Anderson / Gerowitz / Surendran & Anything!

Sunday 3 November 2024 • 8pm

$10

Join us for a night of improvisation featuring two trios. Up first is Anything!, featuring Shravan Surendran (Drums), \ Nathan Andre (Sax, Guitar, Electronics), and Mike Meanstreetz (Nylon-Electric Guitar). Closing out the night will be Casey Anderson (saxophones), Josh Gerowitz (Electric Guitar), and Shravan Surendran (drums). You read that right: this show features two sets of the illustrious percussive sounds of Shravan Surendran. Not to be missed!

Casey Anderson

Casey Anderson (they / them) is designing and repurposing technologies to activate participatory practice, primarily involving explorations of sound, in diverse cultures and communities. Performances, exhibitions, and residencies include MOCA - Los Angeles (CA), ISSUE Project Room (NY), STEIM (NL), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), Mass MOCA (MA), The Walker Art Center (MN), and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (CA). They co-founded, and co-edited (with John P. Hastings and Scott Cazan), the Experimental Music Yearbook, and own and operate a wave press. They currently live in Los Angeles, California, co-run Trade School with Arden Stern, and teach at KAOS Network, UCLA, ASU, and ArtCenter College of Design.

Josh Gerowitz

Joshua Gerowitz is a composer, performer, improviser, and guitarist who resides in Los Angeles. His work is concerned with live human interaction, the juxtaposition of premeditation and spontaneity, as well as the fickle nature of our perceptual senses. He has written and performed music that involves everything from traditional instruments to bottom-shelf beer tastings, knife sharpening, ping pong, and surfing. Gerowitz has performed in many different settings and locations including but not limited to Teatro Manzoni, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Paradise Rock Club, REDCAT, Bowtie Project, Clockshop, Firehouse 12, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. His recordings have been referred to as “eccentric and original work of multidimensional and captivating music” (Vital Weekly), and he has been called “a creative soul with hugely impressive chops, as his keen vision is assertively concentrated on blazing newer trails” (All About Jazz). Gerowitz is a cofounder (along with Georgia Bell) of SatanNotSatan (a community based multi-disciplinary artistic salon founded in 2014). He holds a B.M. in guitar performance from Berklee College of Music and an M.F.A. from CalArts in Performance/Composition.

Anything!

Anything! is Shravan Surendran (Drums), Nathan Andre (Sax, Guitar, Electronics), and Mike Meanstreetz (Nylon-Electric Guitar).

Anything! was formed 2022 in a collision of freeform musical traditions and trajectories, their spinning combination a tumult of the razed as risen. With all ears converging on the horizon, action in the fore dances precariously the precipice and parallax of perspectives in group improvisation.

Shravan Surendran

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