Duo and trio improvisation from Stevie Richards + Mike Meanstreetz and Ethan Campa + Jonathan Piper + Ryan Ebaugh, respectively.
Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist whose non-traditional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the singular, most often materialising in a tangle of synaesthesia. Sonically his practice explores and expands upon both more metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded acoustic-acoustic nylon MIDI triggered guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico, Canada and Europe.
Stevie Richards is a DIY electronics and woodwind player and performer currently based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Stevie has performed in Europe, United States, Mexico and Japan and is an active participant in the avant-garde / improvisation environment of Naarm / Melbourne. Stevie has performed in many past and ongoing ensembles worldwide playing noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic music both as a soloist and through deliberate international collaboration.
Dr. Jonathan Piper is a San Diego-based tubist and technologist. His work as a tubist centers on the exploration of sonic and gestural possibilities found at the limits of both the instrument and the performing body. Supported by extended techniques and live electronic processing, he combines elements of drone, doom, noise, free jazz, and contemporary idioms. He performs as a soloist and in a variety of duo projects, including with Michelle Lou (go by land), Ryan Ebaugh (1515), vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Meghann Welsh (Codex Confiteor), percussionist Eric Derr (Company Culture), drummer Nick Lesley, and more. He has recently appeared at Drone Not Drones, High Desert Soundings, and Project [BLANK]'s Working Title.
Jonathan Piper, Ph.D.