Jon Mueller - The Future is Unlimited, Always

Jon Mueller
friday, march 31, 2023 at 8pm

Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street, Boston
Doors: 7:30pm Performance begins promptly at 8pm
Admission: $15 / $10 for members and students (No one turned away for lack of funds)
Advanced tickets available

Please note, masks are strongly encouraged.

Non-Event is pleased to present a performance of Jon Mueller’s The Future is Unlimited, Always. Due to illness, Junko Fuiwara is unable to perform. Jon Mueller will perform the piece as a solo.

The Future is Unlimited, Always is an examination of time, meditation and loss. In this piece, released in 2022 on the Virtues label as a CD/book, the Wisconsin-based percussionist’s usual repetitive rhythms and textures are replaced with fluid, calm tones, overlaid with otherworldly wails. In live performances of the piece, Mueller employs a variety of gongs, percussion and electronics to create an atmosphere equally as easy to get lost in as it is to be propelled by.

About the artist

Renowned percussionist and drummer Jon Mueller is celebrated for his uncommon technique, rigor and virtuosity. Mueller’s aim has been to move drums, percussion and rhythm from its anticipated backbeat to a central musical focus, something more intuitive and natural than usually imagined. Audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United Kingdom have experienced this idiosyncratic point of view as, paradoxically, both ‘cathartic’ and ‘meditative’. Notable solo performances have taken place at the Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Issue Project Room, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Alverno Presents, Columbia Experimental Music, Festival, SXSW, Big Ears Festival, Hopscotch Fest and Witching Hour Festival. His solo recordings have been released by Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga Records, SIGE Records, American Dreams, and others.