porous sonorous: pitsiokos / tomtomtom

Concert

Chris Pitsiokos is a New York–born, Berlin-based saxophonist, composer, improviser, writer, and organizer whose work moves fluidly across experimental and improvised music. After a powerful duo set at the shop a couple of years ago with drummer Chris Corsano, he returns with a solo performance. Tomtomtom, a newly formed North Texas trio comprised of Dallas avant-chanteuse Lily Taylor, Venezuelan-born, Denton-based multi-instrumentalist Miguel Espinel, and Denton's own freak institution Rick Eye, makes its debut this evening.

Doors 7:00 pm
Music 7:30 pm
$10 presale

CHRIS PITSIOKOS
As a soloist has developed a unique voice on the alto saxophone: his expansion of the instrument’s vocabulary has served to multiply its emotive and formal possibilities. He has recorded over 40 albums and has toured in Japan, the US, South America and Europe. Chris has worked with jaimie branch, Otomo Yoshihide, Mazen Kerbaj, Wendy Eisenberg, Nate Wooley, Paul Lytton, Peter Evans, Weasel Walter, and Tyshawn Sorey, among so many others.

TOMTOMTOM
Lily has collaborated with musicians, dancers, performance artists, poets, fashion designers, and visual artists across the Bay Area, New Mexico, and Texas, including Wanz Dover, Gil Trythall, and Black Taffy, among others. She currently collaborates with her husband, video artist Sean Miller, in Locations, and performs with the Dennis Gonzalez Legacy Band.

Miguel is highly motivated by collective musicking and intermedia collaboration. He originally moved to Denton to pursue graduate studies in composition and ethnomusicology at the University of North Texas, and is currently involved in projects including Monte Espina, Oil Spill, Bog, Cacodemon, the Venetian Video Cats from Venus, Orcanaut, Teal Stripe, and The Watermelon Is Not Orange.

Rick is at the core of Denton’s farthest-out music scene, not only through the cornucopia of projects he has been part of (Flesh Narc, Bukkake Moms, Baby Blood, Gay Cum Daddies, Problem Dogg, to name just a few), but also as a concert organizer for more than a decade, a role that in recent years has become central to Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios.

porous sonorous is an artist-run concert series for other musics and further sounds, flowing sporadically and itinerantly across North Texas. It is shaped by a long-standing involvement with The Wild Detectives, forged from half the ashes of Molten Plains, and woven through shifting currents of past and present collaborations with fellow artists, organizers, and venues of different kinds.