Madison Greenstone / Forbes Graham
Madison Greenstone / Forbes Graham
Monday, October 30, 2023 at 8pm
The Fort Point Lyric Room @BLO
Midway Artist Studios
15 Channel Center St.
Boston, MA
Music at 8pm
Admission: $15 / $10 for members and students (suggested donation)
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Advanced tickets available
Non-Event is pleased to present solo performances by Madison Greenstone (clarinet) and Forbes Graham (trumpet, electronics).
About the artists
Madison Greenstone is a New York-based clarinetist whose ‘beautiful and haunting’ playing ‘creeps noisily away from the void’ (Foxy Digitalis). They perform across a wide array of experimental music contexts as a soloist, improvisor, and chamber musician. Madison’s solo performance practice, exstatic resonances, pushes the limits of innate instrumental expressivities by treating the meeting of instrument and embodied technique as creative of a site of indeterminacy and generative instability. Their approach to the clarinet embraces and instigates chaotic timbral actions, difficult-to-reign sonorities, and the harmonically rich and noisy resonances that have a vivid inner life and movement.
Madison is the clarinetist of TAK Ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen) and can be heard on labels such as Wandelweiser Editions, Another Timbre, TAK Editions, Unknown Tapes, New Focus Recordings, eë editions (AT), and Impakt Collective (DE). Their first solo album, Resonance Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness will be released in September 2023 on Relative Pitch Records.
Forbes Graham is a composer, musician, sound artist, and visual artist whose work explores themes of simultaneity, perceptibility, transformation and collage. He attended American University, studying music composition, in the mid to late 1990s and was involved in the DC and Maryland hardcore scenes, playing in a number of bands and releasing music on his label RiceControl. In the early 2000s, he moved to New England, where he got involved with Boston's free jazz and improvised music scenes. He performed with Michael Pisaro at (the) co-incidence festival in 2017 and has appeared at other music festivals including High Zero, Vision, and The Thing In The Spring. Graham has appeared on over 40 albums, primarily on trumpet, but also on electronics and vocals. He is a member of Mobius Artists Group, a collective of experimenting artists.
