MATTIE BARBIER/ADAM LION/TIM FEENEY AND ETHAN MARKS/KOZUE MATSUMOTO
an evening of improvised music touching on texture, silence, noise, and rhythm
Friday March 6th
doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$15 ADVANCE tickets | $20 DAY OF SHOW | $10 STUDENT tickets with ID
Mattie Barbier
Mattie Barbier is an LA based musician and sonic researcher focused on experimental intonation, latent acoustic worlds, and the physical processes of their instrument. Their playing has been described by the LA Times as being "of intense, brilliant, virtuosic growling that gave the striking impression that Barbier was dismantling the instrument while playing it," by the Wire as “exploring the nooks of instrumental tone far beyond the reach of most mortals,” and by the New Yorker as being a "diabolically inventive trombonist-composer."
Tim Feeney
Improviser, composer, and interpreter Tim Feeney seeks to explore and examine the possibilities inherent in unstable sound and duration. Tim began working in this thread in 2002, within Boston’s community of improvisers interested in austere combinations of sounds and silences, and has since performed and recorded with musicians throughout the United States and abroad. He frequently collaborates with artists including the trio Meridian, with percussionists Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart, pianist Annie Lewandowski, cellist and electronic musician Vic Rawlings, vocalist Ken Ueno, saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar, banjo and electronic musician Holland Hopson, trumpeter Nate Wooley, sound artists Jed Speare and Ernst Karel, video artist Jane Cassidy, and many others.
Adam Lion
Offering “a tone so pure it is almost a sine-wave” (The Wire), Adam Lion is a percussionist concerned with improvisation, composition, and performance. Based in Los Angeles, his work has been featured in The New York Times, Pitchfork Media, Artforum Magazine, and Bandcamp Daily. In 2025 Lion performed over 40 concerts in 21 states, travelling to all regions of the contiguous US. 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 "When a Line Bends" . He has collaborated closely with a diverse spectrum of contemporary artists including Harold Budd, Brian Wietz of Animal Collective, bang on a can, Laura Steenberge, Tim Feeney, and Nief Norf.
Ethan Marks
Ethan Marks is an experimental trumpet player and producer based in Los Angeles. He is interested in the collision between body and instrument, the instrument-as-interface, and the physical manifestations of sound. Much of the sounds he explores are similarly physical, subtle, and often otherwise overlooked. His work is usually improvised, is sometimes silly, and has involved sundry preparations like feedback, video, noise, household objects, power tools, and plundered recordings. Marks is active within the LA experimental music community as a performer and producer, and he frequently collaborates with many of its members and organizations.