2/3 members of Moon Unit (Olivia Katz and Steph Tamas) will perform a set of free improv and premiere two new works: “(un)becoming” by Dylan Dukat and “Mapped of Scars Along Interior Skin” by Dani Elizalde.
Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm
Suggested Donations: $5+
This multi-instrumentalist trio (Olivia Katz, Stephen Tamas & Robert Karpay) make up Moon Unit: a genre-bending and boundary pushing ensemble that specializes in free improvisation. Moon Unit’s beliefs are based upon questioning and challenging the unspoken expectations of modern art and music by expanding sonic possibilities and reimagining stage presence. By composing in real time, Moon Unit creates an intimate and unrepeatable experience among the musicians, the audience, and the space. Moon Unit is grounded in sincerity, deep and active listening, absurdity, and unfiltered expression.
dylan dukat (b. 2000) is a korean-american composer, improviser, and educator. their work has been performed by departure duo, rhythm method, eugene difficult music ensemble, and boston conservatory wind ensemble, and selected works can be found in the catalog of dulcamara press. they are currently on faculty at the boston conservatory high school composition intensive, and are former faculty at the eastern u.s. music camp, where they worked as head counselor and composition instructor. dylan also performs as part of the improvisation duo pixelated labyrinth with saxophonist ryan waller.
Dani J. Elizalde is a digital noise musician and performance artist working primarily in the Boston area. She is grown from radical cyborg and mestiza politics. Her work seeks to imagine a perverse but liberated future as it will have emerged from within the broken pieces of our shared present. By working within and between various borders policed by the agents of racial capitalism she becomes a mystic nature digitalized. Documentations of her work can be found on her youtube channel (Dani J. Elizalde) and future performances are often announced on her instagram account (@dani.the.j).