Featuring LADONNA SMITH AND MISHA FEIGIN; GOOD NOISE BAD NOISE; DUET FOR THEREMIN AND LAP STEEL; MONTANA SKIES.

LaDonna Smith is a veteran improviser and visual artist whose work spans three decades. The Birmingham, AL native plays the viola and violin in a completely unique fashion that employs classical and extended techniques, and she has toured internationally and has performed at every major improv festival in North America.

“A virtuoso violinist, teacher, and co-founder of The Improvisor ("the international journal of free improvisation"), she is the image of feminine empowerment, the female criminal in pursuit of the ecstatic, potent, subversive and transcendent.” - Kelly Burnette, Perfect Sound Forever

Born and raised in Moscow, Misha Feigin is known as one of Russia’s premiere guitarists. After immigrating to the United States in 1990, he’s continued to build up a reputation of being a masterful improviser with a palette of various ethnic idioms and styles, a compelling storyteller, and an award-winning poet. He’s performed at the Kennedy Center and the WOMAD World Music Festival and was featured on American Public Radio’s Mountain Stage show.

Good Noise Bad Noise are a loose collective of improvising musicians, sound artists and video artists based in South Cumbria and Sheffield, UK. They play a mixture of electro-acoustic music and drone based free improvisation, mixing processed field recordings on laptops with live violin and live visuals.

“Good Noise Bad Noise are sensational at surrounding the listener with all these various odds and ends, ranging from Pandora's Box chaos to an entrancing industrial sonance” – EXP/AM review

Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel is a collaboration between Scott Burland and Frank Schultz of Atlanta, Georgia, creating a combination of sounds from two non-fixed-pitch instruments in an improv environment with a disregard for traditional styles. Their rich textures, swooning collages, and hypnotic pulses intend to drench the listener like a warm bath in the aural abyss.

“I love this music!” – Rhys Chatham, legendary avant-garde composer and musician

The husband/wife duo of Montana Skies seamlessly mix classical and rock music,
with nimble fingerstyle and flamenco guitar playing from Jonathan Adams and fiery cello (both acoustic and six-string electric) revelries from Jennifer Adams.

“[Montana Skies] is a new ensemble with a tremendous passion for the music they bring to their audience.” – Fingerstyle Magazine

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