I’m happy to share a bill with Matt Bryant for a First Friday Tuscaloosa event at Marcus & Beatty. Matt and I will alternate solo sets during the night–Matt on ukulele and me on fretless banjo. We’ll both bring the electronics.
Friday, March 6, 2026 Matt Bryant / Holland Hopson Marcus & Beatty 2124 9th St. Tuscaloosa AL 35401
I’m a regular at Marcus & Beatty for haircuts, gifts and clothing. It’s so good to have them supporting music in the neighborhood! You’ll know you’re in the right place when you see the mural on the east side of their building.
Hank Lazer and I are returning to our recent performance celebrating the release of Lazer’s poetry collection Abundant Life. Hank will read selections from the book. I’ll provide some ambient field recording sounds, play my electric clawhammer guitar, and deploy some voice-responsive electronics.
“[Art is] a craft-based tool for the study of consciousness.” — Caroll Dunham
I think this description fits what Lazer and I do together.
Friday, February 13, 2025 5:30pm Abundant Life Lorrie Lane Studio 2420 Gary Fitts Street Tuscaloosa, 35401 Reading and performance with Hank Lazer
We’re happy to be performing in Lorrie Lane’s recently expanded studio on an evening’s program that includes some hands-on art marking, too!
I’m appearing tomorrow at a poetry reading/performance with Hank Lazer at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers to celebrate the release of Lazer’s poetry collection Abundant Life. I’ll provide some ambient field recording sounds, play my electric clawhammer guitar, and deploy some voice-responsive electronics.
Hank and I have been performing together for the last 5 years–less than a quarter of the time represented in Abundant Life. And like the poetry in the collection, our work together continues to change and evolve while circling around a common interest in poetry and sound as opportunity for stillness, presence, attention.
Tomorrow the Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) continues their 30th anniversary season with a concert of new music for solo cello featuring Craig Hultgren. Craig will perform music by Alabama composers including my piece As Safe As If It Were In The Fire for cello and live electronics. Craig performed Monroe Golden’s Fantasy as part of the very first BAMA concert in September of 1995.
After the concert I’ll be part of a short panel discussion about the history of BAMA moderated by arts journalist and composer Michael Huebner. The panel will also include founding BAMA member Michael Angell.
Also, Craig will play a concert tonight at East Village Arts at 7pm featuring music by Davey Williams and Mark Lackey.
I had a great trip to Athens, Ohio, recently for the ClickFest electroacoustic music festival. It was my first visit to southeast Ohio, to Ohio University, and my first time at ClickFest. On my way I had M. Sage’s Tender / Wading and Xexa’s Kissom on repeat.
And I enjoyed seeing giant ragweed on the side of the road.
Fall flowers and milkweed along the edges. One of my creative principles: More Edge!
On the way back I had a quick visit in Columbus, Ohio, with too-long-neglected friends. And then I took a detour through Indianapolis, Indiana, to see family. We enjoyed a visit to Newfields. It’s always great to experience James Turrell’s (Acton) and Robert Irwin’s (Untitled) work in person. I’ve also been thinking about codifying a set of studio colors (see Tom Sach’s COLOR video), so it was fun to encounter Ellsworth Kelly’s 11 Panels.
Newfield’s pollinator meadow is hard to beat, too!
Heading back home I enjoyed Keith LeBlanc’s Major Malfunction and a rainy stop at KMAC in Louisville, Kentucky, for the South Arts 2025 exhibition.
