Sound: Ryan Seward & Andrew Weathers + Adam Goodwin
Join us at Blo Back Gallery, this Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 7:00 pm for an evening of improvised sound with a duo performance by Ryan Seward (drums, oscillator, transducers) and Andrew Weathers (lap steel guitar, tenor saxophone), and a solo performance by Adam Goodwin (double bass). Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; $10 suggested donation.
Ryan Seward is a musician, composer, and artist living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His work is situated within and across a number of forms, including composition, improvisation, installation, performance, phonography, photography, sculpture, and videography.
Andrew Weathers is a composer and improviser based in Austin, Texas. His work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place, as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice. His projects and performances span the idioms of field recording, prepared guitar, surrealist soundscape, and minimalist composition rooted in repetition and drone. Apart from his longtime commitment to collaboration alongside a wide swath of figures inhabiting the sonic underground, Weathers is founder and operator of Full Spectrum Records, which has continued to release the works of sundry sound artists and experimental musicians since its inception in 2008 in his home state of North Carolina. On top of frequent credits as a mixing and mastering engineer, he has also produced various projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism.
Adam Goodwin (b.1986) is a composer, double bassist and visual artist based in Berlin, Germany.
He received degrees in classical and contemporary double bass performance from the University of North Texas (BM, 2009) and University of California San Diego (MA, 2012), as well as studying composition at both universities. He is active as an interpreter of contemporary and classical music as well as organizing his own creative projects throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Goodwin’s compositions often place a heavy emphasis on the use of harmonics, overtones and microtonality on string instruments, as well as using non-idiomatic and unconventional sounds as compositional elements, resulting in a vast universe of resonant textures reflecting elements of drone music, extended just intonation, minimalism, free improvisation and noise. His compositions often include graphic notation, text instructions and conceptual ideas intertwined with a more traditional approach to musical notation.
His work frequently explores elements of physicality and mental state during performance, as well as addressing socio-political and environmental issues.
