Beam Splitter / Jake Meginsky

Beam Splitter / Jake Meginsky
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 7pm

Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street, Boston
Doors: 6:30pm Performance begins promptly at 7pm
Admission: $10 (suggested donation) / free for students and Non-Event members
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Advanced tickets available

Non-Event is pleased to present and evening of improvisation featuring a solo set by Jake Meginsky, a duo set by Beam Splitter (Audrey Chen & Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø), and a trio set by all three musicians.

About the artists

Beam Splitter — Audrey Chen (US) and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (NO) — is a duo for amplified voice, trombone and analog electronics. The duo have been touring globally since 2015, playing close to two hundred concerts in a wide variety of spaces and contexts, bringing their own brand of highly amplified dialog, which is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed. They join together their two individual voices into a distinct language that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal elements of un-processed voice and trombone, while utilizing analog electronics to offset their hyper extended physical play. The duo’s latest album, Split Jaw, was released on Nat Baldwin's Tripticks Tapes in 2023.

Composer/filmmaker Jake Meginsky, a New Music USA award winner and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in both music and film, has collaborated and performed with an extraordinary range of musicians including Milford Graves, Alvin Lucier, Joan La Barbara, Kim Gordon, Vic Rawlings, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Joe McPhee, Thurston Moore, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Paul Flaherty, John Truscinski, Arthur Brooks, and Bill Nace. His most recent release, Trinities, was released on the Poole Music label in the summer of 2023.

This performance is co-presented by Non-Event, MIT Spatial Sound Lab, and the Goethe-Institut Boston