Livescoring the Silents: A Page of Madness

7 pm doors// 7:30 pm show, Wed. Oct. 30 @ Likewise Community // We’re thrilled to bring back a night of livescoring the silents as Thought Form Collectiive improvises to A Page of Madness, for a one-time only experience at Likewise Community (70 N. College) in downtown Fayetteville. Don’t miss this chance to watch this experimental horror classic from 1926 by Japanese director Teinosuke Kinugasa on the big screen with a live improvisational score. We’ll have a donations drinks & snacks table set up. We can’t wait to resonate with you!

About Thought Form Collective:

At home performing in concert halls, nature preserves, and in parking lots next to dumpsters, Thought Form Collective is a percussion-centered chamber ensemble specializing in experimental and improvised music. Founded in 2019, this New Music ensemble performs pieces ranging from interactive aleatoric works to long-form electro-acoustic improvisations. Through a mix of curated and synthesized sounds, Thought Form Collective now explores the Silent Film Era, evoking the tension between nostalgia and progress. 

Robbie Lynn Hunsinger Workshop: Coding 101 with P5js

Sunday, Oct. 13, 5-7 pm @ 21C Museum Hotel Bentonville - We’re thrilled to present a coding workshop with Robbie Lynn Hunsinger. No experience necessary and all ages welcome! Learn the fundamentals of coding by building colorful interactive animations. You will even be able to draw with your nose! Learn about digital color mixing, how to create and move shapes with code, and how to create interactive artworks with physical input. You will leave with a foundation in computer programming and the ability to create more beautiful codeart.

Please note that this is a text based online coding framework: any type of laptop or a tablet with an external keyboard is recommended. WIFI will be provided and space is limited! The workshop cost is $50. Please reach out about scholarship opportunities.

If you are curious and want to learn more, please check these resources. This is the program we will use in class : p5js.org. This is a beautiful showcase for P5js projects: openprocessing.org

Robbie Lynn is a top professional classical oboist turned coder, composer and creative technologist, multimedia performer, interactive installation artist and teacher. Based in Chicago and Nashville, she has taught music and 4D art at a handful of universities and was a presenter at the Chamber Music America Conference. She has been a featured speaker, teacher and performer at several universities and conferences and has had both art and music work funded by the NEA.  If you'd like to learn more about her adventures with code, check her main website robbiehunsinger.com or find her on IG, FB or Youtube

Gallery Concert: Robbie Lynn Hunsinger

2 pm, Sunday, Oct. 13 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art // Join us for an afternoon with reed-based experimental musician Robbie Lynn Hunsinger. Her journey began as a top notch classical oboist before becoming a composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, media artist, creative technologist and educator. She is a pioneer in oboe performance, interactive installation, responsive media performance and creative technology and one of the few living artists to integrate, solder and code all of these elements herself. She’ll present a workshop at 21C Museum Hotel in Bentonville later that day. If you’d like more information on that, drop us a line!

A proud member of the LGBTQ community and a powerful environmental and conservation activist, Hunsinger is the founder of the now famous Chicago Bird Collision Monitors program, one of the largest and most effective hands on conservation efforts in the world. We can’t wait to resonate with her!

First Thursday Fayetteville: Thought Form Collective

5:30 -7 pm Thursday, Oct. 3, Fayetteville Square | FREE | We’re thrilled to present chamber ensemble Thought Form Collective for Fayetteville’s First Thursday in October! With a theme of technicolor, the group will improvise to silent films in color for this one-time only production! This percussion-centered chamber ensemble works within the realms of both experimental and improvised music to explore the Silent Film Era, evoking the tension between nostalgia and progress. Our longtime collaboration with Thought Form Collective began with a live improv performance to a screening of F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror at LIkewise Community. Keep your eyes peeled. We’re bringing back Live Scoring the Silents with TFC on October 30!!

Gallery Concert: Nikola Radan & Friends

2 pm, Sunday, Sept. 8, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art // Join us for an afternoon with Nikola Radan, a conceptual music composer and flautist who will perform original music from his conceptual album Pictures from the Journeys (Les Images des Voyages). This autobiographical musical story intertwines music cultures from the Americas, Africa, the Balkans, South Asia, and Middle East Asia. 

Radan has been pushing boundaries between music genres and world traditions for the past thirty years in order to find common ground between diverse cultures. His music has been published in dozens of albums and premiered nationally and internationally. Nikola developed a unique technique for making the conventional flute sound like a traditional flute-like instrument from many world cultures. This particular sound has become a hallmark of Nikola’s sound, easily distinguishable in both his personal and group projects.

Our gallery concerts take place at 2 pm the first Sunday of each month now through October.

