See You When I Get There is Amy Cimini’s first solo viola album. While playing in noise bands and experimental projects for over 25 years, she has developed a sonic palette for the amplified viola that combines overtone-rich distortion with percussive techniques nestled in reverb and delay effects meant to fill large acoustical spaces. This record embraces noise abstraction as much as a tuneful directness, that evokes Cimini’s fellow experimental string players, historical protest musics and her early, enduring love of feminist rock and punk. See You When I Get There is a personal record a long time in the making that pays homage to the people who have shaped its circuitous musical path.

Amy Cimini is a violist, teacher and music writer who embraces anti-authoritarian approaches to power, community and technology in 20th & 21st century experimental music, sound art and auditory culture. She is the author of Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life (Oxford University Press 2022) and co-editor of Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interview (Blank Forms Editions 2020) with composer and theorist Bill Dietz. In other writing, she explores race and digital art curation; debates about feminist music theory, embodiment and epistemology; listening, surveillance and border militarizationShe plays in noise band Necking with Nick Lesley and Nathan Berlinguette as well as Yvette Janine Jackson's Radio Opera Workshop. She currently resides in San Diego, California.

What Happens Has Become Now is Jessica Pavone’s fifth solo viola album and her fourth for Relative Pitch Records. Over the past twenty years, Pavone has been developing solo music based on the pitches of the open strings intended to accentuate the natural sympathetic resonances of her particularly loud viola. Over the years, she has incorporated and experimented with electronic effects to give herself a “partner” to play with and add more texture to her compositions. This album features a track performed on the Sword Viola, one of the artist Ken Butler’s hand-crafted Hybrid Instruments.

Violist and composer, Jessica Pavone, explores the tactile and sensory experience of music as a vibration-based medium. Inspired by processes centered on intuition and instinct, her music channels these ideas by focusing on how music feels when played and heard, integrating her experiences as an instrumentalist into works that transcend time. Although her primary training was in classical music, Pavone has dedicated her practice to exploring alternative avenues for creative musical expression and “has made a career of redefining the possibilities for her instrument” (Steve Smith, National Sawdust Log). Pavone has premiered new music at prominent NYC venues, including the Noguchi Museum, Abrons Art Center, Roulette Intermedium, the Museum of Art and Design, Pioneer Works, Socrates Sculpture Park, National Sawdust, and the Kitchen. Pavone’s albums have been produced by Tzadik, Taiga Records, Thirsty Ear, Out of Your Head Records, Astral Spirits, and Relative Pitch Records.

Additionally, she has released four collaborative duo recordings with guitarist Mary Halvorson. In 2011, she was featured in NPR’s “The Mix: 100 Composers Under 40.” The New York Times wrote that her music is distinct and beguiling; its core is steely, and its execution clear,” and in Wire Magazine, Julian Cowley noted that Pavone [is] not like other composers, she is uniquely herself, and from that stems the improbable strength of her music.“ From ’05 to ’12, she toured regularly with Anthony Braxton’s Sextet and 12+1tet and appears on his discography from that time.

Grants and Commissions: NYSCA (2024), Queens Arts Council (2024, 2022, 2020), NYFA NYC Women’s Fund (2023), MATA Festival (2023), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Emergency Grant, 2021), New Music USA (2015), Tri-Centric Foundation (2015), Experiments in Opera (2013), and the Jerome Foundation (2011). Residencies and Fellowships: Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize (2024), Marble House (2024), Kimmel Harding Nelson Center (2024), I-Park Foundation (2024), Hambidge Fellowship (2024), Loghaven (2023), Ragdale (2022), and Ucross (2020).

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https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/what-happens-has-become-now