Friday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm
$18 general admission, $15 students/seniors, $12 members
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Brandon Lopez - bass
Steve Baczkowski - saxophone, winds
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TJ Borden - cello
Martin Freeman - synthesizer, electronics
Hallwalls is excited to host an evening of duo improvisations and more, featuring two dynamic, long-running collaborative partnerships together in a rare Buffalo convergence. Join us for an evening of sounds unheard!
Brandon Lopez is a bassist based in NYC. His work is focused on improvisation.
"This is virtuosity in the sense that we hear on this record countless textures from Lopez—extended techniques, bowed strings that unearth wild harmonics, plucked rumblings, and low funk rootings—each conjured from a deep sense of what is being called for in a moment. This is virtuosity as vocabulary, a total command of texture, subtlety, and a depth that can be reached into. It is not the kind of soloistic performativity or frenetic get-it-all-out that characterizes so much free playing—but it is still free." - Cleveland Review of Books
"Brandon Lopez is a complete and uncompromising musician." - Citizen Jazz
His work has found him collaborating and working with the likes of poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten, Gerald Cleaver, John Zorn, The Mat Maneri Quartet, Nate Wooley’s "knknighgh", Satoko Fuji, Zeena Parkins, Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey, Standing On The Corner, Cecilia Lopez, Ash Fure, Joe Morris, Tyshawn Sorey and many others.
Buffalo-based baritone saxophonist/improviser Steve Baczkowski performs solo, in trio with drummer Ravi Padmanabha & bassist Brian DeJesus (BPD Trio), and in frequent collaborations with guitarist Bill Nace, drummer Chris Corsano & bassist Brandon Lopez. A widely-acclaimed trio LP Mystic Beings (with Corsano & Nace) was released by Open Mouth Records in December 2018 and Old Smoke, a live recording with Corsano and Lopez was released on CD by Relative Pitch Records in April 2019 (https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/old-smoke). A new LP Open Door highlighting Baczkowski's 20-year duo collaboration with Ravi Padmanabha was recently released on Padmanabha's Good Karma/Bad Karma Records and the Lopez Trio, with drummer Gerald Cleaver, had its 2nd release on Relative Pitch in 2023. In May 2024 Relative Pitch will release Cheap Fabric, his 1st solo recording.
Tyler J. Borden is a cellist working with, in, and around the constraints of the cello. Formerly from Western NY, he is now based in Brooklyn NY, where he spends much of his time finding ways to exploit the strengths and failures of himself and his instrument. T.J. Borden is a multifaceted sound shaper, noise maker, collaborator and community organizer. As an interpreter, he brings his technical brilliance to his cello playing by working closely with composers in solo works and in group formations like the [Switch~ Ensemble] and the Mivos Quartet. As an improviser, he can be found piling into a shitty car with his bandmates and touring across the country to play in broom closet sized venues and sleeping on strangers' floors. As an organizer, he can be seen putting together shows for experimental artists, most notably co-founding High Desert Soundings, a multi-day festival located in the desert of Southern California's Wonder Valley. more info: www.tylerjborden.com
Martin Freeman is a singular improviser and builder of instruments from Rochester who works predominantly with unpredictable electronics in performance and installation. He has taught electronics workshops for artists and musicians at the Eastman School of Music, Rhizome DC and Hearding Cats Collective. He recently completed an MFA at UB's Department of Art. more info at: mroztronium.blogspot.com
