Matthew Ryals + Stephan Haluska / Lunar Slopes (Arrien Zinghini & Jeff) / Paloma Kop (visuals)
Wednesday, Aug. 21, 8-10:30pm
$12-20 sliding scale
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The Avalon Lounge
29 Church St
Catskill, NY
Matthew Ryals (he, him) is a synthesist, composer, improviser, & educator based in Brooklyn, NY. His music explores improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, and unfixed forms & release formats. His uniquely tactile approach to the modular synthesizer embraces unusual & extended techniques. Recent accolades include receiving a ’22-’23 New Music USA Award & ’21 IEA Electronic Media Residency. Matthew has released on Oxtail Recordings, sound as language, SØVN, 3OP, dingn\dents, & other labels. He’s the co-curator of the Brooklyn-based experimental music series, Artifact.
Upcoming LP on Infrequent Seams
New release “Generative Etudes Vol 3.0” on SØVN
Cleveland-based harpist, improviser, and composer, Stephan Haluska (he/they) draws from the instrument’s unique textural, percussive, and physical qualities. Through an advanced vocabulary of extended techniques, preparations, and electronics, Stephan seeks new ways to expand his sound palette, as heard on releases on Infrequent Seams and Constellation Tatsu. As managing director, Stephan leads Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP), dedicated to strengthening the artistic engagement of the Northeast Ohio community by championing the creation and performance of new and experimental music. Stephan is on faculty at Case Western Reserve University, where he teaches digital music composition.
Album “Crop Circles” with Robert Dick on Infrequent Seams
Forthcoming Release, Geometer with Tim Daisy
Live Video with Robert Dick at Convivium 33 Gallery
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ABOUT PALOMA KOP (they/them)
I am an experimental multimedia artist, ambient musician, and creative technologist from the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. My practice incorporates electronic media, from analog video and synthesizers to digital systems and code, as well as various physical materials and processes. I am especially interested in feedback loops, recursion, self-organizing and emergent structures, patterns in nature, psychedelia, and embodied sensory experience.
https://palomakop.tv/