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Saturday 1 February 2025 • 8pm
Duos & Trios
Oracle Egg, Los Angeles , CA US
$15
an excerpt from Wadada Leo Smith's Cosmic Music

Three sets of improvised music in duo and trio formats!

  • Set 1 José + Wilfrido

  • Set 2 Ana + Jack + Jakob

  • Set 3 Matt + Melissa

Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío is a performer-composer whose work traverses the space between social structures, individuality, spontaneity, and explores resonance in physical as well as cultural space.

Jakob Heinemann is a bass player, improvisor and composer from Madison, Wisconsin. He now lives in Burbank, and is interested in (sound) ecology, sociality, materials and communion.
José Fernando Solares is a Mexican improviser, saxophonist, composer, and sound artist. He explores improvisation beyond listening, delving into the perception of time-space and existing in multiple realities. Trained in Classical Saxophone Performance, José's musicality extends to genres like ska, salsa, timba, jazz, contemporary music, and free improvisation, as well as interdisciplinary projects.
Jack Herscowitz is a Los Angeles based composer, improviser, and sound artist whose work enacts presence, full-body engagement, and relationality within our isolating and disembodying zeitgeist of obsessive digital attention. He engages and often hybridizes multiple musical and non-musical practices including instrumental composition, dramaturgy, electroacoustic improvisation, installation, landscape film, object performance, sampling, text, and communal sound making.
Matt LeVeque (b. 1996) is a percussionist, composer, and improviser based in Los Angeles. His work orbits around questions of intimacy, relationality, and the opposing forces of nostalgia and futurity. He is currently pursuing a Performer-Composer DMA at the California Institute of the Arts, where he studies with Tim Feeney, Nicholas Deyoe, and Michael Pisaro-Liu.

Wilfrido Terrazas (Willy/he/él) is a San Diego-based Mexican flutist, improviser,
composer, and educator whose work explores the borderlands between
improvisation, musical notation, and collective creation. He is a member of
Generación Espontánea and Liminar, and has performed more than 400 world
premieres, written over 80 compositions, and recorded more than 50 albums, eight
of them as a soloist or leader. Wilfrido has presented his work in 22 countries. He
co-curates the Semana Internacional de Improvisación, a festival in Ensenada, his
hometown, and is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California San
Diego.

Melissa Achten is a Los Angeles based performer and composer using the harp as a diaristic tool for channeling cathartic expression. Her compositions directly engage the listener, challenging the boundaries between body, instrument, and sound in search of nuanced meaning. Melissa's performances often employ a surrealist narrative, incorporating objects and costumes. She has premiered work in New York, Germany, Copenhagen, Montréal, and London, performing in abandoned water towers, cemeteries, haunted mansions, and other liminal spaces. Melissa is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Oracle Egg, an artist-run incubator for experimental music and performance in downtown Los Angeles, which she runs with her partner, Eli Klausner.