CUSP Presents: Binary Canary // Skunk Wook Percussion Ensemble

Saturday, April 6
Convivium 33 Gallery, 1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, Music 8PM

$15 recommended donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds

Binary Canary
Ted Moore electronics and Kyle Hutchins saxophone

saccades, a new work for saxophone, tape, & video is performed by Binary Canary, an electroacoustic/improvisation/multimedia duo consisting of electronicist Ted Moore (Yale School of Music) and saxophonist Kyle Hutchins (Virginia Tech University). Their work together since 2013 includes a wide range of free and structured music with interactive multimedia. The duo will also perform some free improvisation using audio feedback inside resonant metallic objects.

Ted Moore (he / him) is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist whose work fuses sonic, visual, physical, and acoustic elements, often incorporating technology to create immersive, multidimensional experiences. After completing a PhD in Music Composition at the University of Chicago, Ted served as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Creative Coding at the University of Huddersfield as part of the ERC-funded FluCoMa project, where he investigated the creative potential of machine learning algorithms and taught workshops on how artists can use machine learning in their creative music practice.

Kyle Hutchins is an internationally acclaimed performing artist and improviser. As a specialist in experimental performance practice and electroacoustic new music, Kyle has performed well over 200 world premieres of new works for the saxophone. He has worked with some of the leading composers and performers of our time including Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, Georges Aperghis, Richard Barrett, Steven Takasugi, Claire Chase, Douglas Ewart, Duo Gelland, and Zeitgeist.

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Skunk Wook Percussion Ensemble

Skunk Wook Percussion Ensemble is the collaborative free improvisation duo between drummers Jayson Gerycz and J Guy Laughlin. After crossing paths for years in the Cleveland experimental/improv scene the two paired up to play a house show in 2014. Over the past decade Skunk Wook has performed on numerous events in the Cleveland area as a duo, and expanded as a trio or quartet with musicians such as Bbob Drake, Noah Depew, and Ben Billington. For this performance the percussion ensemble will feature Chicago-based musician Ben Billington.