FRIDAY NIGHT FEBRUARY 16TH
8pm
Studio4
Maria Chavez(Turntable)/Bill Nace(Guitar) - Duo
Jake Meginsky - Solo Electronics
Madison Palffy - Dance
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Maria Chavez
“Over the last decade, (Chavez) has pursued pristine and thoughtful turntablist work.”- The WIRE

Born in Lima, Peru, Maria Chávez is known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Accidents, coincidence and failures are themes that unite her sound sculptures, installations and other works with her solo turntable performance practice. Routledge Press chose Maria to be on the cover of the latest edition of their Electronic and Experimental textbook that is distributed widely throughout academia. The book is used in Universities and Music programs all over the world as a first year course for students interested in the world of avant garde and electronic sound practice.

Maria regularly teaches workshops introducing students to her turntable practice all over the world and has been a research fellow with the Sound Practice Research Department of Goldsmith’s University of London since 2015.

She presents lectures on sound art, improvisation, multi-channel speaker installation practice, most recently for Rhode Island School of Design (RISD),Stony Brook University, the Contemporary Arts Museum-Houston, Berklee College-Valencia, Spain. 

http://mariachavez.org/

Bill Nace

"Bill Nace is something of an enigma. A fantastic guitarist, improviser, and visual artist, the Western Massachusetts and Los Angeles-based musician seems to have pulled off the rarest of hat tricks: achieving global notoriety in and beyond his field while making some of the most difficult and challenging music around. The guy doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, but he’s spent the last decade touring basements and festivals around the globe, helming a prolific record label called Open Mouth Records, making countless collages and drawings, and collaborating with some of the biggest heads in the free music game, including Yoko Ono, Chris Corsano, Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore, and, more recently, his Body/Head accomplice Kim Gordon. And he’s done it all without gimmicks, shameless self-promotion, or really any shtick whatsoever." Adhoc Magazine
http://adhoc.fm/post/bodyheads-bill-nace-improvisation-youre-always-bou/

Jake Meginsky
http://www.ursss.com/2016/06/jake-meginsky/

Madison Palffy
Madison is a dancer, performer, performance-maker, and visual artist originally from Chicago. Her work is a continual investigation of magic, the senses, mystery, wilderness, and failure. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College where she studied dance, performance, and queer theory. She has had the pleasure of performing in works by Kathleen Hermesdorf, Wendy Woodson, Paul Matteson, Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Katie Martin, Lailye Weidman, and Cathy Nicoli and has performed at venues such as Studio 303 (MONTREAL), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Dixon Place (NYC), Ponderosa (GERMANY), and the Southern Vermont Dance Festival. She is currently living in Western Massachusetts working as the Internship Coordinator at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought and at Contact Quarterly as the Ads and Marketing Director. Madison is a founding member of LOCULUS, a dance and performance collective based in Northampton, MA that creates performances in non-traditional spaces and produces a quarterly journal. 
http://www.madisonpalffy.com/

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