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Gallery Concert: Danny Kamins + Marcin Bozek

2 pm, Sunday, Aug. 11, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Resonate with us with improvisors Danny Kamins and Marcin Bozek at Crystal Bridges as part of this year’s gallery concerts! Danny Kamins is an improvising saxophonist based out of Houston, TX. His current musical endeavors include playing in various musical ensembles such as FireLife Trio, Relative Dissonance, The Plot, CARL, El Mantis, Prion, and Etched in the Eye as well as directing the jazz program at Rice University. For almost two decades Polish improviser Marcin Bozek has been working intensively individually and collectively in duets, trios and leading orchestras to explore the musical spaces between rhythm and harmony. He sets the air in motion by vibrating it using an instrument. He uses sounds that are not commonly called music. Music is an art.

Our gallery concerts take place at 2 pm the first Sunday of each month now through October.

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Gallery Concert: Andrew Weathers

2 pm, Sunday, July 14, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | We’re thrilled to host composer/improviser Andrew Weathers at Crystal Bridges as part of this year’s gallery concerts! From field recording, prepared guitar, surrealist soundscapes and minimalist composition rooted in drone and repetition, we can’t wait re resonate with you.

Based in the Llano Estacado region of northwestern Texas, Weathers’ work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place, as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice. Apart from his longtime commitment to collaboration alongside a wide swath of figures inhabiting the sonic underground, Weathers is founder and operator of Full Spectrum Records, which has continued to release the works of sundry sound artists and experimental musicians since its inception in 2008 in his home state of North Carolina. On top of frequent credits as a mixing and mastering engineer, he has also produced various projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism.

These concerts take place at 2 pm the 1st Sunday of each month now through October. {{ FREE + open to the public }}

Library Lounge: Er-Gene Kahng + Khemia Ensemble

2 to 4 pm Sunday, June 23 at the Fayetteville Public Library | Violinist Er-Gene Kahng performs with her group Khemia Ensemble as part of the library’s Mountain Street Stage summer concerts series. Hailed by the Columbia Daily Tribune as adding a “fresh dimension” to the concert experience, Khemia Ensemble is dedicated to reflecting broader perspectives in contemporary classical chamber music. With its dynamic instrumentation (soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, two percussion), Khemia’s unique sound world encompasses the presentation of new classical music with a mix of acoustic chamber works, multimedia, and multi-genre influences. This show will feature contrasting solo works from the 20th and 21st centuries written for flute, clarinet, violin, piano, and percussion. This free concert will take place in the Willard and Pat Walker Community Room! Free and open to the public - just show up!

Marisa Anderson w/ Jack Bird & Kelby Clark

7:30 PM doors/8 PM show, June 20 @ The Creamery (216 W. Birch in Rogers) | We’re thrilled to present a night of incredible improvisation with three solo sets from guitarist Marisa Anderson, violinist Jack Bird and banjo player Kelby Clark. They’ll be creating deep resonance in this one-of-a-kind space that was a one-time factory for making cream that’s now home to venue host Ecological Design Group.

Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her deeply original work applies elements of minimalism, electronic music, drone and 20th century classical music to compositions based on blues, jazz, gospel and country music, re-imagining the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, while NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’ . Her work has been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, SPIN, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

Jack Bird is a violinist, improviser, and sound artist originally from the greater New York area. He has studied and worked in a variety of musical worlds including Anglican choral music, Western classical orchestral, chamber, and solo repertoire, and American traditional forms such as jazz and old-time music. He currently focuses on delivering improvised performances on the violin informed by the traditions of free jazz, noise, 20th century classical, and ambient music. After spending 7 years as a working musician in Nashville, Tennessee, he relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is currently based.

Kelby Clark is a composer, improviser, and banjo player from South Georgia. He is inspired
by the old-time music of his home state as well as drone, free improvisation and other
forms of both avant-garde and traditional music from around the world. Clark has released
on labels such as Vaagner, Working Man Lay Down, Garden Portal and Eastern Nurseries.
He has also scored several independent films such as She Drank Vinegar from the River
(2023) and Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room (2023). He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Gallery Concert: Go Find Water

2 pm, Sunday, June 9 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | We’re thrilled to host ambient duo Go Find Water in the modern wing of Crystal Bridges as part of this year’s gallery concerts! They’ll be joined by Karen Castleman of Flyover Contemporary Dance for a one-time performance featuring sound and movement. Go Find Water is a collaboration between musician Tom Schmidlin [Pagination; Home Learning] and musician/sound artist Craig Colorusso. Craig and Tom began their collaboration in 2021 in Northwest Arkansas, performing and recording extended improvised instrumental pieces, accompanying their playing with drones and other sounds created from loops of their performance as it occurs. As such, each piece is by design unique and unrepeatable. The band seeks to create specific shared moments in time, both with each other and, when playing live, with an audience. These concerts take place at 2 pm the 1st Sunday of each month now through October. {{ FREE + open to the public }}