Saturday, March 8
Balance
andPlay
Gleb Kanasevich
Doors 7:30pm | $12-$20 suggested
The Detroit duo Balance is a hometown favorite that fuses knowledge and reverence of multiple musical traditions with forward-looking creativity and open ears that results in a sound that is satisfyingly musical, but fresh and adventurous. Like their music, pianist Michael Malis and multi-wind player Marcus Elliot are warm, open and thoughtful, and Balance is the perfect expression of their personalities and friendship. Their collaborations include such heavy hitters as Gerald Cleaver, Phil Ranelin, William Hooker, Marcus Belgrave, Doug Hammond, Briano Eno, Rod Williams, Talib Kwali, Shigeto and many others. Conjure, their 2022 release on Two Rooms, is ready to go into its third pressing—making it the label's best-selling record to date.
Contemporary chamber duo, andPlay, is committed to expanding violin/viola duo repertoire by commissioning new works and collaborating with living composers. The New York City-based duo of Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola, formed in 2012, and has since commissioned over forty-five new works. Recently, andPlay has developed a violin/viola version of Alvin Lucier’s Love Song, where the instruments are connected with a cable in order to pass the bowed vibrations from one instrument to the other, in an interplay of sympathetic resonances. Their second album, Translucent Harmonies, was recently released on the label Another Timbre, with works by composers Catherine Lamb and Kristofer Svensson.
Gleb Kanasevich’s new solo project “We only have but a moment” delivers a highly intimate experience through its sonic purity and psychoacoustic intensity. Conjured just with extremely still clarinet playing and a six-speaker pure wave setup, the set creates a warm, secluded corner for individual reflection and existence in a “space with no walls.” It’s a seemingly subtle test of physical endurance for the performer that still flows effortlessly throughout. An ecellent addition to Michigan's creative music scene, Kanasevich ran a small improvised and experimental music label, Unknown Tapes, for a couple of years during the height of Covid and has played at major DIY events and venues throughout the country, like High Desert Soundings, Indexical (Santa Cruz), Interference Series (Flagstaff), Collision (Pittsburgh), Coaxial Art (Los Angeles), and more.
Wednesday, March 12
Thollem Infinite-Sum Game
BoxDeserter Ensemble
Doors 7:30 pm | $12-20 sliding scale
“Thollem inhabits a world uniquely his own, rhythmically, harmonically and formally. A true original."
–Terry Riley
“Thollem displays a chameleonic ability to adapt to suit whatever musical context presents itself..there is more than one way to access the infinite.”
–Daniel Spicer, The Wire
Thollem is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher. He has toured throughout North America and Europe as an itinerant artist for two decades, performing, teaching and collaborating in myriad situations across the idiomatic spectrum. Thollem’s known in concentric circles as an acoustic piano player in the free jazz and post-classical worlds, as the lead vocalist for the Italian agit-punk band Tsigoti, and as an electronic keyboardist through a multitude of projects. His lifelong interest has been to work with people from all walks of life, bringing artists and communities together in ways that may create something uniquely valuable to everyone involved. He is currently focused primarily on his multimedia collaboration with New Mexican visual artist ACVilla, his solo piano work Infinite-Sum Game, and workshops on the collaborative process.
At Trinosophes we are excited to present a solo performance by Thollem, followed by BoxDeserter, his Detroit-based, large ensemble with Joel Peterson and a varying personnel that has over the years included Faruq Z Bey, Michael Carey, Skeeter Shelton, Marko Novachcoff, Abby Alwin, James Cornish and many others.
Photo courtesy the artist's website. All rights reserved
Saturday, March 15
Skeeter Shelton’s Spectrum 2
featuring Ali Colding
Doors 7:30 pm | $10-$20 suggested at entry
Saturday, April 12 Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri
Transylvanian Dance (ECM) Release Show
with photos and wax cylinders from the archive of Béla Bartók Doors 7:30 pm | $16 advance or $20 at entry Purchase tickets now
On their second ECM duo album, Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the early 20th century, collected and transcribed numerous pieces from Transylvania. For the duo these songs have become “springboards and sources of melodic material” for arrangements “that capture the spirit of the original yet allow us to improvise and bring our own world to them. If you go deeper into the source material, new vistas open up. These folk songs teach us many things.” Recorded live in October 2022 in the context of the Retracing Bartók project in Timișoara, these performances also bear testimony to the finely attuned understanding that Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri have achieved in their long-running musical partnership.
Not only was Béla Bartók one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, but he also was the father of ethnomusicology as a comparative science (along with fellow composer and friend Zoltan Kodály). For this tour, Ban and Maneri are traveling with the original wax cylinder field-recordings that Bártok made in Transylvania at the dawn of the recording era in 1909-1917, as well as a player to listen to them with. They will also display photos of the field recording expeditions from Bártok's personal archive.
Brìghde Chaimbeul (Scotland) is a leading purveyor of experimental Celtic music and the Scottish smallpipes; a bellows-powered set of bagpipes with a double-note drone. She has devised a completely unique way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the instrument. The constancy of sound that creates a trance-like atmosphere, played with enticing liquidity. Her most recent album Carry Them With Us features close collaborations with Ann Arbor native and Motreal-based saxophonist Colin Stetson. She also featured on Caroline Polacheck’s 2023 album and soundtracked the 2025 Dior Cruise. New album due on Glitterbeat Records in 2025.
Photo courtesy Jelmer De Haas |
