For the first time, we've added an extra show for the season: We're having FOUR shows with TEN new performers who've never played at Cosmic Crossings before!
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Alex Gaylon
Alex Gaylon makes music for relaxation and/or rage, channelling sound, noise, and vibration steeped in improvisation. The music is always a unique experience, whether you like it or not.... and we hope you like it! He streams live on twitch at twitch.tv/karmalizing, and you can find his archive at https://www.youtube.com/@Karmalizingsound, and short clips at
https://www.tiktok.com/@alexgaylon.
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Danielle Nia
Danielle Nia, based in Philadelphia, is a composer and performer, with a deep passion for electronic music and experimental sounds. Danielle finds inspiration in pioneers like Wendy Carlos, Vangelis, Manami Matsumae, and Suzanne Ciani. Danielle’s journey into modular synthesizers blends her experience with keyboard synthesizers, mallet percussion, composition, computer programming, and circuit bending experiments. She strives to combine the complexities of electronics with a delicate expression of beauty through sound. Discover more at daniellenia.com.
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Smomid
S.M.O.M.I.D (String MOdeling MIDi device) is a project by Nick Demopoulos, who is a musician, instrument builder and international touring artist. As Smomid, he utilizes instruments he has designed to create audiovisual performances. These instruments create sound, emit light through high powered LED displays embedded in the instruments and control video animations.
As a guitarist Nick Demopoulos worked with NEA jazz master Chico Hamilton and recorded on the albums The Inquiring Mind, Revelation and Euphoric. He
also released recordings with Exegesis, a group that mixes jazz and electronic music. He has worked for the U.S. State Department as a cultural diplomat, performing in Bahrain, Yemen, Oman, U.A.E and Kuwait. Other artists he has performed and/or recorded with include Vernon Reid, Camille Brown, George
Bohannon and Jimmy Owens.
There are four full length albums of music created with Smomid and Pyramidi instruments: Cyber Solstice (2022), Pyramidi Scheme (2019), A Smoment in Time (2017), and Rhythms of Light (2015).
Nick has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Film Society, Montreux Jazz Festival, LACMA, the National Geographic Museum, the Museum of Technology, the Whitney Museum, Hamberg Jazz Festival, the Phoenix Festival, and been featured with his self designed instruments on the Discovery Science Network, Guitar World, Create Digital Music, BOMB magazine, and Metal Injection among other media outlets.
www.smomid.com
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The event will be held at Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing Church at 268 Washington Crossing Pennington Rd, Titusville, NJ 08560. Admission is $10 (cash only), with all proceeds to benefit the UUCWC, which has kindly provided the venue for the series. Doors open at 7:30 pm.
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