Mika Pontecorvo and Cartoon Justice Present:

NEXT NOW

a celebration in eclectic improvised musics

An evening with three sets:

7:30 PM Key West plays completely improvised free jazz with a high component of invented instruments. Featuring Sung Kim (invented, homemade instruments) and Dave Dupuis (Baritone Koto-gurdy).

8:10 PM Cartoon Justice melds free and modal improv with structured song and experimental noise processes. Featuring: Mika Pontecorvo (guitar/flutes/voice/electronics), Mariko Miyakawa (cello/voice), Kersti Abrams (sax/rhaita), Greg Baker (clarinet/percussion/electronics), Dan Porras (drums), Elijah Pontecorvo (electric bass) and Stephanie Lak (vocals, electronics).

8:45 PM Aaron Bennett’s Electro-Magnetic Trans-Personal Orchestra To quote Aaron: “The members of this ensemble utilize the electro-magnetic field of their collective mind to attain a unitive transcendent state of sonic consciousness and in turn, create sublime and/or unusually expanded sonic experiences for their listeners.” Featuring: Aaron Bennett (sax & compositions), Rob Ewing (trombone), Theo Padouvas (trumpet), Crystal Pascucci (cello), Jeff Hobbs (violin), Bob Marsh (accordion and spiritual guidance counselor), Lisa Mezzacappa (bass), and Joe Lasqo (piano & MSP).

$10 general; $8 students/seniors

NEXT NOW: A Celebration In Eclectic Improvised Musics/Arts The series aims to present emerging artists to new cross-genre audiences. Artists whose performance incorporates improvisation in varied and novel forms. The series takes a post-modern curatorial approach, going beyond the currently popular local trend of avant-jazz to bring together an array of styles both of groups sharing the bill on a particular evening and within the groups themselves, drawing from indigenous and traditional musics, near-popular forms such as avant-rock, post-rock, progressive fusion, freak folk, noise, etc.; and contemporary art music (electro-acoustic, abstract electronic music, conceptual sonic art, chamber, free and avant jazz) and fusions of the above. Future Next Now evenings will bring in additional elements of visual, performance, and multimedia improvisational arts.

Examiner.com article: here