott

Smallwood, has performed widely and released several recordings over

the past decade. He has created custom music software for a number of

composers and artists, and has taught workshops and numerous

college-level courses in composition, programming, sound art and

electronic music. He curates the annual Floating Points Festival at

Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, where he also serves on the Art

Advisory Board. From late 2004 to mid-2010, he performed over 250

concerts with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, serving as their

sound engineer and music coordinator, and as a touring musician.

Carver Audain (b 1981) is a sound artist who focuses on creating

immersive sonic environments. He produces work comprised of

pre-recorded instrumental and environmental recordings, resulting in

an array of textured fields. In live performances he integrates a

variety of pre-recorded source material as well as sounds of the

physical space for the use of spontaneous arrangement, live sculpting,

and sampling. He has presented works at venues such as The Red Room,

Zebulon, Pyramid Atlantic, and ISSUE Project Room, and has performed

as a part of the Sonic Circuits Festival, and the Floating Points

Festival. In 2009, he was the recipient of ISSUE Project Room's

Emerging Composer's Commission grant care of the Greenwall Foundation.

He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Andy Hayleck is an electro-acoustic musician who lives in

Baltimore, Maryland. He uses a Paia modular synthesizer and microphones

in improvisations and compositions, utilizing the resonance

characteristics of a variety of materials. Recordings include: "Two

Gong/Wire Pieces" (Ehse), "Gong/Wire" (Earlids), "Various Recordings

Involving Ice" (HereSee), and "The Disappearing Floor" (Recorded).

Directions: take the Red Line to South Station and then cross the Fort Point Channel bridge.

Farnsworth Street is one block up from the Boston Children's Museum on the left. 

Art@12 is next to the Flour Cafe.