Brandon Lopez/Chuck Roth/Dennis Sullivan Trio & Erica Dicker/Aaron Pond duo

Co-presented with People's Music Supply:

Brandon Lopez , Chuck Roth & Dennis Sullivan Trio:

Brandon López is a New York-based composer and bassist working at the fringes of jazz, free improvisation, noise and new music. His music has been praised as “brutal” (Chicago Reader) and “relentless” (The New York Times). From the New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, Lopez has worked beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music. Lopez was awarded the 2018 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room and 2018 Van Lier Fellow at Roulette Intermedium and 2020 Jerome Residency Roulette. He was a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic in Ashley Fure’s “Filament” and a number of works with John Zorn, including Zorn's 35th anniversary of “Cobra.” He’s had the pleasure of working regularly with Nate Wooley, William Parker, Paul Lytton, Jooklo Duo, Leila Bordreuil, Mette Rasmussen, Justice Yeldham, Tyshawn Sorey, Peter Evans, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Gerald Cleaver, Man Forever, Joe Morris and many others. He currently leads his own ensemble, The Mess with Chris Corsano and Sam Yulsman, and works extensively as a soloist.

"The palette of sounds Chuck Roth achieves with the guitar is moving. Not even a volume pedal, just two hands and six strings. I enjoy being hit by brief and unexpected melodies and then taken back to completely abstract landscapes. I love hearing a Stratocaster in this context; it isn't its usual place, its sound is so unique, and it adds an extra beauty to it all. The music is raw and fresh; I can hear how Chuck is working to make it happen, which makes me feel part of what is being developed. It can be aggressive at times and is definitely powerful. Rhythmic motives are set and shot down fearlessly. It keeps you there, engaged, wanting to see where the next turn takes you. It is such an enjoyable ride!"- Luciana Bass

Based in New York City, Dennis K. Sullivan II is a percussionist, composer, and electronicist, focusing on new and contemporary music. His music has been performed across the globe by the International Contemporary Ensemble, yarn/wire, New Thread Quartet, DECODER, Ensemble Adapter, Hypercube, and Dal Niente in venues such as the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), The Stone (NYC), Nymusikk Bergen (Norway), Omaha Under the Radar, Splendor (Amsterdam), and the Edmonton Fringe Festival (Canada). He is a founding member and core performer in Radical 2, a classification-defying duo that explores the use of theatric, vocal, percussive, and prototype electronic mediums, and Popebama, an experimental duo that applies text, electronics, and high-energy performances to non-traditional sounds. In the world of improvisation, he has shared the stage with luminaries such as Brandon Lopez, Erin Rogers, Peter Evans, Tom Rainey and Dana Jessen. An advocate for the new music community, Sullivan successfully curated an annual series of theatrically driven new music, bringing together classical music, theater, rock, heavy metal, and film at Jack (Brooklyn) from 2015-17.

Erica Dicker & Aaron Pond duo:

Violinist Erica Dicker works in a wide variety of musical settings, bridging the realms of notated and improvised music. Erica lends her creative voice to the Brandon Seabrook String Society, Blood Luxury, and her electro-acoustic trio Vaster Than Empires. Taking Auspices (Tubapede Records), her “knockout solo debut,” [Bandcamp Daily] features her own solo compositions for violin that explore extended techniques and alternate tunings, yielding music both familiar and strange. Erica is a founding member of the horn-trio Kylwyria. With hornist John Gattis and pianist Mabel Kwan, Kylwyria commissions adventurous chamber music for this unique instrumentation, enabling luminaries such as Eric Wubbels and Katherine Young to make invaluable contributions to the repertoire.

Erica is, perhaps, best known for her work with composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton as a performer and collaborator as well as an educational ambassador for Braxton’s non-profit Tri-Centric Foundation. Erica writes about and curates performances of Braxton’s work, most recently coaching members of Tactus (Manhattan School of Music) in performance practice and lecturing on analytical approaches to Braxton’s music at Columbia University. Additionally, Erica has toured with Braxton internationally, appearing at festivals such as Berlin Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim Festival (Belgium), Jantar Festival (Poland), Akbank Festivali (Turkey), Skopje Jazz Festival (Macedonia), the Venice Biennale, and Warsaw Autumn Festival.

Aaron Pond:

Originally, a classical musician, I stopped performing conventionally notated music in college, and dedicated my singing to the trees and birds of Sarasota Bay. It was there that I connected with something greater than myself. After moving to Philadelphia in 2018, I fell in love with free improvisation, world music, and the larger scene which was unfolding here. In 2021, I picked up the horn again and have been ripping it ever since. My improvisational practice is drawn from early atonal music, the playful spirituality of the AACM, and a South Florida childhood spent in synagogues and swamps. My scholarly pursuits center the universal aesthetic structures of spirit possession and the marking power of ritual. I wish to find myself in the turbulent seas of sensation.

In 2026 People's Music Supply will be conducting workshops of Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music. Find out more about these upcoming workshops tonight.

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