Bex Burch & Friends - "As Yet Untitled"

Prototype is so excited to welcome messy minimalist composer, Bex Burch to our stage as part of her USA tour. She'll be joined by Anna Meadors of Joy on Fire (Sax), Nick Afflitto of Thieves in Paris (Trumpet), and Joe Bergen of Mantra Percussion (Perc) for the semi-improvised short evening-length piece, "As Yet Untitled." Poet John-Francis Quinonez starts the evening with their poetry.

We can't wait to see you.
Tix: $20
Door Code: #0123#

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Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, producer and improviser who emphasizes space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterize an ongoing approach she describes as “messy minimalism”.

Burch’s critically acclaimed 2023 solo album, 'There is only love and fear' was released via Chicago’s International Anthem and named The Guardian's Contemporary Album of the Month. She has previously released music as part of Boing! with Leafcutter John, and Flock with Tamar Osborn and The Comet Is Coming’s Danalogue. She runs the label and post-punk band, Vula Viel, and has collaborated with influential artists like Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie and Ben LaMar Gay.

Bex completed an 18-month instrument-making apprenticeship in Ghana from 2008 with master gyil player Thomas Sekgura, a formative experience that gave her a deep-seated respect for Dagaare music and the confidence to pursue a path that reflected her own voice. A restless, questing spirit has informed her career since, from the open-hearted collaborations of her musical releases to the creation of a new xylophone she handmade under Jamie Linwood’s mentorship, tuning its harmonics to maximize the resonances she wanted to hear. – Bex’s music continues to evolve. More is to come as Bex’s wide-eyed approach continues to break new musical ground.

John-Francis Quiñonez is a Queer Writer & Multimedia Artist living & working in Providence, RI, currently a Resident of the Dirt Palace/Board Member for Binch Press & Queer.Archive.Work., co-guardian of Lost Bag Space, chef at Big Feeling Ice Cream, & is thinking a lot about Emerging.

In October 2022, they released their first full collection of Poetry entitled ”Keep Your Little Lights Alive (Poems After Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and Others)” with Write Bloody Publishing.

Their greatest Joy & Fascination is Reading Poems in rooms full of People, and hopes to do so with you soon.

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