Doors at 7:30pm

Music at 8pm

For this occasion, Aaron Pond will be debuting compositions for himself and letting themselves schematize spontaneously. He will utilize his throat, his larynx, the false vocal cords, sinuses, teeth, lips, tongue, and other holes for exit and entry of sounds, breaths, objects, thoughts, and spirits. There will be an array of pipes, the horn (french), flutes (nose, overtone, recorders, courting), bassoon, tiny percussion. All will be resplendent.

This is an hour-long solo performance.

Biography

Aaron Pond is a musician, concert promoter, and community organizer active in Philadelphia. His improvisational practice is drawn from early atonal music, the playful spirituality of the AACM, and a South Florida childhood spent in synagogues and swamps. His scholarly pursuits center the universal aesthetic structures of spirit possession and the marking power of ritual. Aaron wishes to find himself in the turbulent seas of sensation.

Paragraph of Self-Promoting Bullshit.

Known for his prolific collaborations and social organization, Aaron has not performed solo since his very first performnace in 2019. In the 5 years that followed (and still follow), he has become an accomplished hornist, learned to make his own flutes, embarked on a study of music which has taken him to the pioneers of early electronic music and the comparative ethnomusicology of spirit possesion practices.

Aaron has several active bands-BORBS, Inverse and Obverse, Argyle Torah, Toro Bravo, and Boldt Fog. His curatorial work has been featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Broad Street Review. He is a graduate of the embattled New College of Florida and given lectures on music at the University of Pennsylvania, Curtis Institute of Music, and Temple University. As a performer/thinker he has closely collaborated with Thomas Patteson, Karen Smith, Toshi Makihara, and Dan Blacksberg. He is the President of the People's Music Supply, and damn' proud of it.