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Thursday April 5, 2012 @ Vox Populi Gallery
Aux at Vox Populi Gallery,  319 N. 11th St., 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, $7-10, 8:00pm. (map)
Nick Hennies (Austin)
Wall Wymyn (Philly)
Ethan Tripp (Philly)

Percussionist Nick Hennies, member of Weird Weeds, interpreter of contemporary experimental music, and composer-performer in his own right comes to Philadelphia Sound Forum for a solo concert. He'll be playing compositions for vibraphone by himself and Alvin Lucier, focusing on psychoacoustic effects. These pieces simply must be heard live in a room to get the full effect of clouds of harmonic resonance dancing in the room and in the ear. Check out some preview audio here.

Opening up are two "emerging" local acts - the violin and homemade electronics duo Wall Wymyn and Ethan Tripp.  The former explores resonances and contrast among closely-tuned acoustic and electronic sounds.  The latter wrings alchemy from assorted electro-acoustic junk.  Check out samples of both below.

Nick Hennies
percussion
(bio)






http://nhennies.com/

Wall Wymyn
electronics+violin
(bio)

Ethan Tripp
electro-acoustic devices
(bio)




nosoundunturned.tumblr.com


Bios:
Nick Hennies is a percussionist and composer from Louisville, KY currently residing in Austin, TX. His work is primarily concerned with redefining and re-purposing the role of traditional percussion instruments through repetition, meditation, and immersion. He received his M.A. in percussion from the University of California-San Diego in 2003 where he studied with renowned percussionist Steven Schick and currently performs with The Weird Weeds, Waco Girls, and the Austin New Music Co-op. In addition to solo work Hennies has collaborated with Arnold Dreyblatt, Radu Malfatti, Jandek, Charles Curtis, Ellen Fullman, Michael Pisaro, and many other composers and improvisers from the United States and abroad. His work as both performer and composer can be heard on Quiet Design, Sentient Recognition Archive, Full Spectrum, Thor's Rubber Hammer, and more. Notable appearances include the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Blanton Museum, Festival Agora (Paris), and the LA Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series.

Coming "soon"

Ethan Tripp is an electro-acoustic improvisor whose work focuses on exploration of the materials of every-day sounds and silence. The principal devices for sound production are simple objects like radios and speakers, accompanied by junk like bicycle spokes and bits of discarded metal. Like Free Improvisation with no technique, Sound Art with no art, and playing sounds largely unwelcome in most areas of music, he seeks to formulate an experience out of the trash of the sonic world, the tension of expectation, and the certainty of unfolding time.

Ethan has been playing music in various forms since high school. After college, lost in the world of small apartments -where it's hard to play typical "band" instruments- and bored with much of the music of his youth, he discovered the world of hacking noise out of second-hand children's toys. With low-fidelity, limitless sounds and dirt cheap accessibility, this love-affair with the sounds of the discarded continues to evolve.

Ethan Tripp lives in West Philadelphia, and documents his sounds and ideas online at nosoundunturned.tumblr.com, and previously at ofsoundmind.wordpress.com.