Fred Moten & Brandon López Duo and Noah Campbell Ensemble
fred moten & Brandon LóPez DUO and NOAH CAMPBELL ENSEMBLE
wednesday, February 5, 2024, at 8pm
The Foundry
STEAM set performance space
101 Rogers Street
Cambridge, Mass
Music at 8pm (7:30 doors)
Admission: $20 / $12 for members and students
No one turned away for lack of funds
For information about accessibility call the Foundry at 617-998-2063 or email susanna@nonevent.org.
Non-Event presents an evening of jazz, improvisation, and spoken word with the Boston-area debut of the duo of poet & cultural theorist Fred Moten and bassist Brandon López, plus a performance by the Noah Campbell Ensemble, featuring saxophonist Noah Campbell, trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum, and an unnamed bassist.
About the artists:
Fred Moten and Brandon López have been playing music together since 2018. They recently collaborated in June 2024 at the Silo City Reading Series (an immersive, multidisciplinary event at a complex of grain silos along the Buffalo River) in Buffalo, NY. They recently released their second album with drummer Gerald Cleaver on Reading Group, titled the blacksmiths, the flowers. .
Fred Moten is a cultural theorist and poet creating new conceptual spaces that accommodate emergent forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics, and social life.
Brandon López is a Puerto Rican/American bassist, composer, and improviser working at the fringes of contemporary music. His playing has led him to work with the luminaries of the contemporary avant garde like Fred Moten, Gerald Cleaver, and John Zorn. He was a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic and has been the recipient of numerous awards by organizations like the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Jerome Foundation.
Noah Campbell is a tenor and soprano saxophonist from Richmond, Virginia, who is now based in Providence, Rhode Island. Campbell aims to reflect the tradition, future, and fluidity of improvised music in his playing. In addition to music, Campbell is a PhD Candidate in Political Theory, where he studies the intersection of Black freedoms, identity formation, nation, and agency.
Taylor Ho Bynum is a musician, teacher, and writer, with a background including work in composition, performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, production, organizing, and advocacy. His expressionistic playing on cornet and other brass instruments, his expansive vision as composer and conductor, and his idiosyncratic improvisational approach have been documented on over twenty recordings as a bandleader and over a hundred as a sideperson. His past endeavors include his Acoustic Bicycle Tours and his stewardship of Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Foundation. Bynum has worked with other legendary figures such as Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylorand currently enjoys playing with friends in collective ensembles like his duo with Tomas Fujiwara, Illegal Crowns (with Fujiwara, Benoit Delbecq, and Mary Halvorson), and Geometry (with Kyoko Kitamura, Tomeka Reid, and Joe Morris), and as a sideperson in groups led by Fujiwara, Reid, Jim Hobbs, Bill Lowe, Bill Cole, and William Parker, among others. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Baffler, Point of Departure and Sound American.
