Performance: Moon Unit

2/3 members of Moon Unit (Olivia Katz and Steph Tamas) will perform a set of free improv and premiere two new works: “(un)becoming” by Dylan Dukat and “Mapped of Scars Along Interior Skin” by Dani Elizalde.

Doors: 7:30pm

Music: 8pm

Suggested Donations: $5+

Moon Unit is Olivia Katz, Steph Tamas, and Rob Karpay.

Olivia Katz is a radiant, engaging, and dynamic cellist, improviser, teacher, and composer with a passionate interest in contemporary classical music. Olivia strives to create an interactive, inventive, and accessible environment in which the audience is encouraged to experience classical music, art, and beauty through a new lens. In addition to musicians and composers, Olivia collaborates with playwrights, singers, painters, actors, sculptors, and poets in multiple contexts and is dedicated to bringing artists’ visions to life. Currently in Boston, Olivia privately teaches many cello students in the greater-Boston area, regularly performs and records around the city and along the East Coast, composes [mostly] text and graphic-based open-instrumentation pieces for various groups and individuals around the U.S., is on the administrative board of New Music Mosaic, and is the administrative assistant for the Boston-based contemporary ensemble Hinge Quartet. Olivia is in three ensembles around the East Coast: Moon Unit–an eccentric multi-instrumentalist trio that specializes in free improvisation; pomo—an ethereal cello, voice, and electronics trio based in New York City; and Semiosis Quartet–a Boston-based string quartet dedicated to presenting a captivating and diverse contemporary classical repertoire.

Steph Tamas is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser based in New York City. His saxophone playing is primarily in the contemporary/living music field which promotes premiering new works, collaboration, improvisation across all styles, and performance art. As a composer, most of his work is conceptual and encourages a love for learning and laughing. Outside of music, Steph enjoys weightlifting, basketball, comedy shows, and exploring.

dylan dukat (b. 2000) is a korean-american composer, improviser, and educator. their work has been performed by departure duo, rhythm method, eugene difficult music ensemble, and boston conservatory wind ensemble, and selected works can be found in the catalog of dulcamara press. they are currently on faculty at the boston conservatory high school composition intensive, and are former faculty at the eastern u.s. music camp, where they worked as head counselor and composition instructor. dylan also performs as part of the improvisation duo pixelated labyrinth with saxophonist ryan waller.

Dani J. Elizalde is a digital noise musician and performance artist working primarily in the Boston area. She is grown from radical cyborg and mestiza politics. Her work seeks to imagine a perverse but liberated future as it will have emerged from within the broken pieces of our shared present. By working within and between various borders policed by the agents of racial capitalism she becomes a mystic nature digitalized. Documentations of her work can be found on her youtube channel (Dani J. Elizalde) and future performances are often announced on her instagram account (@dani.the.j).

UVA’s Overlook Gallery is located at 175 Washington St., Brighton, MA 02135 – inside of the large historically preserved church. The gallery is on the lower level of the building. There is an accessible ramp in the rear of the building and an elevator inside. For parking, please park on Washington St.