Non-Event Support for Social Change – Online Fundraiser for G|Code House
ONLINE FUNDRAISER FOR G|CODE HOUSE
Non-Event Support for Social Change
Featuring performances & pieces by DAMON SMITH with JEROME BRYERTON (performing works by Cecil Taylor & Benjamin Patterson), JOSEPH ALLRED, LINDA GALE AUBRY & MIKE BULLOCK, AND VICTORIA SHEN
Saturday, June 27th at 8pm
a/v premiere | YouTube
YouTube Link
The Support Series is an monthly series of online fundraisers to raise money for and awareness of local social & racial justice organizations. This month, we're encouraging people to donate to G|Code House. Based in Roxbury, G|Code offers young women of color a safe co-living, working, and learning community where they learn cutting-edge technology skills, gain employment experience and connect with our world-renowned network of mentors, advisors, and enterprise partners.
We urge you to learn more about their important and innovative work... and donate, if you can!
This is the second in a series of online concerts to raise money for social change. Each event will raise money for a different organization working for social and racial justice in Boston and beyond.
About the artists
DAMON SMITH studied double bass with Lisle Ellis and has had lessons with Bertram Turetzky, Joëlle Léandre, John Lindberg, Mark Dresser and others. Damon’s explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic free improvisation. Visual art, film and dance heavily influence his music, as evidenced by his CAMH performance of Ben Patterson’s "Variations for Double Bass," collaborations with director Werner Herzog on soundtracks for Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World, and an early performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
JEROME BRYERTON is a drummer and painter based in Chicago. His artistic expression evolved from years of playing drums in rock, jazz and experimental groups. Performing solo or collaboratively, he's toured and recorded internationally with many notable improvisers. Jerome is also part owner of a large industrial silk screening operation in Chicago.
JOSEPH ALLRED is a Boston-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, experimental composer, and visual artist who is originally from Jamestown, Tennessee. A large portion of his musical output falls into the American Primitive school of original guitar and banjo music, drawing especially from the folk traditions of the southeastern United States as well as from free improvising and avant-garde and minimalist composers such as Arvo Pärt, Charlemagne Palestine, Terry Riley, and Henry Flynt.
LINDA GALE AUBRY is a multimedia artist and musician. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates sculpture, animation, video, painting, porcelain, and electronic music. She creates performances and installations that draw on her mastery of ornamental and decorative techniques, and which support the experience of serenity and self-reflection. She has received support from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and has been presented at Vox Populi Gallery and Fringe Arts in Philadelphia; Wave Farm in Acra, NY; and Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden.
MIKE BULLOCK is a composer, improviser, visual artist, and writer based in Western Massachusetts. Bullock has been performing since the mid 90s at venues across the US and in Europe, including Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden; Instants Chavirés in Paris; Café OTO in London; Experimental Intermedia and ISSUE Project Room in New York City; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and EMPAC in Troy, NY. In June 2015, Bullock received a Performance Grant from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.
VICTORIA SHEN is a New England-based noise musician, visual artist, and instrument-maker. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Shen’s music floods its location acting as a form of sculpture. Her music features analog modular synthesizers (Flower Electronics), contact microphones, and other self-built electronics. These instruments are designed to electronically reproduce chaotic systems, systems which are highly sensitive to small changes in their initial parameters. The resulting music eschews conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of the extreme textures and gestural tones.
