GNEISS (pronounced "nice"), a band from Los Angeles consisting of JEONGHYEON JOO (haegeum) JOSHUA GEROWITZ(guitar, composition), ETHAN MARKS (trumpet, composition), and GEORGIA E. BELL (bass, composition/design), brings a set of composed and improvised music themed on the formation and transition of rock. This is a concert in support of their upcoming self-titled album developed and recorded throughout 2023. Adam Lion opens the night with new and in-progress work.
GNEISS (pronounced "nice"), a band from Los Angeles consisting of JEONGHYEON JOO (haegeum) JOSHUA GEROWITZ(guitar, composition), ETHAN MARKS (trumpet, composition), and GEORGIA E. BELL (bass, composition/design), brings a set of composed and improvised music themed on the formation and transition of rock.
Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), Adam Lion is an experimental percussionist who specializes in vibraphone performance. Interests that guide his music include improvisation, perception, acoustics, repetition, process, immediacy, and spontaneity. Notable projects include his release with Sarah Hennies and Ashlee Booth “The Reinvention of Romance” (Astral Spirits), a residency with New York University composer collective “nevermind the noise”, and his solo vibraphone album “Gilgul” (cmntx). He has collaborated closely with a diverse spectrum of contemporary artists including Harold Budd, bang on a can, and Brian Weitz of Animal Collective. He has received funding from New Music USA, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The North Carolina Arts Commission and has been a featured performer at the Big Ears Festival, University of Chicago, the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the Red Room, MASS MoCA, and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
Jeonghyeon Joo is a haegeum performer and composer based in Los Angeles and Seoul. Her practice includes performance, composition, improvisation, artistic research, collaboration, writing, and teaching. She explores the physical, social, cultural, and political relationship between performer and instrument, frequently collaborating with filmmakers, dancers, composers, and performance artists. Her original performance projects have been supported and presented by the Arts Council Korea and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture and have received the Presidential Award of Korea. Joo holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Performing Arts in the Seoul Institute of the Arts in South Korea and a Program Director at CultureHub.