A triple-solo evening moving from the pianism of Matt Piet to D Wibowo’s immersive “Dangdut Stereo”, and concluding with the synthesis of Omaha-based drummer and computer musician Phill Smith.
8:30 pm - Matt Piet
9:15 pm - D Wibowo
10:00 pm - Phill Smith
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
About The Artists
Matt Piet returns to Elastic Arts in a solo context for the first time in seven years, expanding upon the vignette improvisations featured in his 2021 Amalgam release “(pentimento).”
D Wibowo is a real-time interpreter of thought and sound, channeling multiple meanings through spatial presence and sonic modulation into waves of bodily sensation. Using handmade instruments and analog stompboxes, she layers Dangdut—a distinctive dance music genre—and samples from archival Indonesian horror cinema, both transgressive mediums embraced by women and queer artists, seeking to resurface and remember histories often overlooked. She plays with indeterminacy as a mode of resolution and revolution.
Phill Smith (he/him) is a drummer, improviser, and software engineer living in Omaha, NE. His musical approach utilizes open improvisation, extended techniques, and real time software systems to generate spontaneous sound worlds, all filtered through the influence of the new music, free improvisation, and avant-rock traditions. Phill's drumming has been described as "restrained but propulsive" (Byron Coley, The Wire) and his compositions have been described as "high velocity, quasi-grindcore feedback music" (Jon Fielder, KLANG). He makes up half of the working free-improv duo Smith & Jessen (with saxophonist Kyle Jessen) and has performed with improvisers such as Oscar Escalante, Damon Smith, Robbie Lynn Hunsinger, Jack Wright, Stacey Barelos, Bob Bucko Jr, Seth Andrew Davis, and Kevin Cheli and as a collaborator/sideman with groups including No Thanks, Pink Neighbor, Mesonjixx, Katie Sin, and Tom Bartolomei. Phill has appeared on dozens of recordings as both a solo performer and a collaborator, and was selected for the fifth iteration of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Community Tracks program as well as appearing at festivals such as Omaha Under the Radar, 80/35, Petfest, Mission Creek, and ex-nihilo in Guanajuato, Mexico.
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- Next month, 17th July, 08:30 pm, Improvised Music Series: Mad Myth Science, Dammann/Hunsinger/Kwan/Stein in Chicago
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